Wednesday 11 April 2012 at 09:30 - 11:30 RISK, GLOBALISATION, CLIMATE CHANGE
AND BEYOND Butler, C., Parkhill, K., Henwood, K., Shirani, F., Pidgeon, N.
ROGER STEVENS 09 Cardiff University
Climate Change, Social Change and Social Reproduction: Exploring Energy Demand Reduction through a Biographical Lens
In debates around climate change it is widely recognised that a major challenge in low carbon transitioning is the necessity to reduce energy consumption. We know from existing research that people do not use energy but use the services made possible by energy. The implication of this insight is that the challenge runs deep into the fabric of our personal lives and that the changes involved in achieving reductions are intimately connected to what we do as part of our daily lives. This has often been interpreted as demanding an approach to change that addresses people as individuals and asks for them to make alterations in the choices they make. In this paper we work with a different framework of understanding, drawing upon Bourdieu's concept of social reproduction along with related ideas from more critical traditions (e.g. feminism), to open up understanding of the personal as fundamentally political. In the context of energy usage such a conceptual approach offers potential for exploring how what we might regard as personal (e.g. showering, raising children) is in many respects social, and how particular ways of doing the personal are reproduced through the social. In this paper, we examine biographical interview data (n=90) for what these accounts of personal lives can tell us about wider processes of social reproduction and for how we might challenge such processes in ways that could lead to reduced energy consumption.
Sealey-Huggins, L. University of Leeds
The Politics and Ethics of Responses to Climate Change in the Caribbean Region: A Tentative Sociological Analysis
Sociological interest in climate change has mushroomed in recent years, evidenced not least by the establishment of the British Sociological Association's Climate Change Study Group. I seek to contribute to this emergent sociological research into climate change through a discussion of a sample of my fieldwork on 'public engagement' in the Caribbean, a region intensely affected by climate change, as well as the legacies of colonialism, and the vagaries of global capital.
I consider whether there are implicit assumptions being made about the way the world is, and how it ought to be in existing and unfolding responses to climate change in the Caribbean region. I aim to evaluate some of the social and political implications of these assumptions in the hope of working towards more ethically, politically and sociologically sound responses
Delicado, A., Schmidt, L., Gomes, C., Granjo, P., Guerreiro, S. University of Lisbon
Social Perceptions on Climate Change and Coastal Risks: Engaging Local Stakeholders for Efficient Adaptation Strategies
Climate change is one of the major challenges human societies are facing. Coastal communities are particularly vulnerable, as their homes and livelihoods are increasingly exposed to risks from coastal erosion and climate change. Protecting the coastline is becoming more costly, a problem that has to be addressed in more innovative ways in the current economic context. Relocation and other types of adaptation to a changing coast cannot be carried out without the engagement and participation of communities.
This issue has already been fairly studied in affluent countries, such as the UK and the Netherlands or Canada, and also in developing countries, such as Vietnam and the Caribbean Islands.
Portugal, as a semi-peripheral European country, with its population concentrated on the coast and a weak tradition of public participation in decision-making and risk management, can be an interesting case study, especially when taking into consideration its current economic situation.
Based on evidence from interviews with local stakeholders and extensive surveys, this paper examines the perceptions of three Portuguese communities on future coastal and climate risks, as well as the role of public participation on coastal management. This is one of the first stages of our research, which aims to contribute to new policies for sustainability, through innovative processes of engaging populations.
Khan, M. London School of Economics and Political Science Livelihood, Shocks and Survival: Women's Adapting Strategy to Post-cyclonic Hazard Mitigation 70
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