SGER: Workshop: Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

堪萨斯大学的PIs寻求支持召开一个关于“全球气候变化的社会学观点”的研讨会。这次研讨会是第一次系统地让社会学家参与这个紧迫的全球关注的问题。研讨会的目标是阐明社会学对美国国家科学院（National Academy of Sciences）认定的21世纪重大挑战之一的潜在基础科学贡献——理解气候变化的人类层面。社会学家有一系列的理论观点和方法论工具，可以用来研究这个问题。研讨会将汇集研究气候变化的社会学家，以及研究相关主题但尚未涉及与气候有关的全球变化问题的社会学家。ppi还计划邀请非社会学家，他们是气候研究人类层面的关键领导者，帮助将社会学界与正在进行的努力和重要机构联系起来。2008年研讨会设想通过制定一项研究议程来进行能力建设，该议程：(1)确定关于气候变化和与气候变化有关的主题的既定社会学知识的核心领域和差距；(2)促进从事气候相关研究的社会学家之间的互动和合作；(3)促进对全球气候变化的原因和后果进行新的社会学研究；(4)阐述了将社会学视角纳入跨学科气候变化研究的潜力。研讨会参与者将聚焦社会学家从事气候变化学科和跨学科研究的挑战和机遇，并以此拓宽研究全球气候变化的社会学和其他学者的数量和视角。研讨会涉及社会学家以前没有进行过重要研究的领域。例如，美国社会学协会（ASA） 2007年年会的日程安排列出了一个关于全球气候变化的会议。今后计划在美国气候学会举行的会议以及讲习班论文和会议记录的散发将突出社会学对全球气候变化研究的重要性和潜在贡献。研讨会的广泛影响有三个方面。具体来说，这次会议将(1)提高社会学开展气候变化研究的能力；(2)激发对具有重要历史意义的全球问题提供解决方案的研究；(3)扩大社会学对全球气候变化跨学科研究和教育的参与。简而言之，它将有助于加强社会学研究，为有关气候变化的科学和政策辩论提供信息。

SES- 0744020Joan NagelJeffery BroadbentThomas DietzUniversity of KansasThe PIs seek support to convene a workshop on "Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change." This workshop represents a first effort to systematically engage sociologists on this issue of pressing global concern. The goal of the workshop is to articulate Sociology's potential basic scientific contributions to what the National Academy of Sciences has identified as one of grand challenges of the 21st century--understanding the human dimensions of climate change. Sociologists have an array of theoretical perspectives and methodological tools that can be bought to bear on the subject. The workshop would bring together sociologists who are addressing climate change in their research as well as sociologists, who work on related topics, but have not yet engaged questions of climate-related global change. The PIs also plan to invite non-sociologists who are key leader in human dimensions of climate research to help link the sociological community to ongoing efforts and important agencies. The 2008 workshop envisions capacity building through the development of a research agenda that: (1) identifies core areas of and gaps in established sociological knowledge about climate change and topics related to climate change; (2) facilitates interaction and collaboration among sociologists working on climate-related research, (3) catalyzes new sociological research on the causes and consequences of global climate change; and (4) articulates the potential for the incorporation of sociological perspective in interdisciplinary climate change research. Workshop participants will spotlight challenges and opportunities for sociologists to engage in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on climate change and in doing so broaden the number and perspectives of sociological and other scholars who study global climate changeThe workshop addresses an area in which sociologists have not previously conducted significant research. For example, the program for the 2007 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA) lists one session on global climate change. Planned future sessions at ASA and the dissemination of workshop papers and proceedings will highlight both the importance, and potential contributions of sociology to the study of global climate change. The workshop's broader impacts are threefold. Specifically, the meeting will (1) increase sociology's capacity to conduct climate change research, (2) motivate research that contributes solutions to a global problem of historical importance and (3) expand sociological participation in interdisciplinary research and education about global climate change. In short, it will contribute to enhanced sociological research to help inform scientific and policy debates about climate change.