Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Appendix 2: Workshop Agenda

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Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

AGENDA

FRIDAY, May 30 (8:30-5:30 & dinner): Stafford II, Room 595

MORNING

8:00-8:30 BREAKFAST (catered in conference room)

8:30-8:45 Introduction: Judith Sunley, Deputy Assistant Director, NSF Directorate for

Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences; Frank Scioli, Senior Advisor, NSF

Division of Social and Economic Sciences; Patricia White, NSF Sociology

Program Director

8:45-9:45 Self-Introductions: All workshop participants

9:15-10:00 Climate Change Studies in Sociology

•   What do we know about the sociological aspects of global climate change?

•   What research is underway?

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-12:30 Climate Change Studies Context: Agency Experts

•    What are the resources available to climate change sociology researchers (foundations,

agencies, funding sources)?

•    Who are the audiences/policy actors to whom our work should be addressed?

•    Theories and models of human and social dimensions of global climate change

12:30-1:30 LUNCH (catered in conference room)

Appendix 2: Workshop Agenda