Confronting the Climate Crisis: Slow Geographies and Relational Approaches to International Research

Fent, Ashley; Gibb, Christine; Ishihara, Sachiko; Holler, Joseph; Moseley, William G

doi:10.1080/00330124.2021.1915827

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“…Scientific conferences allow participants to exchange knowledge, techniques, and perspectives via presentation of current work and through formal and informal discussions, thus stimulating new relationships, ideas, and research ( Parncutt et al, 2021 ). Yet, in-person meetings often exclude or marginalize individuals who identify as queer or transgender, require childcare or are lactating, face visa restrictions, and possess restricted travel budgets ( Klöwer et al, 2020 ; Sarabipour et al, 2021 ; Fent et al, 2022 ; Gregor et al, 2023 ). Further, they rely on aircraft to convene, which accounted for 3.5% of net anthropogenic global warming in 2018 ( Lee et al, 2021 ).…”

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Recommendations Emerging from Carbon Emissions Estimations of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Kay,

Kuper,

Becker

2023

eNeuro

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The annual Neuroscience meeting yields significant, measurable impacts that conflict with the environmental commitment of the society and IPCC’s recommendations to address the climate emergency (IPCC, 2018). We used 12,761 presenters’ origins, two online carbon calculators, and benchmark values to estimate 2018 meeting-related travel, event venue operations, and hotel accommodation emissions. Presenters’ conference travel resulted in between 17,298 and 8,690 t CO2, with or without radiative forcing index factors. Over 92% of authors traveled by air and were responsible for over 99% of total travel-related emissions. Extrapolations based upon 28,691 registrants yielded between 69,592.60 t CO2e and 38,010.85 t CO2from travel. Comparatively, authors’ and registrants’ hotel accommodation emissions equaled 429 and 965 t CO2e, whereas operation of the San Diego Convention Center equaled about 107 t CO2e. We relate SfN meeting-related emissions to potential September Arctic sea ice loss, labor productivity loss in lower-income equatorial countries, and future temperature-related deaths. We estimate emissions reductions of between 23 to 78 percent by incentivizing between 10 and 50 percent of the most distant registrants to attend virtually or connecting between two and seven in-person hubs virtually. Completely virtual meetings may yield a reduction of over 99% relative to centralized in-person meetings and increase participation of women, queer and transgender scientists, and scientists from low- and middle-income countries. We strongly recommend adopting alternative meeting modes such as 4 or more in-person global hubs connected virtually by 2030 and fully virtual by 2050.Significance Statement“Rapid,” “far-reaching,” and “unprecedented” systems transitions that result in “deep [greenhouse gas] emissions reductions in all sectors” are needed to limit global warming to 1.5° C (IPCC, 2018, p. 17). Our emissions estimations from the 2018 SfN conference venue, hotel accommodations, and travel indicate that most presenting authors traveled by air and emitted tens of thousands of tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide, as Aron and colleagues (2020) suggested. Among known impacts, SfN conference-related emissions likely yield measurable September Arctic sea ice and labor productivity losses, and future temperature-related deaths. Our mathematical exploration of scenarios that reduce conference-related emissions that adhere to the IPCC’s reduction recommendations clearly and immediately impact the means of meeting and disseminating future work in neuroscience.

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Recommendations Emerging from Carbon Emissions Estimations of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Kay,

Kuper,

Becker

2023

eNeuro

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Sustainable and inclusive; transforming residential undergraduate fieldtrips in an age of the climate crisis

Gonzalez

2024

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Experimenting with Water-Focused Participatory Research Methods

Cohen,

Abrams,

Høybye

2024

Environmental Humanities

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Recent decades have seen a transformation in how water and human-water interrelations are conceptualized in the environmental humanities and social sciences. Such adaptation of theory has been tied to an interest in developing transdisciplinary water research methodologies, particularly in projects focused on practical outcomes. Nonetheless, this article’s authors note an incongruence in how such advances in theory are often not actually applied in practice. Going a small way toward addressing this, the authors argue that there is space for experimenting with more-than-human participatory research praxes to intentionally generate previously imponderable questions. This article describes the authors’ experiences in Aarhus, Denmark, of combining “floating seminar” and arts-based methods, including body maps and public engagement. Through these experiences with passersby-who-became-participants, and with the nonhuman world, the authors’ attentions were drawn to unexpected issues and questions centered on human-water relationships. Here, they reflect on emerging methodologies, and invite curious others to join them in developing them further.

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Confronting the Climate Crisis: Slow Geographies and Relational Approaches to International Research

Cited by 3 publications

References 60 publications

Recommendations Emerging from Carbon Emissions Estimations of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Recommendations Emerging from Carbon Emissions Estimations of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Sustainable and inclusive; transforming residential undergraduate fieldtrips in an age of the climate crisis

Experimenting with Water-Focused Participatory Research Methods

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