Social Vulnerabilities and Climate Change Adaptation: Gender Inequality, Poverty, and Exclusion

Apr 26, 2022 - Apr 29, 2022 | Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham
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This workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities for integrating considerations of social exclusion into climate change discourse and policies, ensuring climate change adaptation strategies are effective. This will be achieved by considering the historical development of the concept of gender mainstreaming, as well as how climate change adaptation strategies can exacerbate inequalities and other vulnerabilities on the ground. We invite papers that explore an unorthodox range of actors who can act as ‘agents of change’ in climate change adaptation in different cultural and economic contexts. In so doing, the workshop will provide an in-depth look at how contemporary social exclusion debates relate to the landscape of climate change adaptation – and how public discourse has oscillated between mitigation and adaptation at the local, national and global levels.

This workshop is inspired by the COP-26 meeting held in Glasgow, UK (31st Oct. to 12th Nov. 2021) and the UNFCCC’s work on gender, poverty, youth and climate change. However, papers and other contributions are welcome from all branches of study examining the history of sociological, political, economic, cultural and environmental ideas relating to social vulnerabilities and climate change adaptation. This two-day workshop will first look at discourses and policies related to climate change adaptation and gender mainstreaming (Day One). We will then look at how inclusion of earlier marginalised groups of people in decision-making and implementation processes can ensure the effectiveness of climate change adaptation activities on the ground (Day Two).

Who: Nottingham Trent University's International Security and Sustainability research group

Where: Bowden Room, Newton Building, Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU

When: Thursday 28 April 2022, 8.30 am to Friday 29 April 2022, 5 pm