Here is a piece on the "Politics of climate change adaptation" forthcoming in
the Annual Review of Environment and Resource:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325607009_The_Politics_of_Climate_Change_Adaptation
(pls email me if you need the PDF version).
Regarding fires in the American/Canadian West, we published this blog on August
22:
http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/403093-seattles-smoky-summers-are-becoming-the-new-normal
We suggest that all actors need to think of climate adaptation even as they
work towards mitigation. Forest fires afflicting Western US and Canada have
distinct transboundary character. Given their scale, tackling them is perhaps
beyond the capacity of any given state; a regional approach is needed.
Importantly, we need bipartisanship and explore collaborative
business-NGO-government arrangements. The desire for the perfect should not
become the enemy of the practical.
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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, John M Meyer wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
>
> The conference will be held at the Manchester Hyatt in San Diego, California,
> from April 18 to 20, 2019
>
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