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📣 Participate to the workshop "Urban Heat Island and critical environmental thresholds: comparing the Singapore and the Ile-de-France Region" : bit.ly/3TzwZgi 📅 September 25th -27th 📌 Programme and registration: bit.ly/3TzwZgi Urban warming is expected to increase in the context of climate change, with dramatic effects on urban social and natural ecosystems. Bringing together a diverse range of disciplines, with scientist from both the academic and the policy fields, in Singapore and the Paris Ile-de-France Region, this Merlion workshop aims at examining how the Urban Heat Island phenomenon has been approached by science and policymakers, in the process of attuning the experimental findings to the imperatives brought by climate change and city life. It does so by comparing two large metropolitan areas, Singapore and Paris Ile de France region. A workshop organized by NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI)) and LIEPP’s environmental policies research group (Sciences Po, Université Paris Cité) with the support of the 2024 PHC Merlion programme and in partnership with the Institute for Environment and Sustainability - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy(NUS) and the Centre des Politiques de la Terre. #climatechange #publicpolicies #urbanheatislands #workshop #evaluation #environmentalpolicies #Singapour #IledeFrance #research #policies #environment Sciences Po Research École de la recherche de Sciences Po Quadrant Conseil Université Paris 8 Société Française de l'Evaluation European Evaluation Society (EES) European Evaluation Academy LIED (UMR 8236) EHESP - École des hautes études en santé publique University of Lausanne - UNIL GDR ClimaLex Climate Change Law Research Network. France & International.

Dear colleagues teaching security studies, IR or nuclear weapons policy or nuclear history in the Fall, training journalists or diplomats on those issues, here are five findings based on the NK team's research and teaching, which I hope will be useful as you prepare for class. 1) Our students always have a hard time grasping and staying with the scale of potential nuclear harm. We have designed this 63 second video thanks to Lyndon Burford, PhD which helps them grasp it. Subtitles are available in 18 languages https://lnkd.in/duEhhPS 2) On the scoping of nuclear weapons policy choices, beyond realism, liberalism and constructivism, here are four recent open access pieces of scholarship emphasizing the constitutive role of imagined futures, lessons from the past and categories used to shape available policy options. https://lnkd.in/dmxNWJH6 https://lnkd.in/d9_QWmuU https://lnkd.in/df7ubQUy https://lnkd.in/dKZ87hyd and a video lecture articulating them https://lnkd.in/de9Vd8RT 3) Regardless of whether you teach traditional or critical security studies, the role of luck in avoiding unwanted nuclear explosions so far is now established. You can include it in lessons on "explaining non-use" alongside deterrence, taboo and tradition explanations. Below are two of the open access pieces we have on the subject. https://lnkd.in/duG5nyar https://lnkd.in/dRhzS-hZ Others are available here https://lnkd.in/guufFhu3 4) If you focus on nuclear harm and nuclear injustices, please do not assume that acknowledging the role of luck in avoiding unwanted nuclear explosions means overlooking the unlucky and actual nuclear harm. Addressing nuclear injustices requires acknowledging luck as well as nuclear harm. And as a matter of fact, the team has done both, thanks to Sébastien Philippe's work on the consequences of testing in Polynesia. For a methodological proposition on how not to minimize either luck or actual nuclear harm, see this https://lnkd.in/dKUC-h8b 5) Kjølv Egeland's book The Struggle for Abolition—on the history of multilateral nuclear disarmament initiatives from the 1960s till today is now available open access here thanks to funding from European Research Council (ERC) for the NUCLEAR project. https://lnkd.in/dqhYb8a3 The hardcopy will be available in a month Do send us relevant material for the Spring! Arnaud Kurze Anthony Burke Thomas Fraise Hebatalla Taha Debak Das Sciences Po - CERI Corinne Deloy Jacques Hymans Didier Bigo Todd Robinson Philippe Bédos Ulvin Atomic Reporters Thomas Tari Dr. Olaf Corry Jeffrey Knopf Cohen, Avner Sharad Joshi Beatrice Heuser Masako Toki Cecile Wendling (PhD) 💡 Christian Bueger Fabiana Pierre Stéphanie BALME (鲍佳佳) Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress Fred Wehling Frédéric Mérand Valeriia Hesse Christopher Lawrence Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium Klélya Mathez

[A post in French and English / Une entrée bilingue français/anglais] 79 years ago, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by one atomic bomb. In the 2020s, this is the destructive capacity of existing nuclear arsenals in comparison. https://lnkd.in/duEhhPS Il y a 79 ans, la ville d'Hiroshima a été détruite par une bombe atomique. Dans les années 2020, voici la capacité de destruction des arsenaux nucléaires existants en comparaison (dans une vidéo de 60 secondes avec des sous-titres en 17 langues. N'hésitez pas à la diffuser) Citizens' understandings of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are correlated with their preferred nuclear and international security policy preferences in Europe https://lnkd.in/dkC5bnC and in the Middle East https://lnkd.in/dcWpeMS4 https://lnkd.in/dMWPeqYB https://lnkd.in/eEmEVBs3 La recherche a montré que la compréhension que les citoyens ont de cet événement est corrélée avec leurs préférences en matière de politique nucléaires et de sécurité internationale. Ce résultat vaut en Europe et au Moyen-Orient https://lnkd.in/d-bgMm5 Sciences Po - CERI Miriam Perier Klélya Mathez Sciences Po Alumni Lyndon Burford, PhD Kjølv Egeland Anita Perez Emmanuel Kattan