The INQUIMUS 2025 team invites you to participate in the upcoming workshop on "Centering Justice in Climate Risk Management for Transformative Change" at IIASA.
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Ever intensifying climate-related risks are unevenly distributed within and across countries, potentially reinforcing existing injustices and leading to the emergence of adaptation limits globally. The 2025 INQUIMUS workshop, organized by the Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group, thus aims to increase the understanding of inequities as root causes of vulnerabilities and risks, integrate justice considerations more explicitly in climate risk management (CRM), and exchange inter- and transdisciplinary methods and tools for its assessment to foster transformative change.
This in-person workshop will feature a variety of engaging formats, including keynote presentations, poster presentations, break-out discussions, and open-space conversations. We seek to support researchers, analysts, policy-advisors, and practitioners with concepts, methods and tools to increase the social- and political feasibility of transformative change in CRM.
The 2025 INQUIMUS workshop is centered around the following themes:
1. Lost in translation.
- How are the concepts 'justice' and 'root causes' understood in the CRM, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and adaptation communities?
- How are justice and transformative change conceptually linked? Which existing concepts and frameworks can we build upon?
2. Diverse perspectives, please.
- What alternative theories, frameworks, and practices—from across disciplines and societal contexts—can advance existing approaches to CRM and adaptation?
- How can insights from critical social sciences, political ecology, Indigenous and local knowledge, feminist economics, and other transformative perspectives strengthen justice considerations in CRM?
- How can diverse ways of knowing and valuing risk shape more equitable and effective adaptation strategies?
3. Methods and tools.
- What qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, including participatory approaches leveraging local knowledge, can help identify, assess, and address different aspects of justice more explicitly?
- How can we best assess or measure social vulnerability and its root causes?
- How can justice be more effectively integrated into the development of (transformative) CRM and adaptation strategies/pathways?
4. Show me the evidence.
- What empirical evidence supports the role of justice as a decisive factor in successful CRM?
- What experiences highlight (transformative) CRM approaches that address justice concerns as well as related barriers and enablers?
- How has justice been integrated into (transformative) CRM research and planning?
5. Call for Action - Informing policy and practice:
- How can we further engage with stakeholders from policy and practice to mainstream justice in CRM for transformative change?
- What strategies can enhance the integration of justice into policy and decision-making processes
Program and call for contributions
Stay updated as the program of the workshop will be announced soon, and the call for abstract submissions will open in April 2025.
For any inquiries, please contact [email protected].
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