Workshop Announcement: Climate Change: Social Science and Civil Society
Perspectives
Monday March 9th 2009, 9.30am-4pm
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol St., London EC1Y 8LX
Registration for this event is free. Please contact Jacqui at
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place. Early registration is advisable as places are limited.
Program
Climate change poses enormous policy challenges and has profound social
scientific dimensions. But researchers and users of research often work
in
distinct institutional or disciplinary contexts which may impede much
needed cross-fertilisation of research agendas and diffusion of
knowledge.
The aim of this event, which is part of the ESRC's Festival of Social
Science week
(http://www.esrcfestival.ac.uk<http://www.esrcfestival.ac.uk/>), is to
achieve a meeting of minds between academics, environmental groups and
members of the policy community with interests in the social science
research agenda (broadly conceived) into the climate crisis.
Presentations
will be given by academics of their ongoing research, followed by
presentations from environmental NGOs and campaigners on how they
perceive
the research and policy agenda going forward. Each session will end with
questions and comments from a panel which includes representatives of
the
policy community. The audience will be drawn from academia, the third
sector and the policy community. The panel includes Rt. Hon. Michael
Meacher MP, Alan Whitehead MP, Jean Lambert MEP and Graham Smith
(professor of Politics, University of Southampton).
Schedule
9.30-10.00
Registration, refreshments.
10.00-12.00
Jouni Paavola, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, School of
Earth and Environment, University of Leeds:
Social Justice and Climate Change Governance
Adrian Smith, University of Sussex, ESRC Sussex Energy Group and ESRC
STEPS Centre (Social,Technological and Environmental Pathways to
Sustainability) at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research):
Transitions to Low Carbon Energy Systems: some Reflections from Social
Science
Michael Mason, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the
Environment, London School of Economics:
Climate Change Adaptation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Climate
Vulnerability as Insecurity
12.00-12.30
Questions and comments from panel and audience.
12.30-1.30 lunch
1.30-3.30
Oliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2":
Kyoto2 - the Way to a Global 'Green New Deal'?
Brian Davey, FEASTA (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) and
Cap and Share UK: Is Humanity Capable of Preventing Runaway Climate
Change?
Sanjeev Kumar, WWF (World Wildlife Fund):
Social Science and Political Advocacy - An NGO Perspective in the
Climate
Change Debate
3.30-4.00
Questions and comments from panel and audience.
The afternoon presentations will be held under the Chatham House rule
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule)
Registration for this event is free. Please contact Jacqui at
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to secure
a
place. Early registration is advisable as places are limited. The
workshop
is organised by Nicholas Bardsley and Milena Buchs of the University of
Southampton.
Nicholas Bardsley
Senior Research Fellow
National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
Room 4001, Building 58
University of Southampton
SO17 1BJ
tel. 023 8059 3319
fax. 023 8059 8908
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