Dear all,

The call for papers below may be of interest to some of you. Apologies for cross-postings.

best wishes,
Tim Schwanen

Call for papers
2011 Annual Meeting of the AAG, Seattle, WA, April 12-16


The climate change challenge and geographies of transport and mobilities


Organiser:
Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford and Utrecht University

Sponsored by the Transport Geography Specialty Group


Session abstract

It is by now widely accepted that climate change is one of the biggest challenges that the transport sector will be facing in the coming decades. It is therefore no surprise that transport geography research about climate change mitigation and decarbonisation in the movement of people and freight is proliferating. It seems, however, that transport and mobility geographers have so far paid less attention to issues of climate change adaptation. Also, issues of climate change do not seem to have raised much reflection and debate regarding the question what climate change means for the ways in which transport geography and mobilities research is conducted – i.e. the methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies that are drawn upon in studies of matters of climate change in relation to transport and mobilities.

Against this background this session seeks to bring together geographers and others examining transport and mobilities in relation to climate change and energy use. I am particularly interested in contributions about climate change mitigation and adaptation that, in one way or another, also address self-reflexive questions about the practice of doing research on climate change in relation to transport and mobility.

The topics this session seeks to explore include, but are not limited to, the following:


 *   Climate change mitigation and in local/regional and global movements of people and goods
 *   Climate change adaptation in the transport of people and freight
 *   The governance of transport and mobilities in relation to climate change mitigation and adaptation
 *   Cross-fertilization of insights from transport geography and geographies of mobilities in the context of research on climate change
 *   The use of innovative approaches and methodologies from the wider social sciences in research about transport and mobilities in relation to climate change
 *   International comparative research about issues of climate change, mobilities and transport

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words if you are interested in participating in the session(s) to Tim Schwanen ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by October 10.



Dr. Tim Schwanen
Transport Studies Unit
School of Geography and the Environment
University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford
OX1 3QY, England
Tel: +44 (0)1865 285503 / 285070