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🌍 Green industrial policy: balancing national goals and global integration
As part of LSE Festival 2026, this panel brings together leading voices from academia, policy and industry to explore one of the most pressing questions in the transition to net zero.
🎟️ Free to attend: zurl.co/DYQpN
Achieving a sustainable energy future will require more than new infrastructure – it also depends on how we use electricity. Shefali Khanna’s research explores whether small, automated devices now being tested in Mumbai & Delhi could help drive the shifts in energy use required.⚡
zurl.co/5wvLJ
Join us on 15 June, with Antonio Ughi presenting his latest research, “Automation Diffusion: Firm-to-Firm Network Spillover and Industrial Policy” at the G&E Junior Applied Economics Seminar.
📩 For questions, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
🔜 On Thursday 11 June we welcome Adrian Smith (University of Sussex) to the Economic Geography and Spatial Economics Seminar Series.
If you wish to attend the seminar, please email [email protected]
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What should you read to understand sustainable economics today? 📚
Department faculty including Riccardo Crescenzi, Oliver Harman and Richard Perkins share their recommended books exploring climate, globalisation and economic transformation.
NEW: Post-war Syria and the violence of reconstruction.
A new book edited by Nasser Rabbat @mitpress.bsky.social and @deensharp.bsky.social @lsegeography.bsky.social examines and problematises processes of reconstruction in Syria following the 2011-2024 civil war.
Review by Firmanda Taufiq 👇
Why do derelict houses persist in urban areas despite strong demand, and what effects do they have on neighbourhoods? 🏠
This paper from Yuki Kanayama and Taisuke Sadayuki sheds light on a simple mechanism underlying this puzzle and quantifies their disamenity effects.
🔴 zurl.co/ori3m
🌍 Green industrial policy: balancing national goals and global integration
As part of LSE Festival 2026, this panel brings together leading voices from academia, policy and industry to explore one of the most pressing questions in the transition to net zero.
🎟️ Free to attend: zurl.co/DYQpN
The Iran war has exposed Britain’s off-grid energy blind spot.
With Britain’s off-grid residents made vulnerable a more resilient energy system is needed Shefali Khanna @lsegeography.bsky.social John Cui @granthamlse.bsky.social & Weiqi Hua @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
Reconstruction as Violence in Assad’s Syria edited by Nasser Rabbat and Deen Sharp problematises reconstruction processes in the state following the civil war.
Europe's green investment efforts have a blind spot.
Overemphasis on energy downplays the need to decarbonise sectors including steel, chemicals, automotive and construction.
LLMs can help, write @javilanova.bsky.social Riccardo Crescenzi @lsegeography.bsky.social and Lee Mager @lsebr.bsky.social
LSE Review of Books
The Iran conflict has created a global energy crisis and Britain's off-grid residents, not connected to natural gas, are especially exposed.
