Climate Change and Disaster

CHAIR: FISKE, Shirley (UMD)

ABSTRACT: This panel explores the nexus and disjunction of two powerful concepts in contemporary globaldiscourse-climate change and disaster. Climate change can be both
suddenonset and extreme events and can also be creeping and gradual..so in what ways does it intersect with disaster? The panel raises questions about howdisasters and
climate change are being defined, who does the defining, and what the definitions mean to communities and families. The papers examineaspects of community and family
disaster and climate change from the bottom up-from communities seeking relocation, undertaking ecological restorations, and anticipating aquatic disasters, to families
adapting to drought and extreme events.

DISCUSSANT: BLOUNT, Beniamin (SocioEcological Informatics)

Session Participants:
SADLER, Deborah and NELSON, Donald R. (U Georgia)
HOPKINS, Arlene (Skye Labs, Arlene Hopkins & Assoc) and MAACK, Stephen C. (Reap Change Consultants)
PETERSON. Kristina J. (UNO-CHART)
MARINO, Elizabeth (OR State U)
KANE, Stephanie C. (Indiana U)

Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.