Fwd: Please spread the word! - Mellon Fellowships on Climate and Inequality

[Dale W Jamieson]

 

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Date: Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 8:30 AM
Subject: Please spread the word! - Mellon Fellowships on Climate and Inequality
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View this email in your browser Dear Dale, A few weeks ago we announced the generous grant we received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish two humanities fellowships. These fellows will work with our staff and partners to develop public programs exploring the many ways in which the climate crisis is a social justice crisis. As always, our goal with this programming will be to inspire broad public engagement and action. Do you know a humanities scholar who may be interested in joining our team? Post-Doctoral Mellon Fellowship Application    Pre-Doctoral Mellon Fellowship Application      We'd be most grateful if you would circulate these listings far and wide! The climate crisis is accelerating rapidly and we urgently need more public engagement efforts addressing the intersection of climate and social inequalities.  The application deadline for both positions is March 15.  Many thanks, The Climate Museum team Copyright © 2020 The Climate Museum, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list

[Myanna Lahsen]

Dear all

Australian fires are raging and deep failures mark efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. The science of attributing individual extreme events to climate change has exploded in such conditions, and communications specialists stress the need to clearly communicate the role of climate change in such events. 

Titled "When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective," an article by Myanna Lahsen (myself) with Gabriela de Azevedo Couto & Irene Lorenzoni is just out in Climatic Change:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-019-02642-z (open access) .

Examining the politics and policy implications in Brazil of attributing extreme weather events to climate change, we find that a variety of contextual factors compel even environmental leaders and IPCC-involved scientists in Brazil to avoid and discourage highlighting the role of climate change in national extreme weather-related events. Rather than failed understanding or communications, as analysts typically assume, we argue that this reflects sound strategic, socio-environmental reasoning, even when the aim is to enhance environmental protection and societal resilience to climate impacts. The case study has implications beyond Brazil by begging greater attention to policies and politics in particular places before assuming that attribution science and discursive emphasis on the climate role in extreme events are the most strategic means of achieving climate mitigation and disaster preparedness. Factors at play in Brazil might also structure extreme events attribution politics in other countries, not least some other countries of the global South.

It might be interesting to teach together with an article such as:

Hassol, S. J., et al. (2016). "(Un) Natural Disasters: Communicating Linkages between Extreme Events and Climate change." WMO Bulletin 65(2): https://public.wmo.int/en/resources/bulletin/unnatural-disasters-communicating-linkages-between-extreme-events-and-climate.

Cheers,

Myanna 

 

Dr. Myanna Lahsen | Wageningen University and Research Centre

 Senior Associate Researcher (Titular), Center for Earth System Science, INPE, Brazil; 

Associate Professor, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen, The Netherlands  

E-mail: mya...@gmail.com.