(28 February) “Can (and should) ‘loss and damage’ be attributed to climate change?” Read my new blog post over at The Fletcher Forum for World Affairs. Following Doha and the COP18, the ‘loss and damage’ agenda now has institutional force, and the coming months and years will see rounds of technical and political negotiation about […]
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Writing and climate change
(26 February) I will be speaking alongside authors, poets and playwrights at the UEA Centre for Writing and Science’s day event on Saturday 25 May at the University of East Anglia: “Writing and climate change: the story so far … how do writers and scientists communicate the controversies of climate change? Register here.
Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?
(13 February) “Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?” This was the title of my talk at last week’s STEPS Centre Conference on ‘Credibility across cultures‘. A longer version of this is being prepared for a book, but I have posted here a summary of my argument. It has also been picked up […]
Environmental Politics: Scale and Power
(25 January) Read my review of Shannon O’Lear’s book Environmental Politics: Scale and Power, prepared for the current issue (2(3)) of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. I conclude my review thus: “It is one thing to promote a critical reflexivity about the environment – which is something Environmental Politics: Scale and Power does very well. […]
Debating climate change at the Institute of Economic Affairs
(Updated 26 November 2012) You can listen here to my opening remarks in the debate on the science and politics of climate change, held at the Institute of Economic Affairs on 23 November 2009.
What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?
(12 November 2012) ‘What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?’ I have a new Working Paper posted on the 3S web-site, derived from a series of talks I have given over the last few months.
A review of ‘Climate change and society’
(2 October 2012) My review of John Urry’s book — Urry,J. (2011) Climate change and society Polity Press, Cambridge, 217pp. — has been published here in a Book Review Symposium in the journal Sociology.
The colour of risk: the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram
(6 October 2012) NEW Publication: Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2012) ‘The colour of risk: an exploration of the IPCC’s “burning embers” diagram’ Spontaneous Generation: a Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6(1), 75-89. Written with one of my PhD students, this paper examines the problems of representing visually the abstract risks associated with climate change.
Religion and climate change
(26 September 2012) ‘How the world’s religions are responding to climate change: social scientific investigations’. This new book is to be published by Routledge next year, edited by Haluza-DeLay, Veldman and Szasz. I have written a short Forward to the book which can be accessed here.
What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?
(20 June) My Copenhagen Sustainability Lecture is tomorrow – Thursday 21 June at 10am – at the University of Copenhagen. The script of my speech can be downloaded here.
