OAFP 7045 - Mapping the social risks of environmental transitions. An exploratory research seminar
The aim of this research seminar is to map the social risks associated with environmental transitions, ranging from the perspectives of environmental risks, the changes in economic sectors due to climate change and decarbonation strategies, to the social impacts of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. The course will start with a few introductory sessions (on social risks and new social risks, on environmental risks and how they have been coped with until now, on eco-social risks, including one or two case studies, such as flooding or heatwaves and vulnerabilities). We will then continue with collective research in order to collectively map the various social risks associated with different dimensions of environmental transitions. Two main questions will guide us: what are the risks? (for income, opportunities, health…) and who is most concerned by these risks? (socio-economic groups, professional sectors, gender disparities, generational differences, from a spatial point of view…). The aim of the seminar is to prepare the publications of working papers co-signed between teachers and students based on the work done within class.
Before the first sessions of the course taught by the four teachers, students are required to read the assigned text(s). For the other sessions, students will prepare questions, remarks and proposals for each session on the base of pre-circulated drafts.
No requirement
Spring 2023-2024
- Each student will produce a literature review on one topic connected to the group paper (35% of the grade).
- Students will work in small groups in analysing data, reports, grey and academic literature on one dimension studied in class and will propose their own mapping of the social risk on the topic studied. Students will focus on defining precisely what are the risks at stake in their domain of investigation and will analyse and count who are at risk. Students will send the draft of their work in advance so that each member of the seminar can prepare each session, they will present their results in class during a full session that they will be in charge of, and will deliver a final paper as a working paper on their topic (65% of the grade) that could eventually be published in the LIEPP working paper series if quality allows.
Research seminar based on collective discussion of prepared reports and presentations
Hirvilammi T, Häikiö L, Johansson H, Koch M and Perkiö J (2023) Social Policy in a Climate Emergency Context: Towards an Ecosocial Research Agenda. Journal of Social Policy 52(1): 1–23.
Gough, Ian (2017). Heat, Greed and Human Need. Climate change, Capitalism, and Sustainable Development. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Compston, H. and Bailey, I. (2008). Turning Down the Heat. The Politics of Climate Policy in Affluent Democracies. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Laurent, E. (2020). The New Environmental Economics: Sustainability and Justice. Polity Press.
Chancel, L. (2020). Unsustainable Inequalities. Social justice and the environment. Harvard University Press.
Gough I., Meadowcroft J., Dryzek J., Gerhards J., Lengfeld H.,, Markandya A., Ortiz R. (2008). JESP Symposium : Climate change and social policy, Journal of European Social Policy, 18(4), 325-344.
Tierney, K. (2014). The social roots of risk. In The Social Roots of Risk. Stanford University Press.
Steinberg, T. (2006). Acts of God: The unnatural history of natural disaster in America. Oxford University Press.