Fellow Gep-Eders: This is to query interest in participating on a ISA 2019 panel tentatively titled, "From Natural Disaster Response to Transition Adaptation."
The idea here is that seeds of adaptation to the long-term transition (i.e., less available natural resources, rising defensive expenditures, climate change, culture change, economic reorganization, etc.) can be found in how collectivities respond to "natural" disasters, extreme events with strong human as well as biophysical components, both in cause and effect. Wildfires, floods, heat waves, landslides are illustrative. While reversion to, even solidification of the status quo is a common response, so too are step changes in world view, resource practices (e.g., irrigating, harvesting, building, transporting), economic organization (e.g., constraining the market), and social norms (e.g., growth, efficiency, speed). The question this panel thus poses is: *Under what conditions do positive (i.e., long-term, adaptive, equitable, sustainable) step changes emerge from a natural disaster*? Case studies, histories, concept papers, futuring exercises would all work. Please reply directly to me, not to Gep-ed, with a brief description of such a contribution. Indicate the state of development of the paper idea (nascent is OK!). I'll select for a diversity of ideas, approaches, professional standing, gender, etc. Also please indicate if you'd be interested in chairing or discussing, as I'd prefer to present a paper myself (on wildfire). Please submit your idea to me before *May 20th*. Those chosen will then need to follow ISA guidelines for paper proposals. All this so I can put together the panel proposal for the June 1 deadline. Look forward to hearing, Tom Princen ********************************************************** Thomas Princen, Ph.D. School for Environment and Sustainability 440 Church Street, Dana Building, office 2506 The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 48109-1041 telephone: 734-647-9227 fax: 734-936-2195 email: [email protected] ********************************************************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
