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SUMMARY:The political ecology of polar bear conservation: a circumpolar po
 licy trainwreck - Doug Clark\, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
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CONTACT:Peadar Brehony
DESCRIPTION:Polar bears were one of the first globally-recognized icons in
  public discourse about climate change. Unfortunately for the aims of thos
 e deploying the bears as a symbol\, they haven’t died off at the rates p
 reviously predicted and have not become an effective political lever to re
 duce greenhouse gas emissions. Instead\, nation-states have indulged in "f
 ig-leaf" policies intended to ameliorate political pressure while avoiding
  dealing with the underlying issue of climate change. Consequently\, polar
  bear conservation policies have not so far resulted in any biologically m
 eaningful conservation outcomes. Scientists and conservation advocates hav
 e faced considerable difficulty reconciling the emerging awareness of biop
 hysical complexity and context-specificity in polar bears’ responses to 
 a warming Arctic with the simplistic narrative more commonly promoted. Tak
 en together\, these interacting processes have tended to marginalize Arcti
 c Indigenous Peoples and their knowledge and exacerbate political-economic
  and cultural divides. As the Arctic continues to warm\, nonlinear impacts
  such as ecological regime shifts are underway and abrupt habitat loss for
  entire bear populations is possible. The concurrent drawdown of social ca
 pital from conflicts over polar bears makes collaborative effort for conse
 rving polar bears and their habitat increasingly unlikely\, despite being 
 more necessary than ever. 
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101 (first floor)\, Downing Site\, Cambridge
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