September
Security and resilience in global urban areas
Florian Roth, Senior Researcher with the Risk and Resilience Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH visited the ISTP on September 27th 2017 and spoke about future challenges regarding mapping social vulnerability in Switzerland.
“Blockchain has been hyped up”
(Repost from ETH News) ETH Professor Roger Wattenhofer discusses how blockchain, bitcoin and digitalisation may affect our society.
Becoming the CERN of urban planning
(Repost from ETH news) The Future Cities Lab (FCL) in Singapore tackles concrete problems that will only become a reality in temperate climate zones such as Switzerland in the future.
Future challenges for mobility in highly urbanized systems
Pieter Fourie from the Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Singapore visited the ISTP on September 15th 2017 and spoke about future challenges for mobility in highly urbanized systems and how science and politics can deal with them.
CO2-free mobility: (how) is that possible?
(Repost from ETH news) Right now, everyone is talking about mobility, how it ought to be CO2 -neutral and clean. Yet how do we get there? Banning combustion engines, changing how we usually get around or gradually shifting towards electric vehicles – the ideal path is not exactly clear.
PhD position - Green Economy / Environmental Politics
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to join our newly developed Swiss Minerals Observatory research team and examine the interaction of voluntary environmental initiatives in the private sector and governmental environmental policy-making.