(6 March) Appointment as Head of the Department of Geography. I will be taking up this new role at King’s College London from the beginning of April. This coincides with a major new recruitment cycle of academic positions in the Department: six posts currently advertised (see below), plus three further chairs in geography to be […]
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Governing climate after the Paris Agreement
(25 February 2016) Podcast: ‘Governing climate after the Paris Agreement’. Also, find here a summary of this King’s Climate Dialogue which took place on Wednesday 24 February, in which I chair a discussion panel consisting of Oliver Geden, Harriet...
1.5C and climate research after the Paris Agreement
(2 February) ‘1.5C and climate research after the Paris Agreement‘ Read my commentary in Nature Climate Change, published yesterday. The Paris Agreement contains an ambition to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, changing the context for policy-relevant research and extending a challenge to the IPCC and researchers.
Living with climate change, with or without the Paris Agreement
Given what has gone before, the Paris Agreement on climate change is certainly an impressive achievement of international negotiation. But what countries will be signing-up to, should they ratify it, is hardly going to reduce the challenges of dealing with a changing climate. And it has very little to contribute to addressing the chronic deficiencies […]
Is climate change to blame for Syrian civil war?
(30 November) Blog Post: ‘Is climate change really to blame for Syria’s civil war?’ Jan Selby and I answer this question with a ‘no’.
‘Knowledge pluralism’ [and climate governance]
(23 November) NEW Book chapter. ‘Knowledge pluralism‘ has now been published as Chapter 49 in Backstrand,K. and Lovbrand,E. (2015) Research Handbook on Climate Governance Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 630pp.
Inaugural lecture podcast
(23 November) My inaugural lecture at King’s College London – ‘Studying climate and its changes: in places, with numbers, through myths’ – is now available as a podcast here, with slides available at Academia.Edu here.
Four new papers published
(6 November) NEW papers now published. The following four papers are now all published on-line: Turnhout,E., Dewulf,A. and Hulme,M. (2016) ‘What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do? The cases of climate and biodiversity‘ Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 18, 65-72; Hulme,M. (2015) ‘Finding the message of the Pope’s Encyclical‘ Environment 57(6), 16-19; Hulme,M. (2015) ‘Changing […]
Major Publications 2015
Borie,M. and Hulme,M. (2015) Framing global biodiversity: IPBES between Mother Earth and ecosystem services Environmental Science & Policy 54, 487-496 Hulme,M. (2015) (Still) Disagreeing about climate change: which way forward? Zygon: A Journal of Religion and Science 50(4), 893-905 Hulme,M. (2015) Afterword: The many uses of climate change pp.289-299 in: Climate cultures: anthropological perspectives on […]
‘(Still) Disagreeing about climate change: what way forward?’
(30 October) NEW paper. ‘(Still) Disagreeing about climate change: what way forward?’ will be published in the next issue (December 2015) of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.
