Theme 1: The Nature of Evidence
Why the persistent challenge of universalizing evidence based approaches?
Living Tensions:
- Equilibria and Disequilibria – change processes and countervailing tendencies
- Communicating Measurement – processes, methodologies, and technologies
- The Fundamentals – ice cap reduction, glacial melt, sea level change.
- Lived Realties – floods, drought, forest fires, hurricanes, and other events
- Data Politics – the use of climate informatics
- Visons of Progress – contesting underlying economic motivations and offering alternatives
- Paleoclimatology – the earth’s climate in short and long views
- Regional Variations, Global Change – negotiating and understanding difference
- Biomes and Biozones – considering eco-framings of space
- Environmental Policies – institutional response to eco-systemic realities
- Anthropogenic Factors – understanding and attributing human causes
- Debating Scenarios – slow, rapid, abrupt, or episodic
- The Future of Everyday Life – weather events, natural disasters, and ecological surprises
- Considering Capacity Building – individual, institutional, and systemic
- Communities and Nations – established politics of framing responsibility
- Human Systems – transport, energy, communication
- Public and Private Interest – engaging business stakeholders
- Intrenching Inequality - climate change in the developing world
- Adaptation and Resilience – private, public, and individual change makers
- Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources – technologies, policies, and strategies
- Measures of Responsibility – navigating climate ethics
- Regulatory Solutions – taxes, offsets, standards, and trading
- Climate Finance – valuing nature and action
Motivating Solidarity – global movements, local framings
Theme 2: Assessing Impacts in Diverse Ecosystems
What are the impacts of climate change on natural environments in particular and universal views?
Living Tensions:
- Paleoclimatology – the earth’s climate in short and long views
- Regional Variations, Global Change – negotiating and understanding difference
- Biomes and Biozones – considering eco-framings of space
- Environmental Policies – institutional response to eco-systemic realities
- Anthropogenic Factors – understanding and attributing human causes
- Debating Scenarios – slow, rapid, abrupt, or episodic
Theme 3: Human Impacts and Responsibility
How have we been agents of climate change, what does a politics of responsibility reveal?
Living Tensions:
- The Future of Everyday Life – weather events, natural disasters, and ecological surprises
- Considering Capacity Building – individual, institutional, and systemic
- Communities and Nations – established politics of framing responsibility
- Human Systems – transport, energy, communication
- Public and Private Interest – engaging business stakeholders
- Intrenching Inequality - climate change in the developing world
Theme 4: Technical, Political, and Social Responses
How do scientists, technologies, policy makers, and community members respond to climate change?
Living Tensions:
- Adaptation and Resilience – private, public, and individual change makers
- Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources – technologies, policies, and strategies
- Measures of Responsibility – navigating climate ethics
- Regulatory Solutions – taxes, offsets, standards, and trading
- Climate Finance – valuing nature and action
- Motivating Solidarity – global movements, local framings