Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Justice

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Leader: David Schlosberg

Members: Linda Connor, Rosemary Lyster, Peter Marks, Phil McManus, Bill Pritchard, Krishna Shrestha

Climate change brings with it a shifting set of vulnerabilities, disadvantages, and the potential for loss. While most theories and movements for climate justice have focused normative arguments for the prevention of climate change at the global level, the reality is that climate change is already having impacts on vulnerable communities on the ground, affecting a range of basic needs. This symposium will examine the potential of a shift in considerations of climate justice to the condition of adaptation, and explore a range of coming impacts and vulnerabilities – to local cultures, food security, environmental resources, and health. We will also address a variety of adaptive designs and issues – how we respond to the experience of climate change – contrasting the more optimistic and utopian with the ore harshly pragmatic.

Sydney Ideas - Living with Climate Change

When: 20 August 2012
Interview

10:51 minutes

Dale Jamieson, Director of Environmental Studies at New York University, discusses 'Living with Climate Change' as part of the Sydney Ideas Keynote Lecture

Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Justice Symposium

03:04 minutes

Professor Schlosberg discusses the role of the Network at the recent symposium on vulnerability and adaptation

When: 21 August 2012
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David Schlosberg, Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy (or Justice for the Anthropocene)

Rosemary Lyster, Towards a global justice vision for Climate Law in a time of 'unreason'

Clare Heyward, Adaptation: Part of the problem or an incomplete solution?

Steve Vanderheiden, Justice and Accountability in Climate Chance Adaptation

Peter Christoff, Rethinking Australia’s adaptation responsibilities - from carbon footprint to international funding

Suzanne Dunford, Understanding and Minimising Impacts in Local Communities

Phil McManus, Food, coal and greenhouse gas emissions

Krishna Shrestha, Fairness in climate change adaptation: Insights from Nepalese Community Forestry

Bill Pritchard, A people-centred perspective on climate change and food insecurity: hungry and vulnerable in rural India

John Crawford, Mitigation and adaptation in the food system - a perfect mess?

Liz Hanna, Human evolution and climate: the dangerous dance between climate and environment, health and culture

Timothy Doyle, Educating for Climate Change in Friends of the Earth International: Mitigating ‘Right-Thinking’, or Empowerment as Adaptation

Peter Marks, Ecology in The Twenty-Fourth Century: Observations and Lessons from Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312

Andrew Milner, The Sea and Eternal Summer: Science Fiction, Futurology and Climate Change