A steady decrease in work hours within developed societies could have a positive impact on reducing greenhouse gas emission, a recent study suggests. David Rosnick of the Center for Economic and Policy Research finds connection between working less and combatting climate change:
This paper estimates the impact on climate change of reducing work hours over the rest of the century by an annual average of 0.5 percent. It finds that such a change in work hours would eliminate about one-quarter to one-half of the global warming that is not already locked in (i.e. warming that would be caused by 1990 levels of greenhouse gas concentrations already in the atmosphere).
However, the reduction of paid labour working hours only seems to make sense within the scenario of a post-growth society.
You may find the paper for download here.
The Hydro Nation PhD Scholars Programme of The Scottish Government is now open. It offers 4 year scholarships to support research feeding into the Scottish Government agenda regarding the themes: Valuing Water, Water Governance, Water and Energy and Catchment Management. The annual stipend for these studentships will be £14,850 (running for 4 years), with up to £15,000 per year for University fees.
If you know of any good candidate interested in pursuing a PhD in Transboundary Water Management (Water Governance), with special emphasis in (but not only) Transboundary Aquifers Governance feel free to put her/him in touch with me. Potentially the candidate working with me could also be working with colleagues based in Scotland such as Prof. Robert Kalin, Professor of Environmental Engineering for Sustainability at the University of Strathclyde and Dr Alistair Rieu Clarke, Reader in International Law at the IHE-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science at the University of Dundee..
You can find further information about my research interests and past work, as well as that of my colleagues at the following pages:
http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/courses/law/staff/sindicofrancescodr/ and http://works.bepress.com/fsindico/
Robert Kalin http://www.strath.ac.uk/civeng/staff/robertkalin/
Alistair Rieu Clarke http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/staff/staff/alistairrieu-clarke/
The deadline for applications is 28th February 2013.
Further information on the scheme including application forms can be found at http://www.crew.ac.uk/funding/hydro-nation-phd-scholars-programme-2013.
Publishing Research in Sustainable Change since 2012.
