Join us next Thursday for the Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy
and Environmental Policy Forum, which will take place on Thursday, February 23
at 3.30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center.
Maxine Burkett, from University of Hawai’i will give a 45 minute presentation and
then lead a discussion with participants. Maxine will be appearing via live
weblink. Her talk is titled:
The Nation Ex-Situ: On Climate Change, Deterritorialized Nationhood and the
Post-Climate Era
Description: It is plausible that the impacts of climate change will render
certain nation-states uninhabitable before the close of the century. While this
may be the fate of a small number of those nation-states most vulnerable to
climate change, its implications for the evolution of statehood and international
law in a “post-climate” regime is potentially seismic. Professor Burkett argues
that international law could accommodate an entirely new category of
international actors, the Nation Ex-Situ. Professor Burkett introduces the notion
of a post-climate era, in which the very structure of human systems—be they
legal, economic, or socio-political—are irrevocably changed and ever-changing.
Maxine Burkett is Associate Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson
School of Law at University of Hawai‘i. Her current research examines "climate
justice” and the disparate impact of climate change on vulnerable communities
in the United States and globally. Maxine is the inaugural Director of the Center
for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy, which has projects addressing climate
change law, policy, and planning for island communities in Hawai‘i, the Pacific
region, and beyond.
The Baker Center discussion forum is an opportunity for academics to share
their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers, and students
from outside their own discipline but who have a common interest in
environmental and energy issues. For more information about the Baker Center
Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy visit the forum’s
website: http://web.utk.edu/~jlarivi1/bcinter.html.
Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion and
presentation.
Paul Armsworth, College of Arts and Sciences
Jacob LaRiviere, College of Business Administration
Becky Jacobs, College of Law
Chris Clark, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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