Climate change: one, or many?

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Who should attend?

Everyone with an interest in climate change and sustainability is welcome to attend this lecture, which will be followed by a networking reception with drinks and nibbles.What is the event about?

Has the story of climate change become too univocal?

There is an orthodoxy – even a hegemony – which does not do justice to the complexities of what is happening to climates around the world, nor how such changes are understood. 

In this lecture Professor Mike Hulme will argue that a cultural analysis of climate and its changes is needed as much as a scientific one.

Climate change means to different people in different places holding different beliefs, concerns, and priorities.

Understanding this diversity provides a sounder basis for thinking through the different ways in which we can design and enact policies and other interventions which deal with climatic dangers.

Programme

About Professor Mike Hulme

Professor Mike Hulme joined King’s in September 2013 as professor of climate and culture, following 25 years (1988-2013) at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Mike’s interests are in the relationships between climate, history and culture. In particular, Mike seeks to analyse and illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse around the world.

Humanities and Social Sciences strategy: Environment and Sustainability

The theme includes research spanning social science disciplines and promotes cross-fertilisation of research, including with the natural and engineering sciences, to create new methods, robust findings, and socially relevant insights across the major challenges of environmental sustainability.

For more information about this event and our research, please visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/hass

Registration

To register for this event please email research-events@exeter.ac.uk.