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What do cities and cells have in common? Quite a lot, it seems, when you listen to Geoffrey West’s compelling arguments that show how scaling laws and mechanisms can draw connections between systems at all levels. Geoffrey West, an associate fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, used his talk in the 21st Century School seminar series to highlight the tension between …
A new interdisciplinary journal called Global Policy has launched its first issue with an article by Dr Ian Goldin, co-written with research assistant Tiffany Vogel. Their paper, entitled, "Global Governance and Systemic Risk in the 21st Century", conceptualises systemic risk in the 21st century and examines the challenges it poses to global governance regimes. As they …
UPDATE: Videos now available online. As the world becomes ever more complex and interdependent, the challenges of managing global commons, such as the environment, or the global financial system, are more urgent than ever before. As the World Economic Forum's 40th Annual Meeting gets underway in Davos, a delegation of Oxford academics, including 21st Century School Director Dr Ian Goldin and …
By continuing to test and "future-proof" individual banks without considering the resilience of the financial system as a whole, we run the risk of repeating the same mistakes that led to the recent financial crisis. That is the message from "Beyond the Financial Crisis", a study led by Dr Angela Wilkinson from the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (part of the …
Geoengineering is a new and rapidly developing area of science and technology. Proposals range from placing giant mirrors in space to reflect sunlight, to fertilising the oceans with nutrients in order to soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide. On Tuesday 19 January Professor Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and a co-author of the Royal Society's recent …
In spite of recent improvements in the technical efficiency and fuel economy of new cars, total CO2 emissions from private vehicles within the UK are not decreasing as quickly as policy makers had hoped. The latest in our new series of 21School Briefings highlights the vital role that consumer choice has to play in helping the UK to meet its greenhouse gas emissions targets. A lack of consumer …