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Non-COST Event: Conference on Public Action to Address Climate Change
Date: 15-16 March, 2012
Place: Centre Emil Durkheim, Bordeaux, France
This conference focuses on how democratic political systems deal with global environmental change. In order to formulate a comprehensive policy framework, the involvement of many actors and sectors of activities is necessary; not only at the global scale, but also at the national and local scales.
The conference targets three issue areas:
- Expertise and Politics
- Interplay of Scales and Public Action
- International Comparison and the Convergence of Public Policies
Climate change is a global environmental issue, which has resulted in a proliferation of state control devices in the last twenty years. What role for social science research? Even as works on the topic abound, it still appears somewhat reflective about its own role. Calling for an interdisciplinary dialogue (among political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, economists and geographers), the research areas proposed for this conference invite researchers, through critical and comparative lenses, to grapple with major issues related to the public treatment of climate change around the world.
The deadline for proposals for papers (in English or French) is December 15, 2011.
Read the full Call for Papers in the final attachment.
