Course on climate change, ethics, vulnerability and the poor
The Bergen summer research school this year gives the course Framing Climate Change: Ethics, Vulnerability and the Poor. 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.
Course leaders are 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), and Karen O’Brien, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Chair of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) project.
Invited course leaders are 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, and Coleen Vogel, Chair of Sustainability, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (pending confirmation).
Full information can be found at the Bergen summer research school website.
