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Apologies for cross-posting Dear all, we are delighted to invite you to the international conference Green Geographies of Evaluation and Devaluation. It will be held in hybrid format (physical and online) at the University of Leicester on May 15, 2023 Lecture Theatre 5, Bennett Building, University Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK An Eventbrite invite for remote participation is available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-conference-green-geographies-of-evaluation-and-de-valuation-tickets-624564779067 [https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F501361619%2F172114349468%2F1%2Foriginal.20230426-131702?w=1000&auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&rect=28%2C0%2C1358%2C679&s=0adb5299fe0cb34ba63ab481402c2067]<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-conference-green-geographies-of-evaluation-and-de-valuation-tickets-624564779067> International Conference: Green Geographies of Evaluation and De-valuation<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-conference-green-geographies-of-evaluation-and-de-valuation-tickets-624564779067> Hybrid conference confronting the tensions and struggles surrounding the emerging uneven geographies of climate governance. www.eventbrite.co.uk Green Geographies of Evaluation and Devaluation | Hybrid international conference, May 15th, University of Leicester As global environmental agendas gain momentum and new ‘green’ financial geographies rise to prominence, political economists and economic geographers have started engaging intensively with the legal and financial dimensions of ‘green’ urban governance and its uneven impacts on economic and socio-spatial arrangements in cities and regions. Research around low-carbon transitions has shown that negative externalities are not unusual in the wake of ecological transitions: as capital flows are being spent on aggressively pursuing low-carbon alternatives, these investment open the road for a host of environmental and socioeconomic benefits, but also for a concurrent avalanche of disruptive changes, creating new speculative geographies of investment as much as new urban spaces of urban shrinkage, devaluation and decline. Confronting the tensions and struggles surrounding the emerging uneven geographies of climate governance is essential to develop an informed scholarship that reflects on the innovations and opportunities of a low-carbon future, while not failing to recognize the major challenges ahead. This conference draws together scholars from across all fields and from a range of career stages to engage with theoretical development and empirical analysis of the many place-based ramifications of climate finance and ecological transitions, and of their socioeconomic impacts on residents, businesses and communities. The conference will examine the following questions: How do processes of green evaluations and de-valuations play out in the urban space? How do these tendencies materialize into urban rural and industrial geographies? How are civic groups mobilizing and resisting against those emerging urban inequalities? What policies and politics can support more just urban futures? MORNING SESSION: Green Geographies of E-valuation 09:15 – 09:30 Alessandro Busà, University of Leicester: Introduction to the conference Geographies of climate finance and housing retrofit 09:30 – 10.15 Stefan Bouzarovski, University of Manchester: The financialisation of low-carbon transformations: problematizing mass housing renovation programmes 10:15 – 11:00 Melissa Garcia Lamarca, Polytechnic of Turin: Plan de choque for whom? Emerging configurations and impacts of green housing renovation in Catalonia 11:00 – 11:15: COFFEE BREAK Geographies of green value capture, enclosure and extraction 11:15 – 12:00 Natacha Bruna, Observatório do Meio Rural: Understanding Green Extractivism: financialization and nature appropriation in Mozambique 12:00 – 12:45 Zac Taylor, TU Delft: Urbanizing Risk Capital: South Florida Hurricane Insurance and the Making of Singapore's Catastrophe Finance Hub 13:00 – 14:00: LUNCH _______________________________________________ AFTERNOON SESSION: Green Geographies of De-valuation AFTERNOON SESSION: Green Geographies of De-valuation New geographies of urban obsolescence 14:15 – 15.00 Benjamin K. Sovacool, Boston University: Climate justice and elite power in low-carbon transitions 15:00 – 15:45 Kevin Muldoon-Smith, Northumbria University: Unravelling fossil fuel based stranded assets in the built environment Deindustrialization and “just” transitions, resource exploitation for a green economy 16:00 – 16.45 Aparajita Banerjee, University College Dublin: “No windfarms without a just transition”: feelings of injustice evoking negative emotional responses towards wind projects in Irish peatland communities Closing Keynote: 16:45 – 17.15 Sarah Knuth, Durham University: Speculative De- and Revaluation in a Climate-Changed Future Final discussion: experts panel 17:15 – 17.45 with Loretta Lees (Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University), Isabelle Anguelovski (Director, BCNUEJ, ICTA/UAB Barcelona), Matthew Wilde (Anthropologist and Lecturer, University of Leicester) Funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and University of Leicester With BCNUEJ, Boston University Full conference program: https://www.susteus.com/conference2023 Best wishes, Alessandro Dr. Alessandro Busà Postdoctoral Researcher School of Geology, Geography and the Environment University of Leicester University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom <https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-New-York-City/dp/0190610093/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475682882&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Creative+Destruction+of+new+york> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> MSCA GLOBAL FELLOW RESEARCH PROJECT SUSTEUS [cid:9562e18e-8fb0-40b4-a4d0-d7d581368f81] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CRIT-GEOG-FORUM, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/