November
ISTP4Public New Video: Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods - The case of Accra and Johannesburg
The global COVID-19 pandemic is manifesting differently in every country. The new video of our "ISTP4Public" series sheds light on how the urban poor mitigated their risk of infection in Accra and Johannesburg at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak. Researchers Antoinette van der Merwe from the Swiss Minerals Observatory and Kathrin Durizzo from the Development Economics Group talk about their research's main findings and the policy implications.
Apply to the Impact Collaboration Programme 2021 of the Geneva Science-Policy Interface
Under the theme Bridging science and policy to foster systemic resilience, the Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI) calls for projects for its Impact Collaboration Programme 2021. The deadline for the pre-proposals is January 17, 2021.
ISTP Colloquium: Public Attitudes and Policy Preferences Concerning 5G - Results from the Swiss Environmental Panel
In our upcoming colloquium talk, ISTP Director Prof. Thomas Bernauer, Dr. Lukas Rudolph & Franziska Quoss from the CIS present the first results from the fifth wave of the Swiss Environmental Panel focusing on 5G, the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks. They also shed light on whether consumer/citizen concern or acceptance of 5G is contingent on the location of 5G antennas and on what policies citizens prefer with respect to 5G.
“We have to consider all sectors of mobility”
(Re-post from ETH News) The ETH Zurich & Swiss federal railways (SBB) mobility initiative launched in 2018 is gaining momentum. Konstantinos Boulouchos, the driving force behind the project, explains how far things have come since then and in which direction the initiative is set to develop.
Global Economic Governance Seminar Series: ISTP Director Thomas Bernauer talks about the relation between International Trade and Environment
Public opinion is a crucial driver of trade policy, and environmental considerations are playing an increasing role in this area. Prof. Bernauer will examine whether and how citizens consider environmental concerns when forming opinions about trade and trade policy. The seminar takes place online on Tuesday, 17th November 2020, at 4.15 pm. It is offered within the framework of the Global Economic Governance Seminar Series.
ISTP Colloquium: War Did Make States - Testing Tilly’s Thesis
In our upcoming colloquium talk, Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman, from the Center for Comparative and International Studies, investigates the influence of war on European states' territorial expansion. The starting point of his research is Charles Tilly's classical claim that "war made states." Prof. Cederman elaborates on state expansion's logic after testing the "bellicist" thesis by aligning historical data on European state borders with conflict data.