Association of American Geographers session call
http://www.aag.org/cs/events/event_detail?eventId=1259
Washington D.C. April 3-7, 2018
Panel Session Organizers: Max Boykoff (University of Colorado,
Boulder), Shelly Sommer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
co-sponsors: Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group, Media
& Communication Specialty Group, Cultural & Political Ecology
Specialty Group, Environmental Perception & Behavioral Geography
Specialty Group, Ethics, Justice & Human Rights Specialty Group
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Title ‘Engaged scientists’: personal and professional commitments
among climate change researchers
Description
Is personal climate action a relevant and influential factor in the
professional credibility of climate researchers? Natural and social
scientists as well as humanities scholars who research dimensions of
climate change may often ponder how our personal actions and
commitments cohere and/or conflict with our professional efforts. In
the current high-stakes, high-profile and highly-politicized spaces of
climate science and policy, our private behaviors are now more
frequently scrutinized in the public space. Our actions garner
judgement, from commendation to condemnation. Some of this comes from
our choices to share our private behaviors publicly but others come
from unsolicited public appraisals. These also often spill over into
deliberations of researcher credibility and expertise, debates over
the appropriateness of these public/private interactions and reviews
of one's responsibility/need to be visible leaders on both personal
and professional action.
In this panel session, presenters will discuss challenges and
opportunities associated with this state of affairs from their
perspectives. They will also consider how this personal/professional
dichotomy fits into and scale up to larger initiatives currently
underway in the public sphere from the community to
national/international level.
More about the meeting is here
https://annualmeeting.aag.org/AAGAnnualMeeting/Home.aspx
Warm regards,
Max (with Shelly Sommer)
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Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR)
Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder
Deputy Editor, Climatic Change
@boykoff ~ http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/boykoff/
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