April 5, 2023 | 4:00 pm | Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall, University of Florida

The Florida Climate Institute, in partnership with the UF College of Journalism and Communication, is pleased to host Melissa Aronczyk, an Associate Professor of Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. She is the co-author, with Maria Espinoza, of A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism (Oxford University Press, 2022). Her research on how PR affects our ability to communicate about climate change has been featured in The Nation, the Financial Times, Rolling Stone, CNBC, The Intercept, Grist, AdWeek, and Yes Magazine. She has also written stories about PR and sustainability for The Washington Post and Foreign Policy magazine.

The presentation and discussion will be followed by a reception with food and beverages.

Please join us and check out related press below:

• The Audacious PR Plot that Seeded Doubt about Climate Change, BBC, 23 July 2022.
• How PR Firms Captured the Sustainability Agenda, Foreign Policy, 17 Feb 2022.
• PR Worked for Big Oil. Can It Work for Climate Action? Grist, 22 Feb 2022.
• Spin Doctors Have Shaped the Environmentalism Debate for Decades,Washington Post, 21 Feb 2021.

Welcome to Species on the Move 2023
International Conference Series

This is the third iteration of the successful SOTM series. 2016 was held in Tasmania and 2019 in South Africa. SOTM 2023 is being hosted by the University of Florida in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA

On behalf of the 2023 Conference Convenors and Conference Committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome each and every one of you to Everglades National Park for what will be a rewarding, diverse and engaging Species on the Move International Conference Series held from May 15-19, 2023.

The conference brings together scientists and natural resource managers working in the disciplines of global change, biogeography and evolution, and relevant in contexts of natural resource management, biodiversity management and conservation, and theoretical ecology.

Species response to climate change is a rapidly evolving research field, however, much of our progress is being made in independent research areas: e.g. understanding the process vs responding to the implications, terrestrial vs marine ecosystems, global meta-analyses vs in depth species-specific approaches. This interdisciplinary conference develops connections between these parallel themes, and across temporal and spatial scales.

We hope you will make the journey to join us in the Everglades.

Dr. Brett Scheffers and Ms. Carolyn Cox

Conference Co-Convenors

The Columbia Climate School is pleased to announce this call for paper abstracts for the 2023 Managed Retreat conference, which will be held from 20-23 June at Columbia University in New York City. This year’s theme is “Habitability and Mobility in an Era of Climate Change.” We are inviting session proposals for traditional academic paper sessions, roundtable panels, and workshops, as well as paper and poster presentation abstracts.

Abstract submissions deadline: 20 January 2023 [submit here]

The topics of this year’s conference reflect most of the same themes, including a strong emphasis on equity concerns, as in past years, with the addition of some new topics specifically related to this year’s theme:

• Built environment (design and architecture; land use planning; infrastructure; urban planning)
• Buyouts and property acquisition
• Climate and social science for managed retreat (vulnerability; risk; opportunity)
• Communication strategies (storytelling; teaching about managed retreat; arts)
• Community resilience (community organizing; vulnerable populations; social psychology; mental health; crowding out; residents’ perspectives)
• Ecosystem conservation and migration
• Environmental justice and equity
• Finance and economics(market signals; real estate; insurance; capital markets)
• Governance, policy and planning (decision-making; international frameworks; federal management; state programs; local planning; multi-level policy coordination)
• Habitability (defining habitability; degrees of habitability; habitability for what and for whom?)
• Infrastructure Interdependencies
• Legal issues and tools (property rights; zoning & land use; immigration)
• Migration as adaptation/maladaptation (assisted relocation; voluntary movement) 
• Receiving areas (growth management and sustainable regional development)
• Sending areas (impacts on those left behind, involuntary immobility / trapped populations)
• Migrants and displaced persons (costs and benefits)
• Non-coastal changes in habitability and mobility (flood and riverine areas; drought and dryland expansion; temperature extremes; wildfire in the urban-wildland interface)
• Private sector perspectives (economic development strategies; corporate relocations; labor market dynamics) 
• Receiving community considerations

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