Climate change event a success
Date Released: 05 May 2010Over 70 academics and environment experts attended today's (5 May) event exploring society's responses to climate change. The event, 'The state we're in: society's responses to climate change' was organised by the Edinburgh Consortium for Rural Research and SNIFFER.
Using new analytical perspectives, evidence and insights from social science as well as data from surveys and from case-study analyses, the meeting focused on:
- public responses to scientists' and policy makers' ideas about climate change
- public responses to policies (such as the promotion of renewables) that are linked to threats from the changing climate
- public perceptions of today's key environmental challenges and effect on lifestyle choices
We hope to make speaker presentations available on our website over the next few days. Meantime, the event's programme is outlined below.
13.30
Welcome by Professor Stuart Monro, Director Our Dynamic Earth
Introduction to the event - Professor Steven Yearley, University of Edinburgh
13.45
The challenge for Scotland – SEABS: the Scottish environmental attitudes and behaviours survey 08. Chris Martin, Ipsos-MORI
14.15
The challenge for society– Rachel Nunn, Going Carbon Neutral Stirling
14.45
Q&A session with the speakers (chair: Steven Yearley)
15.15
Tea and coffee
15.30
The challenge for knowledge - Understanding informed opposition to environmental policies and projects: The need for more than information provision. Dr Mhairi Aitken, Research Centre for Social Sciences
16.00
The challenge in practice - Responses to/through forestry. Dr Chris Quine, Centre for Human and Ecological Sciences, Forest Research
16.30
Q&A Session with the speakers (chair: Ruth Wolstenholme, SNIFFER)
Summing up: Professor Stuart Monro
17.00
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