Dear friends, here is a brief update of ongoing and future activities within the theme. This is just a selection, so please, please use the comment field at the bottom to add your activities!1. Emily and Per are cohosting a workshop 'Beyond Limits to Adaptation towards Transformations' in Oxford 1-2 June, 2009. Co-hosted with colleagues at the Walker Institute Reading University and Environmental Change Institute Oxford.
2. Adaptive governance book edited by Emily and Carl, is on track for submission for end of 2009.
3. Emily is part of a project bid to the Leverhulme Trust on Tipping Points in coupled systems (lead by Geography Oxford). If successful, the project will be a large 4 year project examining 3-5 case studies in Africa, India, Amazonia and the UK to better understand and model social and ecological tipping points with opportunities for post docs.
4. Per is planning a PhD course for spring 2010. The preliminary name of the course "Shaping change: understanding transformations in social-ecological systems". The course will pull together a number of disciplines and lecturers that are addressing transitions and transformations.
5. Per is presenting in a session on resilience at the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Synthesis Conference “ HUMAN SECURITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL CHANGE” in June 22-24, 2009 , University of Oslo, Norway
6. Per is, together with Henrik Österblom, organizing a joint session with the DRIFT (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions) group at the RMNO-conference "Towards a Knowledge Democracy", August 25-27 in the Netherlands.
5. Per is presenting in a session on resilience at the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Synthesis Conference “ HUMAN SECURITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL CHANGE” in June 22-24, 2009 , University of Oslo, Norway
6. Per is, together with Henrik Österblom, organizing a joint session with the DRIFT (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions) group at the RMNO-conference "Towards a Knowledge Democracy", August 25-27 in the Netherlands.
7. Victor contributed to two reports as the result of work done for the International Commission for Climate Change and Development. Both reports deal with the role of local institutions and governance for building climate resilience. They can be downloaded here.
8. The emerging Global Change theme (with Will Steffen and Kevin Noone) is working very closely with a range of people from our theme (Beatrice, Per, Måns, Åsa, Victor) to make a governance follow up on the Planetary Boundaries concept. A small workshop will be held June 24th, with two possible follow up meetings in Stockholm and Amsterdam. Additional workshops on e.g. implications of abrupt climate change under way for 2010.
9. Victor and Per are on their way to Rotterdam on June 8th to meet a group of researchers dealing with network governance, and network management.
9. Don't forget Lisen's dissertation on June 4th!
John Parker (postdoc from NCEAS Santa Barbara) is visiting the center June 15-30.
ReplyDeleteHis expertise is in the sociology of science and he will be giving a talk on June 17th about some of the work he's done studying the Resilience Allience. Should be interesting to most people at the center.
Adding to activities:
ReplyDeleteA recent traveling conference on the European Arctic - the Calotte Academy 2009 - highlights a need to address the role of large-scale industrial development and security in studies of adaptive governance. Annika presented a paper on "The Framing of Arctic Climate Change. Can We Predict the Future" with the conclusions that current theories of international politics have not been able to capture the recent turn toward military and economic security in the rhetoric about Arctic climate change. The trip, which visited Inari, Kirkenes and Murmansk, turned into a healthy "reality check" for our discussions. I will elaborate more on this in my forthcoming contribution to this blog (in August).