Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 10:00-16:00

Work, Climate Change and Sustainability

Work, Climate Change, Sustainability: Exploring just transition and beyond

Social Sciences Building

Cowling Room S 2.77

With the inauguration of the ILO Global Forum on Just Transition in late 2017, the concept of ‘just transition’ – for some time now promoted by labour movements – has been mainstreamed into policy debates on climate change-related economic and industrial adaptation, or eco-modernisation. Yet what just transition entails and, crucially, what renders it just in different contexts is not straight forward. Participants in this seminar will examine the promises, limitations, and contestations around just transition as a concept and a strategy. They will also consider what such a transition might entail from the perspective of subsistence economies, or those that are developing or emerging.

Confirmed Speakers:
Sam Adelman (Warwick), Stefania Barca (Coimbra), Alice Mah (Warwick), Vivian Price (Cal State), Nora Räthzel (Umea), Paolo Tomassetti (ADAPT, Modena Reggio Emilia), David Uzzell (Surrey), Ania Zbyszewska (Warwick)

Organized by Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) Funded by LDC RAS Network Fund, Department of Sociology, School of Law

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