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30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
School of Law
Robin Churchill spoke at two conferences in November to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. On 15 November he gave a paper at a conference in Porto, Portugal on the impact of fisheries on the marine environment; and on 22 November he gave a paper at a conference in Belfast on the exploitation of the outer continental shelf. Further information on the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea can be viewed here....
Congratulations to Professor Andrea Ross!
College of Arts & Social Sciences
Professor Andrea Ross, School of Law, and Professor Rhys Jones at Aberystwyth University have been successful obtaining funding from the AHRC for their project ‘National Sustainabilities’. It is worth £40,000 (FEC) in total and half of this will come to the University of Dundee. The project will examine the productive connections and tensions between nationalist discourses and discourses of sustainability in Scotland and in Wales. The project uses two case studies, one based in Wales (the move towards a single environmental body) and one in Scotland. The Scottish case study is centred on t...
Professor Cameron provides testimony at House of Lords
Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management
Professor Peter Cameron was invited to provide testimony to a House of Lords sub-committee on EU Energy Policy as part of its examination of issues of low carbon and economic competitiveness. On 28th November, he answered a number of questions concerning contracts and investment, energy security and competition, as well as interconnectors and the impact of the next enlargements on EU energy policy. He was critical of the current increase in state intervention in energy markets in the UK and of the projected large budget increases in the EU for new interconnectors, arguing that a better management of ...
Accounting for the Social Cost of Coal
College of Arts & Social Sciences
'Accounting for the Social Cost of Coal' Professor Mark Squillace, University of Colorado Wednesday 5 December 2012, 3pm Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee No resource is as important to the world energy supply as coal. As of 2005 coal was responsible for 40% of electric power generation worldwide and, until recently, coal-fired power plants in the United States produced 50% of the nation's electricity. Despite it's historic dominance however, coal has l...
Do you want to tell the world about your work?
College of Arts & Social Sciences
Then this BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) initiative to find the next generation of public intellectuals working in the arts and humanities is for you. Together they are looking for emerging academics from the arts and humanities who are currently in UK universities and who have a passion for communicating the excitement of modern scholarship to a wider audience, through broadcasting. The scheme has been running for two years now. The first New Generation Thinkers, made front page news. ...