Event & call for papers – THE FIFTH MAGRANN CONFERENCE – 6 – 17 April, 2009
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THE FIFTH MAGRANN CONFERENCE
Date: April 16-17, 20091
Location: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Climate Change in South Asia: Governance, Equity and Social Justice
Call for Papers
Climate change presents significant challenges for South Asia. While climate change is a global phenomenon, mitigation and adaptation are regional in character. Residents of agricultural and resource dependent areas increasingly face threats to livelihoods due to alterations in precipitation and temperature, such as the disruption of the South Asian monsoon. Concurrently, within South Asia’s dynamic and rapidly growing cities, the increasing frequency and magnitude of extreme climatic events may disrupt economic and social life. Although the effects of climate change on social and environmental systems are likely to be highly uneven (even between communities within South Asia), present trends in mitigation suggest that impoverished regions and populations may bear the brunt of these changes. This discrepancy is also evident in the ability to adapt and respond to climate change. Therefore, addressing climate change within the South Asian context will require new types of social institutions, cooperative responses and new forms of governance. In all cases, efforts to respond, mitigate, or adapt to climate change raise issues of equity and social justice, posing both challenges and opportunities for civil society.
We invite papers that address climate change issues within any country or region of South Asia. Preference will be given in paper selection to those that connect their topic to one or more of the broad conference themes of governance, equity, and social justice. Potential topic areas for papers include but are not limited to:
- Legal, Political, and Economic Frameworks for Responding to Climate Change
- Cultural, Social and Gender Implications of Climate Change
- Natural Resources Management and Land Use Practices Under Climate Change
- Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Cities and Urbanizing Regions
- Implications for Agriculture Under Changing Climatic and Hydrologic Regimes
- Technological Responses and Innovations
Papers are solicited from established scholars, as well as recent PhDs and advanced graduate students. Partial support will be available to presenters to defray the costs of travel. Abstracts of 250 words or less should be sent to the conference organizers on or before September 15, 2008. Final papers (approximately 4,000-6,000 words) will be due by March 1, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
- Conference Email: magrconf@rci.rutgers.edu
- Conference Website: http://magrann-conference.rutgers.edu
- Conf. Organizers: Trevor Birkenholtz; Monalisa Chatterjee; Robin Leichenko; Martin Bunzl; Sumit Guha
- Conference Sponsors: Department of Geography, Initiative on Climate and Social Policy, and Office of International Programs, Rutgers University
