[gep-ed] Tenure Track position ANU

[Christian Downie]

Dear all,

This research intensive tenure track position at the Australian National 
University may be of interest. One of our core research areas is climate and 
energy governance.

http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/529234/braithwaite-research-fellow-fellow

Cheers
Christian

Christian Downie, PhD
Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow
School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)
The Australian National University | Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Email: christian.dow...@anu.edu.au | Phone: 
+61 2 6125 4438 | Website: http://christiandownie.com/

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[gep-ed] FW: SPRU are recruiting Lecturers in Public Policy, Innovation Studies, and Sustainable Development

[Benjamin Sovacool]

Hello all, forwarding on behalf of Marion.  Do consider coming to join us in 
colourful Brighton!

From: Marion Clarke 
Sent: 15 April 2019 17:02
To: spr...@sussex.ac.uk
Subject: [Sprurs] SPRU are recruiting Lecturers

Dear all
Please circulate through your networks  - SPRU are recruiting 3 lecturers, in 
Public Policy, Project Management with Innovation Studies, and Sustainable 
Development
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/lecturer-in-public-policy-ref-0956
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/lecturer-project-management-ref-0958
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/lecturer-in-sustainable-development-ref-0949
thanks
Marion

Dr Marion Clarke
Research Unit Manager
Science Policy Research Unit
University of Sussex Business School
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9SL, UK

Phone: (+44) (0)1273 877153
Email: m.s.cla...@sussex.ac.uk
Web: www.sussex.ac.uk/spru



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[gep-ed] No more Hoover dams: Hydropowered countries suffer higher levels of poverty, corruption and debt

[Benjamin Sovacool]

Greetings all,

With apologies for any cross postings, I wanted to share a stream of research 
that has been a long time in the making. We in the energy and electricity 
community of scholars often talk about wind and solar energy, and those of us 
in the energy and development community talk about the importance of biomass 
and cookstoves. However, as many of you know, hydropower is the world's biggest 
source of renewable electricity, by far, it even surpasses global generation 
from nuclear power. Hydropower is also expected to grow significantly in the 
coming decades, and many countries (Australia, China, Malaysia, the DRC) have 
announced or embarked on building mega-dams to meet increases in energy demand.

Yet, this pursuit of hydropower has its risks, and Goetz Walter, Kathleen 
Hancock, and I have been trying to more systematically expose and analyse them. 
 The most recent of these efforts is a quantitative analysis of how hydropower 
states perform on key metrics compared to other states, published this week in 
Review of International Political Economy.  An earlier paper with Kathleen was 
more qualitative, and published in International Studies Review, talked more 
about resource curse theory and small case studies. Citations for the two 
articles are here, and I am happy to share them by request (though the RIPE one 
is fully open access):


· Hancock, K and BK Sovacool. "International Political Economy and 
Renewable Energy: Hydroelectric Power and the Resource Curse," International 
Studies Review 20(4) (December, 2018), pp. 615-632.

· Sovacool, BK and G Walter. "Internationalizing the political economy 
of hydroelectricity: Security, development, and sustainability in hydropower 
states," Review of International Political Economy 26(1) (Winter, 2019), pp. 
49-79.

You can also see the press release for the most recent RIPE article below. 
However, we are only scratching the surface and would certainly welcome future 
research in this space.

With best wishes but also hopes that this will motivate many others to begin to 
examine hydropower too,

Benjamin

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/all?id=48423

No more Hoover dams: Hydropowered countries suffer higher levels of poverty, 
corruption and debt

[https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/images/uploads/2019/04/10377.item.jpg]

Huge hydropower projects like the Hoover Dam in the US could become a relic of 
the past because of their huge financial and environmental costs

Countries relying on the world's biggest and most established source of 
renewable electricity have seen their poverty, corruption and debt levels rise 
and their economy slow at significantly greater rates than nations which use 
other energy resources over the last three decades, a major new study has found.

The study also found that hydropower states did not suffer from a hydroelectric 
resource curse and did not see an increase in internal conflict to any 
significant degree while carbon reduction benefits were realised only over time 
after the initial environmental impact of construction.

The financial benefits of major hydropower projects could also take decades to 
emerge, the study published today in The Review of International Political 
Economy 
found.

The new study by the University of Sussex and the International School of 
Management in Germany compared the security, political governance, economic 
development and climate change performance of major hydropower states against 
oil-producing and all other countries using 30 years of World Bank data.

Lead author Professor Benjamin 
Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy 
at the Science Policy Research Unit at the 
University of Sussex, said the era of the awe-inspiring mega hydropower 
projects such as the Hoover Dam in the US and The Three Gorges in China should 
be coming to an end in favour of smaller projects.

He added: "Even though hydropower might not bring immediate and 
all-encompassing benefits to a country, it is still a vital source of renewable 
energy."

In the most rigorous comparative study of its kind, researchers took a global 
approach that compared national portfolios of hydroelectric infrastructure 
where previous research has almost entirely focused on the impacts of 
individual dams or river basins. Additionally, whereas previous research tended 
to examine only hydropower states, this study compared hydropower countries 
with OPEC members and non-hydropower states.

The report's authors, Prof Sovacool and Dr Götz Walter, say the report should 
be food for thought for major institutions such as the World Bank, currently 
calling for substantial and global investment in hydropower as a means towards 
international development. They add it is a warning to the cheerleaders of 
major projects such as the Grand Inga Dam in the Democratic