Environmental Politics colleagues, Please see the call from the WPSA, below. Many of you know that this conference has long been a welcoming home for scholarship in our field/s, but with this year's conference theme on the politics of climate change, that seems especially true. I hope you'll join me in attending.
All best, John ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Richard Clucas <h...@pdx.edu> Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 4:28 PM Subject: Please share this announcement To: John M. Meyer <john.me...@humboldt.edu> With much of the American West blanketed in smoke this summer and the East repeatedly saturated in rain, it is hard not to believe that the environment has begun to suffer from the devastations of climate change. But to climate change experts, it is only going to get worse. One scholarly projection, which was just published in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*, concludes that the world may be at a threshold which, if crossed, will make it increasingly futile to stop the crises that are about to unfold, not just in the ecosystem, but in societies, economies, and politics. The term the study used to describe this projection is “Hothouse Earth.” Despite the dire picture presented in the study, the authors of the paper believe, as must scholars do, that there is still time to act. Given the pressing significance of this issue, the Western Political Science Association has decided to adopt a theme for its April 2019 meeting on “The Politics of Climate Change.” It is a threat that demands the attention of political scientists. While proposals are welcome on all topics in political science, we are particularly encouraging proposals that enhance our understanding of the politics related to climate change. Scholars in all subfields of the discipline are welcome to submit proposals on subjects related to this theme. We are sending you this note now because the deadline for paper and panel proposals will be coming up shortly (September 21). Details about the conference, its theme, the Call for Papers, and proposal instructions are available on the WPSA website: www.wpsanet.org <http://www.wpsanet.org/>. The conference will be held at the Manchester Hyatt in San Diego, California, from April 18 to 20, 2019 -- Richard A. Clucas Executive Director Western Political Science Association Professor Political Science Department Hatfield School of Government Portland State University Portland, OR 97207 (503) 725-3258 For current news about the Western Political Science Association visit: WPSA on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Political-Science-Association/206831892693123?ref=br_tf> -- John M. Meyer, Professor and Chair Department of Politics <http://humboldt.edu/politics/>, Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 USA. p: 707.826.4497 Editor, Environmental Politics <http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fenp20/current> @Env_Pol <https://twitter.com/Env_Pol> users.humboldt.edu/john.m.meyer he/him/his (Why include this? Click here <http://www2.humboldt.edu/qweerss/pronouns.html>to learn more.) -- 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 gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
