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2016 Film Series: Human Dimensions Of Climate Change, Cindy Isenhour, Jennifer Bonnet
2016 Film Series: Human Dimensions Of Climate Change, Cindy Isenhour, Jennifer Bonnet
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
In the spring of 2016, Cindy Isenhour and Jen Bonnet coordinated the third annual Human Dimensions of Climate Change film series, sponsored by Fogler Library, the Climate Change Institute, and the Departments of Anthropology, Political Science, and Communication and Journalism. Each week for three weeks a different film was shown, followed by discussion with campus scholars. A library exhibit accompanied the series and highlighted a wide range of resources related to the topic, http://libguides.library.umaine.edu/humans-climate.
Decoupling And Displaced Emissions On Swedish Consumers, Chinese Producers And Policy To Address The Climate Impact Of Consumption, Cindy Isenhour
Decoupling And Displaced Emissions On Swedish Consumers, Chinese Producers And Policy To Address The Climate Impact Of Consumption, Cindy Isenhour
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
New developments in consumption-based emissions accounting suggest that the reductions claimed by wealthy, environmentally progressive nations have often come at the expense of increased emissions elsewhere – and thus net growth in global GHG concentrations. This paper traces Sweden's attempts to translate growing recognition of displaced emissions into national environmental policy. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research and policy analysis in Sweden and China, we argue that while the logical implications of consumption-based analyses point to the need to address production and consumption as an integrated system, complex governance challenges and the political precariousness of these ideas have thus far limited …