This year, the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and the Faculty of Law are hosting the ninth cycle of "Comparative Political Life Conferences," featuring researchers in the social sciences and humanities whose work sheds light on major contemporary socio-political issues.
The second lecture in the series will take place on Thursday, February 13, 2020, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., in Lecture Hall 3 on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus, featuring Carola Klöck, a political science research assistant at the Center for International Research at Sciences Po Paris (CERI). She will speak on the topic of “The Multidimensional Challenges of Island States’ Adaptation to Climate Change.”
About Carola Klöck
She holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, has authored numerous publications, and has worked at several universities in Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Australia, and Fiji. Drawing on tools from international relations, public policy analysis, human geography, and development studies, she focuses specifically on island microstates (in the Pacific and elsewhere) and their responses to the consequences of climate change, both at the national and international levels. She has kindly agreed to present her current research on the strategies and impact of these states in climate negotiations. Her latest book, which she co-edited, is *Dealing with Climate Change on Small Islands: Toward Effective and Sustainable Adaptation* (Göttingen University Press, 2019, available online).
Learn more
- Open to the public, free admission
- Complete program for the 2020 series of "Comparative Political Life Lectures"
- Contact: Frédéric Caille, Associate Professor of Political Science at USMB