Dear Colleagues, The annual general conference of the European Consortium for Political Research will be held in Glasgow, Scotland on 4 to 6 September, 2014. I wish to propose a panel on the politics (broadly defined) of climate engineering. If you are interested, please get a title and abstract to me by Monday 10 February. This will allow me to organize them, propose panel title(s), contact the submitters for any necessary feedback, etc.
Panels must be proposed by 15 February, and must by that date already include the three to five presenters per panel, with titles and abstracts (150 words) for each. I wish to coordinate one or more panels on climate engineering and its politics, broadly defined to include law, public perception, economics, ethics, geography, etc. At this time, I do not have a more specific theme in mind. Instead, my intention is to let the presentations guide the theme(s) of the panel(s). If interest is great, more than one panel could be proposed. The panel(s) must be submitted as part of an existing section, and for this I propose "Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene" (details on that are below). With best wishes, Jesse Reynolds Links: http://ecpr.eu/events/eventdetails.aspx?EventID=14 http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/Files/Conferences/General/Glasgow/ScheduleOfActivities.pdf ----------------------------------------- Jesse L. Reynolds, M.S. PhD Candidate European and International Public Law Tilburg Sustainability Center Tilburg University, The Netherlands Book review editor, Law, Innovation, and Technology email: j.l.reyno...@uvt.nl<mailto:j.l.reyno...@uvt.nl> http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=j.l.reynolds Proposed section: S049 Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene Environmental Policy, Governance, Green Politics, International Relations, Public Policy Section Chair: Philipp Pattberg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Section Co-Chair: Fariborz Zelli Lunds Universitet Abstract: The term anthropocene denotes a new geological epoch in planetary history, one that is characterized by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth's ecosystems. Scientists today see mounting evidence that the entire earth system now operates well outside safe boundaries. Human societies must therefore change course and steer away from critical tipping points that might lead to rapid and irreversible change, while ensuring sustainable livelihoods for all. But while the natural sciences have advanced their understanding of the drivers and processes of global change considerably over the last two decades, the social sciences lag behind in developing and implementing a coherent research paradigm to address this fundamental challenge of politics and governance in the anthropocene. The key question from a social science perspective is how to organize the co-evolution of societies and their surrounding environment, in other words, how to develop effective and equita-ble governance solutions for today's global transformations. This section invites panels to close this crucial research gap, in particular with regards to the following 5 overarching research themes: (i) the role and relevance of institutions, both formal and informal as well as international and transnational, for governing in the anthropocene; (ii) the question of agency and actorness in addressing planetary challenges; (iii) the relevance of normative concerns in governing in the anthropocene, including questions about fairness, equity, justice and allocation; (iv) the role and relevance of accountability and other democratic principles for governing in the anthropocene; (v) the challenge of adapting societies at different scales to global change. The section is endorsed by the international Earth System Governance Project, the largest social science research network in the area of governance and global environmental change. The International Project Office is hosted by the University of Lund, Sweden. http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
