443
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Progress and Pitfalls in Low-Carbon Transition

Monday, 16 July 2018: 17:30-19:20
Location: 716A (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC24 Environment and Society (host committee)

Language: English

In environmental sociology, we often point to the structural determinants of climate change’s causes and consequences, like capitalism, consumerism, and democratic institutions. Many researchers, within environmental sociology and in related fields, have expanded upon this research base to include attention toward organizational efforts to foster institutional changes capable of supporting low-carbon transition pathways, emanating from federal ministries, municipal governments, businesses, and social movement organizations, among others. Considering the numerous calls for low-carbon transition, exploring the likelihood for such organizational shifts in the many sectors of our economies and societies by evaluating organizational efforts to do so on the ground can shed light on the capacity for climate-induced institutional change, and how that capacity may vary depending on all manner of organizational attribute, and socio-political-economic context. In this session, we invite papers offering conceptual or empirical analyses of organizational responses to climate change, either intended to facilitate mitigation or adaptation, with the goal of providing a rich collection of accounts from different perspectives, regions and organizations, all exploring the institutional capacity for low-carbon transition.
Session Organizers:
Debra DAVIDSON, University of Alberta, Canada and Lianne LEFSRUD, University of Alberta, Canada
Oral Presentations
443.1
Envisioning Energy Futures in the Oil Industry: Avoidance, Persistence, and Resilience As Responses to Climate Change and the Low-Carbon Transition
Mark STODDART, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Patrick MCCURDY, University of Ottawa, Canada; Cory COLLINS, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
443.2
Heterogeneous Corporate Responses to Climate Change: Empirical Evidence from China
Yuan Zheng LI, Laval University, Canada
443.3
Can Farmers be Climate Leaders? Seeking Climate Change Innovation in Unlikely Places.
Debra DAVIDSON, University of Alberta, Canada; Lianne LEFSRUD, University of Alberta, Canada
443.5
Adaptive Governance in Portugal: Breaking New Ground in Stakeholder Engagement
Luisa SCHMIDT, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Carla GOMES, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Adriana ALVES, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Joao MOURATO, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
443.6
Responses to FOOD Crises and Climate Crisis in Norwegian Agriculture. Regime Flexibility and Robustness
Jostein BROBAKK, Center for Rural Research, Norway
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