Talk – From Rights to Resilience: The Social Justice Dimensions of a Melting Environment

107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono

Speaker: Anne Henshaw, PhD, Oak Foundation In the mainstream media, images of polar bears perched on pans of melting ice continue to be emblematic of climate change and its immediate threats. While visually effective, do polar bears serve as an appropriate symbol for highlighting vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change, especially for the 400,000 […]

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