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Meaning of Sustainable Development in Early UNFCCC Negotiations

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Introduction to the Workshop: Societial approaches to deal with environmental problems

Societial approaches to deal with environmental problems

by Ingmar Lippert

A: Sustaining capitalist aims within politics
- Overview on political strategies
- Frames of problems / social constructions: from red-green and progressive development discourses to sustainable development
B: Social engineering/technological approach: from end-of-pipe to EM (ecological modernisation)
- (Social) engineering/technology
- Policy discourse

Ingmar Lippert

Initiator and Founding member of the Environment, Management and Society Research Group.


Since August 2012, Ingmar Lippert is contributing to the cluster of STS and Climate Change researchers at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore and is member of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences' STS Cluster. Focused on Science and Technology Studies, Ingmar did his PhD Enacting Environments on Agents of Ecological Modernisation and their practices of enacting carbon emission realities supervised by the Chair for Sociology, Christoph Lau, of Augsburg University (Germany) and Lucy Suchman from Lancaster University's Centre for Science Studies. He did his undergraduate studies at Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and Bosporus University (Turkey) and graduated in Environmental and Resource Management.

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