Human geographies of climate change adaptation

Dates

15-16 May 2024, with social activities on 17 May, after the Norway national day’s parade. 

Location

Bergen, Norway.

Participants targeted

Whether or not you have a degree in human geography, we want to hear from you if you are researching climate change adaptation through a human geography lens.

Scientific committee members

• Jon Barnett (University of Melbourne)

• James Ford (University of Leeds)

• Lisa Schipper (University of Bonn)

• Gina Ziervogel (University of Cape Town)

Keynote speakers

• Neil Adger (University of Exeter)

• Marina Baldissera Pacchetti (University College London and Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

Conference themes

• Theme #1 — Adaptation in the Arctic: lessons that can be learned from the Arctic in terms of how rapid climate change is experienced and responded to, with insights on, for example, maladaptation, climate justice and adaptation processes.

• Theme #2 — Adaptation limits: are we pursuing the pointless?

• Theme #3 — Political economies of adaptation: insights on power and justice.

• Theme #4 — Methodologies for just adaptation: approaches to (i) studying and understanding adaptation; (ii) combining multiples sources of knowledge, namely Indigenous, practitioners, scientific and local; and (iii) engaging communities and decision makers.

• Theme #5 — Adaptation metrics and assessments: approaches to (i) shaping up the adaptation metrics dialogue, to avoid a reductionist quantitative exercise; and (ii) synthesising the rapidly expanding adaptation knowledge base and creating usable science, to inform decision making processes, the global stocktake, and IPCC and other assessments, for example through machine learning and artificial intelligence, systematic reviews, and meta-syntheses.

• Theme #6 — Adaptation practice: insights on (i) social innovation; (ii) cross-scalar measures that transcend governance levels and North-South divides; and (iii) alternatives to the anthropocentrism inherent to current adaptation policy.

Honorary award

To the paper that makes a significant contribution to intersectionality in the context of human geographies of adaptation to climate change.

Registration

We cannot take on any additional registration, as all the seats have been booked.

Abstract submission

It is no longer possible to submit an abstract.

Conference fee

The conference fee is EUR 175, payable through a weblink you will receive by e-mail once you have registered.

Transportation

From Oslo, the Bergen Railway takes you to Bergen in about seven hours, “through some of the most beautiful landscapes in Norway”.

Accommodation

The following hotels offer special rate to conference participants (NB: bookings need to be made before 13 March 2024):

• Clarion Hotel Bergen: 1,990 NOK per night per 1 person, including breakfast, available through this link.

• Comfort Hotel Bergen: 1,690 NOK per night per 1 person, including breakfast, available through this link 

• Scandic Bergen City: 1,490 NOK per night per 1 person (1,790 NOK per night per 2 persons), including breakfast, available by writing to bergencity@scandichotels.com and stating that you will participate in the UiB conference “Human geographies of climate change adaptation” 

• Scandic Neptun: 1,490 NOK per night per 1 person (1,790 NOK per night per 2 persons), including breakfast, available by writing to neptun@scandichotels.com and stating that you will participate in the UiB conference “Human geographies of climate change adaptation" 

Support for participants

Unfortunately, we cannot provide financial support or waive the attendance fee.