Logistics
Date: 22 March – 21 June 2022
Format: A series of training webinars ending with a hybrid stakeholder debate.
Background
The International Panel on Environmental History & Policy (EnvHist4P) is a global network of interdisciplinary scientists researching the relationship between past societies and their environmental history.
We are concerned in particular with past societal responses and adaptations to environmental stress, especially climatic change and epidemics. Our focus is on the Late Holocene, that is the last 3,000 years, the most recent period of human history, during which the first complex modern civilisations and economic systems emerged, leading into socio-economic globalisation, the Industrial Revolution and the onset of the Anthropocene.
Since at least the 1960s, environmental historians have been amassing evidence and gaining insights into past human interactions with climate and the ecosystems we formed part of over the course of history, from antiquity to the present day.
Description
Our learn-and-debate series is intended to facilitate and give momentum to this process. We will provide the environmental history community with the basic understanding of the ways by which science and policy interact, in particular in the European context, helping individuals and groups to engage in the policy making process.
Who should attend?
Our series is designed to offer knowledge that is necessary to step out of the academic silo and engage with stakeholders in the policy world. We therefore invite any scientists or humanists who feel this practical knowledge might be useful for their own policy outreach activities to join us and participate.
Format
Through a series of practical workshops and roundtable discussions, participants will be introduced to different policy actors and the process of policy engagement will be demystified. Channels for engagement will be explored, and researchers will leave equipped with the tools and practical skill-set to actively bridge their research and the policy community. The climax of our series is a hybrid event in Berlin, which will feature lightning talks on possible policy lessons by invited environmental historians, and a feedback debate with policy stakeholders.
Organizers
This series is a collaboration between the academic collectives Historians for Future, Climate Change and History Research Inititative and the International Advisory Panel on Environmental History and Policy, supported by the Centre for Grand Strategy at King’s College London, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
Session details
21 June 2022: 15:00 (CET)
Closing Discussion Among Webinar Participants
Chair: Adam Izdebski, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany
At this additional informal online meeting, we would like to create space for the participants to share their feedback on the series and ideas for possible future activities.
> Registrations will open at a later date
Visit the website for more information: https://envhist4p.shh.mpg.de/?page_id=432
More information
For more information, visit the website here: https://envhist4p.shh.mpg.de/?page_id=432