CALL FOR PAPERS for RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2018, Tuesday 28 to Friday 31 August 2018, Cardiff University, Wales
'Climate adaptation as co-productive transformation: exploring the interfaces of science, policy and practice in multi-scalar contexts'
Session organisers:
Charlotte Ford, Cardiff University
Andrew Kythreotis, Universiti Brunei Darussalam & Cardiff University
Session Sponsor: Climate Change Research Group (CCRG)
In line with the overarching aim of the conference of changing landscapes of geography, this session will explore how the science, policy and practice of climate adaptation has/is becoming transformative in nature at different geographical scales of governance. The session is underpinned by established trans-disciplinary debates surrounding the multi-scalar governance and risks of climate adaptation (Adger et al., 2005; Juhola and Westerhoff., 2011; Huitema et al., 2016) and recent debates surrounding how moral reasoning and procedural justice can more politically legitimise adaptation responses (Pelling et al., 2015; Adger et al., 2017; Holland, 2017). In particular this session aims to explore scientific, policy and practice innovations, co-productions and barriers to transformative adaptation that coalesce at/or between international, national and local geographical scales.
What are the prevalent issues that enable or disable ‘adaptation as transformation’ at different geographical scales? How can (co-productive) pathways of adaptation as transformation be successfully planned and implemented between scales, given that the international scale is the dominant locus of climate policy creation (Purdon, 2015)? Are there particular innovative co-production methods that can be used to simultaneously catalyse increased citizen-centred engagement and greater ‘enabling’ governance in promoting pathways of adaptation as transformation under uncertainty (Wise et al., 2014)? Can adaptation responses be made and implemented through the lens of social reform and imminent radical systems change at all ‘levels’ of society’ (Berrang-Ford, 2011; Adger et al., 2013). If so, how can relevant actors working at different scales ensure adaptation risks are effectively communicated, governed and implemented at, across and between geographical scales, whilst taking account of social justice and moral reasoning?
In line with the above the session convenors welcome contributions on, but not limited to the following broad themes:
• The multi-scalar governance of climate change adaptation
• Climate change adaptation as transformation under uncertainty
• Situated and innovative methods and case studies of climate change adaptation response at the international, national and local scales.
• Climate change adaptation and citizen engagement that take account of moral reasoning and social justice issues.
The session will take the form of multiple paper presentations of 20 minutes, with a discussant (TBC) to draw together common themes/issues/barriers from all the papers presented.
Please send your abstracts of no more than 250 words to Charlotte Ford ([log in to unmask]) and Andrew Kythreotis ([log in to unmask]) by Wednesday 14th February 2018.
Charlotte Ford
School of Geography and Planning
Cardiff University
Andrew Kythreotis
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Institute of Policy Studies
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Adger, W.N., Arnell, N.W. and Tompkins, E.L., (2005). Successful adaptation to climate change across scales. Global environmental change, 15(2), pp.77-86.
Adger, W.N., Butler, C. and Walker-Springett, K., (2017). Moral reasoning in adaptation to climate
change. Environmental Politics, 26(3), pp.371-390.
Adger, W.N., Quinn, T., Lorenzoni, I., Murphy, C. and Sweeney, J., (2013). Changing social contracts in climate-change adaptation. Nature Climate Change, 3(4), pp.330-333.
Berrang-Ford, L., Ford, J.D. and Paterson, J., (2011). Are we adapting to climate change? Global environmental change, 21(1), pp.25-33.
Holland, B., (2017). Procedural justice in local climate adaptation: political capabilities and transformational change. Environmental Politics, 26(3), pp.391-412.
Huitema, D., W. N. Adger, F. Berkhout, E. Massey, D. Mazmanian, S. Munaretto, R. Plummer, and C. C. J. A. M. Termeer., (2016). The governance of adaptation: choices, reasons, and effects. Introduction to the Special Feature. Ecology and Society 21(3):37.
Juhola, S. and Westerhoff, L., (2011). Challenges of adaptation to climate change across multiple scales: a case study of network governance in two European countries. Environmental science & policy, 14(3), pp.239-247.
Pelling, M., O’Brien, K. and Matyas, D., (2015). Adaptation and transformation. Climatic Change, 133(1), pp.113-127.
Purdon, M., (2015). Advancing comparative climate change politics: Theory and method. Global Environmental Politics, 15 pp. 1-26.
Wise, R.M., Fazey, I., Smith, M.S., Park, S.E., Eakin, H.C., Van Garderen, E.A. and Campbell, B., (2014). Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response. Global Environmental Change, 28, pp.325-336.
|