SemÉcol : The Search for Sustainable Solutions: Cuba’s ‘Tarea Vida’
**En raison d’un imprévu, ce SemÉcol initialement prévu pour le 25 mars est reporté à une date ultérieure**
Cuba et sa politique écologique seront le sujet de ce séminaire qui se tiendra à la Maison des Associations, 93 La Canebière, Marseille
**Ce SemÉcol se tiendra en anglais**
**This conference will be given in English**
Helen Yaffe, senior Lecturer (economic and social history, School of Social and Political Sciences) at the University of Glasgow, will discuss Cuba’s environmental history, the shift towards sustainable development and the long-term state plan to confront climate change, known as Tarea Vida (Life Task). The talk will discuss the specific historical and political economy characteristics which explain Cuba’s needs, and its capacity, for environmental sustainability and climate resilience. The distinctive features of Tarea Vida are: that the state assumes responsibility; policy is led science; cost-effective ecosystem-adaptation is favoured; flexibility is built in; community mobilisation and participation are pivotal; adaptation and mitigation are integrated into a broader process of transition to more decentralised sustainable development.
The debate will be conducted by Païkan Marcaggi, from the Atécopolam.
Helen Yaffe is the author of the two following books.
Che Guevara: the Economics of Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
We Are Cuba: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2020).
She is also co-author with Gavin Brown of the book “Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid” and co-produced two documentaries Cuba and Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Society, DaniFilms, 2020, Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change, DaniFilms, 2021, both freely available on youtube.
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paikanmarcaggi (15 février 2024). SemÉcol : The Search for Sustainable Solutions: Cuba’s ‘Tarea Vida’. Atecopol Aix-Marseille. Consulté le 18 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/vuhr