Cabot Institute Seminar Series

Energy and climate change policy and regulation cannot be based on science alone.  Both policy areas address problems that are defined by complex interactions between people and the environment that are mediated by inherently political social processes.  They also deal with future uncertainties.  In turn, their solutions incorporated into policy instruments contain within themselves highly political choices made by both scientists and policy-makers.  This seminar series brings together research that illuminates both the politics of the process through which those choices have been taken and the effects of those policies.

 

26 October: Understanding the social impacts of UK climate change policies

Professor David Gordon and Eldin Fahmy

Discussants: Professor Harriet Bradley (Bristol) & Lorraine Whitmarsh (Tyndall Centre/Cardiff University)

Seminar Room, Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol

 

All are welcome to this series of 4 seminars convened by Elizabeth Fortin (School of Law) to discuss and debate different aspects of energy and climate change policy.  A light lunch will be provided.

More information: e.fortin@bristol.ac.uk

Download the poster for this seminar (PDF 124kb): 26 October 2011 (PDF, 123kB)