Research on Tap: Environmental Cultures, Power, and Equity

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Sustainability

Effective, results-driven climate research and policy work is often rooted in present-day solutions and new technologies and in a regional focus on the Global North. However, these approaches can lack important historical context about governance, culture, and religion that is essential for better understanding and responding to climate change.

This Research on Tap will bring together experts in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences to share research on how humans have inhabited, crafted meaning around, and dealt with power and inequity in their environments. We will additionally explore how to design and implement technological and social systems that can simultaneously sustain human well-being with equitable and effective responses to climate change.

Featuring: Cutler Cleveland (IGS Associate Director) and Caterina Scaramelli (IGS Affiliated Faculty) (hosts) | Wade Campbell | Madison Condon (IGS Affiliated Faculty) | Rebecca Copeland (IGS Affiliated Faculty) | Adriana Craciun | Joanna Davidson | James McCann | Madeleine Scammell | Anne Short Gianotti (IGS Core Faculty) | Benjamin Sovacool (IGS Director)