The Human Side of Climate Change
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LINGCLIM arranges a multidisciplinary conference on climate change.
Over the last two decades, the human side of climate change has attracted increasing attention from scholars from the social sciences and humanities 鈥� developing into a prolific, rich and truly multidisciplinary effort, with contributions from fields as varied as media and communication science, political science, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, computational science, discourse analysis and linguistics. The kinds of data sources and materials that have been studied are as manifold as the different disciplinary approaches, ranging from the analysis of textual materials 鈥� such as scientific papers, policy reports, newspaper articles, blogs and other social media 鈥� to methodological approaches such as experiments and opinion surveys.
At this conference, 16-17 October 2015,听the LINGCLIM project focuses on the current state of the research field. More specifically, we ask the following questions:
What have been the contributions of the multiple research approaches
1) to the individual disciplines and to overarching interdisciplinary research
2) to knowledge about the many facets of the human side of climate change, and
3) to society and policymakers.
In addition to paper presentations, including some by LINGCLIM members,听 the following leading scholars from various disciplines present their recent research with a focus on one or several of the questions above:
Eystein Jansen: Professor, Department of Earth Science/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Norway: 鈥�Uncertainties, risks and opportunities as viewed from recent climate research鈥�
Michael D. Jones: Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, US: 鈥�Culture and Climate Change: A Storied Examination of Norwegian Public Opinion鈥�
Irene Lorenzoni: Dr., Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK: 鈥�Reflecting on the 鈥榰nusual鈥�: climate change narratives in decision making about the future鈥�
Brigitte Nerlich: Professor, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK: 鈥�Metaphors in climate change discourse鈥�
Matthew Nisbet: Associate Professor of Communication, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, US: 鈥�Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals, the Media, and Discourses about Climate Change鈥�
Nick Pidgeon: Professor, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK: 鈥�Public Perceptions of Climate Change: Key Trends and Emerging Issues鈥�
Mike S. Sch盲fer: Professor, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Z眉rich, Switzerland: 鈥�Climate Change 鈥� A Global Problem in a Global Public Sphere?鈥�
脡lodie Vargas:听Ass Prefessor, Universit茅 Stendhal, Grenoble 3, France: "Climate Change: Discourses and representations in advertisements"
Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate and Culture, Department of Geography, School of Social Science & Public Policy, King鈥檚 College London
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