I thought at first "Good, thinking it might relate to the inclusion of climate change issues as a teaching subject in the curriculum rather than academic research, but it really does sound as though the students are left completely out of the equation.
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On Sunday, 17 January 2016, 12:37, tom abeles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Here is an excellent example of the major problems that you have been addressing about the university. If one reads the description carefully, while it states that there should be more participation by academia in the issues of climate change, sustainability and related matters, the entire draw, focus or raison for academic participation in this event is that academics will collect points for attending and for publishing in a peer reviewed journal, all directed towards advancement, promotion and tenure. There is faint hope that one's research may be of interest to those on the front line; but that would be a bonus.
This is not a call to action for faculty to become involved in the issues raised by the Paris conference and to affect a call to action for faculty but a standard academic conference to present papers, get noted for the research and to advance careers. There is no attempt to motivate faculty to go beyond the academic
One proof here is that the incentive is to have this work published in high impact journals that keep their articles behind pay walls (though Emerald is green Open Access).
If FOW and its membership is to meet the core ideals/ideas that are advocated, academics will have to step beyond their narrow research/pub/perish and, like Indian Jones in "The Last Crusade", step out onto that "invisible" bridge with the faith that there is such unseen in that gulf between rhetoric and reality.
besttom
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Many thanks. Yes, for sure it is of interest.
Best wishes
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Dear Friends of Wisdom, I have received notification of this Symposium (see below), which must surely be of interest to us all. I have sent off an abstract of a possible contribution. Best wishes, Nick Maxwell------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: Symposium "Universities and Climate Change: the Role of Higher Education Institutions in Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges" Manchester, United Kingdom, 1st -2nd September 2016 Symposium "Universities and Climate Change: the Role of Higher Education Institutions
in Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges"
Manchester, United Kingdom, 1st -2nd September 2016
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-als/veranstaltungen/universities2016.html
| | universities2016: FTZ-ALS: HAW Hamburgwww.haw-hamburg.deMany universities across the world perform state- of-the art research on matters related to climate change, both in respect of mitigation, and adaptation. |
Dear Colleagues,
Many universities across the world perform state- of-the art research on matters related to climate change, both in respect of
mitigation, and adaptation. Yet, as shown by the latest 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change
(COP 21), held in Paris in December 2015, there is much room for improvements in the role played by universities
in the negotiations and in influencing decision-making on a matter of such a global importance.
There are unfortunately relatively few events where a multidisciplinary overview of university-based
research efforts and projects on climate change can be show cased, and where
researchers from across the spectrum of the natural and social sciences have had the
opportunity to come together to discuss research methods, the results of
empirical research or exchange ideas about on-going and future research initiatives focusing
on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
It is against this background that the Symposium “Universities and Climate Change: the Role of
Higher Education Institutions in Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges"
is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and HAW Hamburg, Germany,
under the auspices of the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP).
It will be held in Manchester, United Kingdom, on 1st -2nd September 2016.
The Symposium will involve researchers in the field of climate change in the widest sense, not only
from traditional climate science, but also from the fields of environment, human geography,
business and economics, arts, administration and media studies.
The Symposium will focus on the role of higher education institutions in addressing the
mitigation and adaptation challenges and will contribute to the further development of this
fast-growing field. All papers will be peer-reviewed and the accepted ones will
be published in the “Handbook of Climate Change Research at Universities: addressing the mitigation
and adaptation challenges”. This will be a unique, state-of-the-art publication,
which will document and promote the research on climate change taking place at universities
across the world. The publication will be part of the award-winning
“Climate Change Management Sustainability Series” (launched in 2008), published
by Springer, one of the world´s top five scientific publishers.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Climate Change
Strategies and Management, which is a fully indexed journal. The call for papers can be seen
here: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=6464.
You are based on an university and performing research on climate change,
this is an event not to be missed. Further details can be seen at:http://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-als/veranstaltungen/universities2016.html
