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The deadline for abstracts has been extended until FRIDAY 26th FEBRUARY for this session. We are looking for one remaining to complete the session.
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, London 1-3 September 2010
Session: The Political Geography of Climate Change
Sponsored by the Political Geography Research Group of the RGS (PGRG)**
Session Organisers: Drew Foxall (Oxford University) and Nicholas Howarth (Oxford University)
Intersecting energy security, economic development and tensions relating to international trade, state and non-state actors are increasingly being forced to familiarize themselves with both the environmental and political conflicts arising from climate change. The recent 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Climate Change (COP15) in Copenhagen in December 2009 highlighted both the urgency and strength of global concern regarding the global risks climate change, but also the limitations of the institutions available to reconcile competing interests and promote cooperation. On a more superficial level, the international media has also been focused on attacks by climate sceptics on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s inclusion of
non-peer reviewed research on the risks of the melting of the Himalayan glaciers and controversial anonymous cyber attacks on the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit.
In this vein, the journal ‘Political Geography’ devoted an entire issue to exploring the links between climate change and violent conflict (Volume 26, Issue 6). In the issue’s opening article, “Climate Change and Conflict”, Ragnhild Nordås and Nils Petter Gleditsch lamented the lack of firsthand, peer-reviewed research on climate and conflict, noting that “statements about security implications have so far largely been based on speculation and questionable sources” (p. 628). This session in part picks up where that issue left off.
Climate change is a fruitful area of research for both human and physical geographers, as well as for others, not least because of the increasing importance of climate change and mitigation policy to global, national, and local affairs. In this session we aim to bring together those working on what might be termed the ‘Political Geography of Climate Change’. We welcome relevant abstracts on any topic related to this purposefully broad theme. Possible topics might include:
- What are the spatial politics of climate change?
- How are climate change discourses created, circulated and consumed at
varying scales?
- What would a subaltern and class-based view of climate geopolitics
look like?
- What are the implications of climate change for world security?
- Where do political geographies emerge from as part of the climate
change paradigm?
- How can climate change be re-scaled and embodied through political
geography?
Please submit your abstracts (of max. 200 words) to both session organisers by 26 February 2010.
If you have any questions please contact the organizers;
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Drew Foxall
Christ Church
OXFORD OX1 1DP
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/research/dfoxall.html
Political Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG)
http://polgrg.wordpress.com/
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