OUTSTEPS Symposium - Reinventing Regions in a Changing Climate (1 - The Great Lakes): Approaches to Resilience, Rustbelts, and Resistance
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/27/2022
Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Time: 9:20 AM
Theme: Climate Justice
Sponsor Group(s):
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
, Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Sharon Moran
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Chairs(s):
Chris Renschler, University at Buffalo (SUNY
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Description:
Entire swaths of nation-states in North America, Europe, and other regions around the World are now coping with the legacies of industrial exploitation facing de-industrialization and disinvestment, with the urgency of adapting to climate change. Governance practices characterized by neoliberalism have given rise to mixed patterns of support for sustainable practices. Examples of resistance to the dominant social paradigm of continued exploitation are organizations advocating alternative futures such as: social movements problematizing sacrifice zones; mutual aid organizations providing disaster response; and Indigenous communities working toward decolonized relationships with the natural world.
This series of sessions centers on papers that use these regions as a way to interrogate the dynamics of socio-ecological systems in our era, globally, inviting papers that highlight regional approaches to studying how patterns are being resisted and (re)produced in regions where industries have departed. The series of sessions includes a expert panel and is intended for researchers, stakeholders and Indigenous Rightsholders working on regions reinventing themselves in the context of global climate and related changes in communities.
The discussions are facilitated by geographers of the OUTSTEPS.org Network, and will draw upon the United Nations Sustainability Goals.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Sharon Moran, SUNY-ESF; Reconsidering the Region: the hydrosphere, the rustbelt, and climate change |
Christian Renschler, U.S. Department of Agriculture; OUTSTEPS of the Usual Path: Building a Regional Research Network focused on just sustainability and community resilience in the Lower Great Lakes. |
Sujata Shetty, University of Toledo; Protecting the Lake: Water and Resistance in a Rustbelt City |
Shriya Rangarajan, ; Influences of social capital on the resilience of local food networks: A case-study in Upstate New York |
Shaunna Barnhart, Bucknell University; Review of a Field Station Model for Sustainable Communities: Bucknell University’s Coal Region Field Station. |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
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| Discussant | Sujata Shetty |
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OUTSTEPS Symposium - Reinventing Regions in a Changing Climate (1 - The Great Lakes): Approaches to Resilience, Rustbelts, and Resistance
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Christian Renschler - chris.renschler@usda.gov
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