“The world isn’t doing well in averting global ecological collapse,” says Dr Florian Rabitz, a chief researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, the author of a new monograph Transformative Novel Technologies and Global Environmental Governance recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, chemical pollution, and more threaten the Earth’s future. Despite decades of international agreements and countless high-level summits, success in forestalling this existential crisis has remained elusive, says Dr Rabitz.
In his new monograph, the KTU researcher delves into the intersection of cutting-edge technological solutions and the global environmental crisis. The author explores how international institutions respond (or fail to respond) to high-impact technologies that have been the subject of extensive debate and controversy.
The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities of Kaunas University of Technology invites all faculty members, students, and guests interested in political science to a free open lecture: “Technological fixes for the global environmental crisis?”.
During the lecture, Dr Florian Rabitz will introduce his new book and will discuss the issues presented there.
The lecture will be in English on 23 November from 16:00 to 17:30 in room 213.
