Substainable development of steel and aluminium

What can a comparative approach teach us about the major challenges of ‘sustainable development’? A panel of international researchers will address these questions from economic, social and political, as well as technical and environmental, perspectives.

Working languages: English and French.

Program:

February 06, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Introduction 
Philippe Mioche, Aix Marseille Université, Anne Dalmasso, Université Grenoble Alpes

1- Economic history
Presidence and discussion : Dominique Barjot, Sorbonne Université, Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des sciences d'outre-mer

Jean-Michel Minovez, Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès, France “Limiter les émissions de fluor dans les usines d’électrolyse de Pechiney au XXe siècle : recherche d’économie ou préoccupation environnementale ?”

Yun ZHAI, Maître de conférences, Yanshan University, China, "Chinese Steel Industry and Sustainable Development Policies Since 1978"

Brad Cross, Professor of History and Department Chair at St. Thomas University, Canada, “Confronting environmental disruption at the Kitimat aluminum smelter in British Columbia (Canada)”

Sandra Bott, Université de Lausanne, Sabine Pitteloud, UniDistance, Suisse, “The aluminium industry and the environment: tackling industrial pollution in Switzerland, Scotland and Norway, 1890-2000”

Simon Lobach, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, "Decarbonization in the Aluminium Industry : We Haven't Even Started"
 

February 07, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
2- Political and social history
Presidence and discussion, Philippe Mioche, Aix Marseille Université

Olivier Chatterji, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, “Alternating phases of Environmental Conflict and Conflict resolution in the Aluminium Industry. ThePechiney Case in the Maurienne valley and beyond 1905-2015”

Mauve Carbonell, Aix Marseille Université, France, "Alumine et environnement en Europe, les conflits autour du stockage des boues rouges des usines d'Aughinish (Irlande) et Stade (Allemagne), années 1970-2000".

Ángel Sanjuán-Ruiz, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain, « Energy efficiency, consumption, and CO2 emissions in the Spanish iron and steel sector from 1860 to 1960 »

Dimitri Zurstrassen, Université Luiss Guido Carli à Rome, Italie, “The European Commission and the decarbonization of the steel industry (1974-today)”
 

February 07, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
3- Technical and environmental history
Presidence and discussion : Anne Dalmasso, Université Grenoble Alpes

Marco Bertilorenzi, Associate professor in economic and business history at the University of Padua, Italy, “Organising the recycling business. The secondary aluminium producers organisations in Europe, 1950s-2000s

Samuel Klebaner, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord , France, "The conflictual ecological transition of the French steel industry"

Round table : moderated by Anne Dalmasso, Université Grenoble Alpes and Philippe Mioche, Aix Marseille Université
Jean-Pierre Birat, consultant, ancien directeur du programme “ULCOS, Ultra Low CO2 Steelmaking”
Sylvie Fraisse, general manager R&D de Rio Tinto
Pierre Meynard, Président de l'Institut pour l'histoire de l'aluminium