Building back better: interconnected challenges

The ongoing post-Covid transition requires more inclusive and regenerative economies, which offer a more inclusive and sustainable vision of people, prosperity and planet. This event asks how do we connect the challenges of - and responses to - intersecting inequalities, enabling people to equitably finance the lives they wish to live while working within planetary ecological boundaries? How can we foster existing practices and systems, and develop new ones, to create broader forms of care for our human and non-human worlds?

Expert speakers will foreground exciting research and initiatives they are currently involved in to rethink and reshape 'building back better'. All attendees are then invited to discuss how we work towards this and with each other.

Programme

13:00: Introduction & welcome
Christopher Harker, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL 
Rebecca Bowers, Anthropology, LSE

13:10: Provocations
Enora Robin, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
Andrew Percy, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
Ilona Otto, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz
The Covid and Care Research Group, Department of Anthropology, LSE

13:50: Discussion

14:30: Close

Hosted by the Financing Prosperity Network at IGP and the COVID and Care Research Group at LSE