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California delta wetlands: land-use change,
greenhouse gas emissions and subsidence
Dr. Oliver Sonnentag
Professeur adjoint
Département de géographie
Université de Montréal
Friday, February 3, 2012
3:30 pm
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
All are welcome to attend.
Coastal environments, sea level change,
and ancient hurricanes in Cuba
Dr. Matthew Peros
Assistant Professor, Bishop’s University
Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change
Friday, January 20, 2012
3:30 pm
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
All are welcome to attend.
Funding opportunities are now available to students of GEC3 members
Deadlines:
Stipends: January 20, 2012
Travel & Network Grants: February 10, 2012
For additional information click here.
Spécialiste en Scénarios climatiques /
Climate Scenarios Specialist
For additional information, please click here.
Congratulations to Alexandre Roy, recipient of an FQRNT International Internship Grant in support of a four-month internship at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Université Joseph Fournier in Grenoble, France. Alexandre is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of GEC3 member, Prof. Alain Royer, Département de géomatique appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke.
Vinaigrette or Oil and Vinegar?
Comparing Public Rationales for
Justice in Mitigation and Adaptation
Climate Policy Dilemmas
Dr. Sonja Klinsky
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge
The ideal relationship between climate change adaptation and mitigation policy has been long debated. Are they substitutes for each other, in which case the policy task is to find the optimal trade-off between the two, or can they be integrated to take advantage of win-win overlaps?
Instead of proposing how these policies should relate to one another from an abstract policy perspective, this study examines public rationales about justice and burden-sharing in each case. What arguments about justice resonate from a mitigation perspective, which ones are dominant from an adaptation perspective, and what might this suggest about the contours of politically acceptable climate policy?
Using think-aloud protocols and a structured elicitation approach with members of the lay public, this study provides evidence that the two types of climate policy trigger different sets of arguments about justice. When asked about mitigation burden-sharing participants overwhelmingly depending on arguments about causality. In contrast, in discussions of adaptation participants emphasized ideas of need and ability, and used social and spatial distance to modify the allocation of responsibility. Two considerations emerge from these findings.
First, the public is able to engage with the justice dilemmas of climate policy, suggesting that predictions of political palatability or public responses need to consider these concerns. Second, it is important to recognize that support for adaptation and mitigation policies stem from different arguments. This could make transition between mitigation and adaptation potentially much more difficult, especially if treated as complete substitutes.
Friday, March 25, 2011
3:30 pm
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
All are welcome to attend.
Université de Montréal
Département d’anthropologie
Équipe de recherche FQRSC
« Dispersion des Hominidés »
Conférences par
Dr. Gilles Ramstein
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LCSE)
Les climats de la Terre: l’impact des changements
climatiques passés sur l’Homme
Nous nous intéresserons aux régulations climatiques qui ont permis de maintenir à la surface de la Terre des conditions (température, cycle hydrologique…) compatibles avec la vie. Nous montrerons que par deux fois, cette régulation a failli au cours des 4 premiers milliards d’années. Enfin nous montrerons la spécificité du Quaternaire, les oscillations glaciaires interglaciaires, les impacts sur l’Homme et les conséquences à long terme du bouleversement climatique en cours.
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Dre. Masa Kageyama (LSCE),
W. Banks (U. Bordeaux), J. Mignot (LOCEAN, Paris),
D. Swingedouw, M.-N. Woillez (LSCE).
Comprendre l’environnement des derniers
Néanderthals: modélisation du
climat et de la végétation du LGM.
Le climat de la dernière période glaciaire est connu pour avoir été sujet à des fluctuations rapides et importantes. Dans ce séminaire, nous montrerons qu’il est possible, à l’aide de modèles numériques, de mieux comprendre ces variations et en particulier le lien entre l’évolution du climat en différents endroits du globe. L’impact de ces variations sur la végétation a également été simulé. Enfin, ces résultats en termes de climat seront interprétés en termes de niches écologiques ou écoculturelles en Europe de l’Ouest.
Le 10 mars, 16 heures,
B-3340, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Please note that the powerpoint presentation of “What Questions Should We Be Asking About Gas Shale?” by Dr. Robert W. Howarth (David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Cornell University) is now available.
McGill’s first annual Sustainability Symposium will take place on March 4th, 2011 from 9h30 to 5h at the Thompson House Ballroom (3650 McTavish, McGill Campus).
We welcome faculty, students, alumni and the general public to this all day event to take place at the ballroom of Thomspon House. The symposium will feature inspirational guest speakers, a poster session for graduate and undergraduate students to showcase current research or class projects, and a “world-cafe” discussion. The keynote speaker for this event is Jonathan Foley, current director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, whose work focuses on the complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies.
The field of sustainability crosses all departmental lines, and we welcome a diversity of approaches to sustainability. Graduate and undergraduate students in all faculties and departments are encouraged to participate in the poster session. If your work addresses any aspect of sustainability (environmental, economic, or social) on any scale, this is a wonderful opportunity to share your research with other members of the McGill community who share similar interests. There will be three $200 cash prizes for poster winners.
Registration for the symposium is now open!
To register for the event or to learn more about us, please visit our website or our Facebook page. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at sustainability.symp@gmail.com.
- The MSS Team
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About GEC3 ~ C3EG The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) is a cross-disciplinary, multi-university research centre bringing together more than 40 researchers from six Quebec universities to study processes, modelling and impact of environmental and climate change. Our member institutions are: McGill University, Condordia University, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, Bishop's University, Université Laval and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique.
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