330 - Thematic Session. Environmental Climate Change and Social Inequality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Climate change threatens all regions of the globe. Yet existing social inequalities are likely to affect the types of social responses as well as the effects climate change will have on populations. This panel will focus on social inequalities such as the "consumerist" response of the economically prosperous, the exacerbation of poverty and inequality in rural America, the varying responses of state and local governments within the United States, and the effects of climate change on the global South.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Ann M. Hironaka, University of California-Irvine

Presider

• Ann M. Hironaka, University of California-Irvine

Individual Presentations

• The American Culture of Consumption and the Enviroment - Andrew Szasz, University of California-Santa Cruz

• Energy Sacrifice Zones in the Rural United States: Social Inequality in the Era of Extreme Energy - Shannon Elizabeth Bell, University of Kentucky

• Climate Change and the Global South: Vulnerability, Responsibility, Identity, Solidarity and Resistance - J. Timmons Roberts, Brown University; David M. Ciplet, Brown University