The seminar seeks to discuss the relationships between population, space and environment with special emphasis to some urgent questions to the field of environmental studies regarding climate change. One of the main challenges to insert the human dimensions of global environmental change into the population studies is the articulation of scales. The spatial and temporal scales used in the field of humanities often do not adhere to the scales used by the Natural and Climate Sciences, which use historical series and projections of long-term geological scales. It is therefore important to constitute new paradigms able to match the scales of analysis of both scientific traditions in order to produce interdisciplinary studies that can be integrated harmoniously and make sense, especially for public policy on intra-urban scale (where they are effectively applied to the population).
The event will be a joint effort of the Working Group Population, Space and Environment (GT-PopEA) of the Brazilian Association for Population Studies (ABEP) and of the Brazilian Network for Climate Change Research (RedeCLIMA) in the context of the subnet Cities and Climate Change. This group has been working in the discussion of these issues for several years, but this event is considered an important moment of discussion for scholars to reflect on theoretical and methodological approaches and analytical tools that incorporate the temporal and spatial dimensions as analytical units capable of application on social policies.
The target audience is of researchers, professors, graduate students and professionals related to studies on population, environment and climate change. The seminar will be organized into three days of activities, including an opening conference, two roundtables composed of experts from different fields of knowledge and two sessions (with call for papers) inviting researchers to submit work in progress with regard to environmental interfaces: the spatial dimension as unit of analysis, the demands for interdisciplinarity and theoretical and methodological approaches to deal with these challenges.deal with these challenges.