{"id":2282,"date":"2023-10-24T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:15:46","slug":"mpa-faculty-larry-geri-attends-strn-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/mpa-faculty-larry-geri-attends-strn-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA Faculty Larry Geri Attends STRN Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW61261696 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW61261696 BCX0\">Larry Geri attended the 14th\u00a0annual International Sustainability Transitions conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands from August 30th\u00a0to September 1st<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW61261696 BCX0\">, 2023, and chaired a panel on the political and social implications of sustainability transitions<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW61261696 BCX0\">.\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW61261696 BCX0\">During the panel he gave a presentation on his paper titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/353\/2023\/10\/L-Geri-Populist-Authoritarianism-and-Sust-Transitions-July-2023-final-revised-11-30-23.pdf\">Does Populist-Authoritarianism Pose a Threat to Sustainability Transitions?<\/a>\u201d The main takeaway from the paper is that while the weak authoritarian leaders in the two cases examined, Mexico and the U.S.,\u00a0 tend to associate fossil fuels with national greatness, and emphasize what they claim are the high costs and complexity of renewable energy, we need more data on how authoritarian leaders engage these transitions.\u00a0 (India, for example, has invested massively in renewable energy).\u00a0\u00a0This conference is organized annually by the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN), a research organization with over 1500 member researchers who consider questions of how the transition to sustainability can succeed through co-evolutionary changes and innovations in socio-technical systems.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW61261696 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"> Learn more about STRN and future conferences <a href=\"https:\/\/transitionsnetwork.org\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Geri attended the 14th\u00a0annual International Sustainability Transitions conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands from August 30th\u00a0to September 1st, 2023, and chaired a panel on the political and social implications of sustainability transitions.\u00a0 During the panel he gave a presentation on&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/mpa-faculty-larry-geri-attends-strn-conference\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9454,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}