My Favorite Newsletter: Event: Solving the Climate Change Challenge

2015년 2월 17일 화요일

Event: Solving the Climate Change Challenge

You are invited...

Why the Social Sciences Matter: Solving the Climate Change Challenge

Hosted by Palgrave Macmillan & Nature Publishing Group

When? Thursday, 19 February 2015 from 18:30 to 20:00 (GMT)
Where? The Stables, 2 Trematon Walk, Wharfdale Road, London N1 9SB

Today's society is on the brink of new possibilities, yet it also faces challenges and problems. Climate change is arguably the greatest of these issues, beset by the need for international co-operation on the grandest scale.

A new book, Why The Social Sciences Matter, examines a range of problems facing society today (including climate change) and considers possible solutions. It illuminates why a social scientific understanding gives us a grasp on a topic that would not be provided by those working in the fields of science, humanities or the arts alone; in other words, this book makes plain what is distinctive and invaluable about a social science perspective.

Keeping that social science perspective in mind, we invite scientists, social scientists and other great minds to debate possible practical solutions to the climate change challenge in our London venue.

Panel

Chair: Connie St Louis, a freelance broadcaster, journalist, writer and scientist and director of City University London's Science Journalism MA.

Jonathan Michie, Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, Director of the Department for Continuing Education, President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford and editor of Why the Social Sciences Matter.

Alastair Brown, Senior Editor at Nature Climate Change.

John Urry, distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University and contributor to Why the Social Sciences Matter.

This event is organised in partnership with the Academy of Social Sciences and its Campaign for Social Science.