7 episodes

The Centre for Science and Policy and Christ's College have worked with Professor Charles Kennel, Emeritus Director at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to convene a series of seminars on Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions. The series will explore the cultural framings of climate change, to ask whether human understanding of global warming has affected our response to climate change.

Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions Cambridge University

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The Centre for Science and Policy and Christ's College have worked with Professor Charles Kennel, Emeritus Director at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to convene a series of seminars on Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions. The series will explore the cultural framings of climate change, to ask whether human understanding of global warming has affected our response to climate change.

    Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas - Q&A

    Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas - Q&A

    The audience discussion from Dr Hildegard Diemberger and Professor Brian Wynne's seminar on the tensions between globalised and localised experiences of climate change, part of the Multiple Dimensions of Climate Change series.

    • 30 min
    Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas - Part 2

    Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas - Part 2

    Professor Brian Wynne responds to Dr Hildegard Diemberger's talk and continues the discussion on the tensions between globalised and localised experiences of climate change in the final seminar of the Multiple Dimensions of Climate Change series.

    • 16 min
    Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas - Part 1

    Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas - Part 1

    Dr Hildegard Diemberger's talk on the tensions between globalised and localised experiences of climate change in the final seminar of the Multiple Dimensions of Climate Change series.

    • 39 min
    Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Environment, Our Responsibility - Part 2

    Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Environment, Our Responsibility - Part 2

    The second half of a discussion between Professor Charles Kennel, Lord Martin Rees, and Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta on combining natural and social scientific expertise to address the relationship between humanity and nature.

    • 45 min
    Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Environment, Our Responsibility - Part 1

    Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Environment, Our Responsibility - Part 1

    The first half of a discussion between Professor Charles Kennel, Lord Martin Rees, and Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta on combining natural and social scientific expertise to address the relationship between humanity and nature.

    • 51 min
    Confronting Climate Risks: Overcoming the 'Tragedy of the Horizons'

    Confronting Climate Risks: Overcoming the 'Tragedy of the Horizons'

    Rowan Douglas, Chairman of the Willis Research Network, discusses whether the major long term risks of climate change are unable to adequately influence short term business actions and public policy.

    • 39 min

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