Course 6: Framing Climate Change: Ethics, Vulnerability and the Poor

 

Course Leaders:

• Asuncion Lera St.Clair, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen and (from January 1, 2009) Scientific Director of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), International Social Science Council (ISSC)
• Victoria Lawson, Professor Department of Geography, University of Washington, Member of the Executive Board of the West Coast Poverty Center (WCPC) Seattle, USA. Professor II, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen.

Invited course leader:

• Simon Caney , Professor in Political Theory, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK
• Michael Thompson, Institute Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; and Fellow, James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Said Business School, Oxford University
• Karen O’Brien, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Chair of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) project, International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)

Short Course description:

The course explores and critically analyses the ways in which emergent discourses around climate change, adaptation and mitigation are being framed by dominant actors.

It presents a dialogue between poverty and development studies and an understanding of environmental challenges and climate change from the perspective of their human dimensions. This dialogue includes attending to critical ethical perspectives in all of these fields.

The course thus aims to introduce a more comprehensive understanding of how climate change is linked to social and economic development pathways, and including the ways that individuals and communities perceive themselves in relation to one another and the world around them.

 

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