Event details

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale. 

Workshops are open to all York researchers, and will aim to develop research project ideas driven by social science approaches and methods, although researchers from other disciplines are welcome.

Session 3: Just transitions and power relationships

The notion of just transitions suggests a potential for climate change actions that are equitable across multiple dimensions of society, foregrounding the opportunity for social transformation and underlying questions of power, agency, inclusion and recognition. However, securing just transitions is fraught with difficulty, contending with trade-offs, histories of exclusion, marginalisation or denigration, or poorly suited decision making institutions at multiple scales and with consequences across institutional or jurisdictional boundaries. This workshop will explore transition challenges from multiple social-science perspectives, identifying pathways to understandings, principles or practices that unlock the potential for futures that enhance the wellbeing of all.

Full Session List

This session is part of a series exploring different aspects of climate change and social sciences including:

Session 1: Working with uncertainty and systems thinking (30th October)
Session 2: Envisaging futures and authentic co-production (2nd December)
Session 3: Just transitions and power relationships (12th Feb)
Session 4: Co-benefits and synergies (14th May)

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