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SUMMARY:Climate and Poverty in the Americas - Professor Diana Liverman
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CONTACT:Charlie Barlow
DESCRIPTION:How do the poor experience climate change and how are they aff
 ected by climate policy? Many scholars\, activists and policy makers have 
 suggested that climate change will have serious negative impacts on the mo
 st vulnerable – most often defined in terms of their poverty status. The
 y also argue that responses to climate change should be particularly sensi
 tive to the poorest people and countries that are most vulnerable and bear
  little responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions.   But as millions of 
 people emerge from poverty around the world – at least according to stan
 dard development indicators - the emissions of poorer countries increase. 
  Is this decline in poverty reflected in reduced climate vulnerability and
  increased capacity to adapt to climate change?\n\nThis lecture will first
  explore the idea of vulnerability\, its relation to poverty\, and how it 
 may be changing over time and space.  I will argue that we need to rethink
  the concept and measurement of vulnerability to capture the embodiment of
  climate change for individuals\, to incorporate insights from critical de
 velopment studies\, and to recognize that constructions of vulnerability a
 re used politically to make claims on limited climate aid.  Secondly I dev
 elop a framework\, grounded in political ecology\, for evaluating the impa
 cts of climate policies – emissions reductions\, carbon trading and offs
 ets\, and adaptation – on poor or marginalized people.  Can we develop r
 esponses to climate change that simultaneously reduce emissions\, help ada
 pt to a warmer climate\, and alleviate poverty and inequality?\n\nExamples
  will be drawn from a variety of research sites in the Americas\, includin
 g studies of vulnerability\, offsetting and adaptation in Mexico\, Northea
 st Brazil\, and the Southwestern United States.  These studies demonstrate
  the significance of varying technologies\, natures\, governance structure
 s and contexts in the successes and failures of understanding vulnerabilit
 ies and assessing the effectiveness of climate policy in the Americas. 
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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