This year,Université Savoie Mont Blanc and the Faculty of Law are hosting the ninth series of "Comparative Political Life Lectures", featuring researchers in the social sciences and humanities whose work sheds light on major contemporary socio-political issues.
The second conference of the cycle will take place on Thursday February 13, 2020, from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, in amphitheatre 3 on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus, with Carola Klöck, political science assistant at the Centre de Recherches Internationales de SciencePo Paris (CERI). She will be speaking on the theme of "The multidimensional challenges of adapting island states to climate change".
About Carola Klöck
Holder of a PhD from ETH Zurich, she is already the author of numerous publications and has worked at several universities, in Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Australia and on the Fiji Islands. Using the tools of international relations and public policy analysis, human geography and development studies, she focuses on island micro-states (in the Pacific and elsewhere) and their responses to the consequences of climate change, both nationally and internationally. She has kindly invited us to present her current research on the strategies and impact of these states in climate negotiations. Her latest co-edited book is Dealing with climate change on small island: Toward effective and sustainable adaptation (Göttingten University Press, 2019, available online).
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- Open to the public, free admission
- Full program for the 2020 "Conférences de Vie Politique Comparée" series
- Contact: Frédéric Caille, HDR lecturer in political science at USMB