31 October 2024, 15.00-16.00
Storylines of Societal Responses to Unprecedented Socio-Climatic Extremes
About
- A session with Dr. Maria Rusca from the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute, exploring how societal responses to intensifying climate extremes are shaped by political, economic, and social forces. Dr. Rusca will introduce the Plural Climate Storylines Framework, which highlights how politics and power shape responses to future socio-climatic risks.
Key Topics
- The concept of climate storylines and their application to societal responses.
- Multiscale societal responses to climate extremes and their uneven impacts.
- Political and economic drivers in climate risk management.
Insights
- The key contribution, “Scenarios of Human Responses to Unprecedented Social-Environmental Extreme Events” (co-authored with Gabriele Messori and Giuliano Di Baldassarre), tackles the increasingly urgent need to understand how different societal groups might respond to future climate extremes, offering an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the socio-environmental impacts of unprecedented events.
Link to the publication - For a deeper understanding of the ideas in this paper, we also recommend her recent work “Speculative Political Ecologies: (re)imagining urban futures of climate extremes” (co-authored with Maurizio Mazzoleni, Alejandro Barcena, Elisa Savelli, Gabriele Messori) . This paper explores how climate extremes shape urban futures, drawing on political ecology to critically engage with social and environmental inequalities.
Link to the publication
Speaker
- Dr. Maria Rusca, Presidential Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.
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