題目：The sociogenesis of climate change: Eating more meat and the China-Brazil connection
主講人：Mark Harvey 教授
時間：2016年5月17日 9:30-11:30
地點：主樓6層會議室
主講人介紹：
Mark Harvey is currently Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI) at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex. He is also Honorary Professor at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester. Professor Mark Harvey’s work develops a neo-Polanyian approach to configurations of production, distribution, exchange and consumption, with an historical and comparative perspective. Looking at processes of long duration transformation and societal variation, he has explored a range of diverse objects: tomatoes, genomes, biofuels, drinking water and most recently the soya bean. In these works, he explores themes of the shifting place both of economy in society and of society in nature. As an ESRC Professorial Research Fellow, he is currently researching the dynamics of the food-energy-climate change trilemma, in the context of the finitudes of environmental resources – particularly of land, water and fossil energy. Different societies generate and face different climate change and resource challenges, analysed as sociogenic rather than anthropogenic sustainability crises. The research compares Brazil, China, India and Europe.
內容介紹：
This seminar presents the core ideas of Mark Harvey’s current ESRC Professorial Fellowship research on the food-energy-climate change trilemma. The concept of the sociogenesis of climate change will be elaborated in terms of how different political economies interact with their own environmental resource constraints of land, water and energy. The emerging geopolitical dynamic between Brazil and China serves to illustrate the necessity for social science to analyse such interactions as a major source of historical and societal variation. Land-use in Brazil and China, food security and the rising consumption of meat are reflected in these nation’s contrasting but interlinked sustainability crises. Their distinctive political regimes, with different developmental trajectories, are significantly conditioned by sharply contrasting environmental resources of land, water, solar and fossil energy. Developing his neo-Polanyian approach, the argument will be made for a social science understanding of ‘the shifting place of the economy in nature’ in the political shaping of economies manifest in the sociogenesis of, and responses to, climate change.
（承辦：技術經濟及管理系，科研與學術交流中心）
