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Workshop 3: Securing the State: Domestic AgendasCall for papersPart of a series of seven workshops being held around the UK in 2008 to 2010, this workshop seeks explore how the state security apparatus is responding, and may respond in the future, to the issue of climate change. Much of the workshop’s focus is expected to be on Britain, although we welcome papers that explore other states and their security apparatuses. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in 2007 that, ‘most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.’ The report goes on to state that there are great uncertainties about the consequences of climate change, for example, it is ‘likely’ that drought will increase (meaning greater than a 66 per cent change). So, great scientific uncertainty remains over how climate change may affect humanity. However, political elites, security specialists, think tanks, and the military across the globe are now openly considering their ‘security’ responses to climate change. This workshop seeks to examine how states might respond to potential threat of climate change, alternatives to the most obvious military/police responses and the degree to which freedom might be curtailed in consequence. The conference invites papers from those working in academic disciplines in all areas of the sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as military analysts, and campaigners, researchers and practitioners from diverse institutional (or independent) backgrounds and perspectives. Issues the workshop might consider are:
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