Workshop 2: What Price Security? New Issues in the Ethics of Risk

The second workshop explored climate change as a challenge to human future ‘planning’.  Tipping points introduce a new element of uncertainty into future climate prediction.  Given such uncertainty, our task is to evaluate the political and ethical bases of planning and ‘risk management’ operative around the globe today.

Themes covered were: national security and military intervention global inequalities and conflict; nuclear energy; peak oil; risk society; immigration and climate refugees; development and population.

Written Papers

The ‘Starter Papers’ below were presented by participants at the workshop, covering a broad range of topics:

Living with Uncertainty: Limits of Risk Thinking by Dr. Chris Groves (University of Cardiff)

The Security Consequences of a Nuclear Renaissance by Frank Barnaby (Nuclear Issues Consultant, Oxford Research Group)

Tipping Points, Inertia, Ethics and Policy by Dr. Mark Charlesworth (Keele University)

Risk, Knowledge and Communication in Ecological Art (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Empathy and Climate Change by Roman Krznaric (School of Life, London)

Planning for Risk? Professional Responsibility, Ethical Obligations and the Public Interest by Dr. Jon Coaffee and Dr. Paul O’Hare (The University of Manchester)

Videos

Scroll down to see some interviews with workshop participants on the subject of security, risk and climate change:

Chris Groves (Cardiff University)

Roman Krznaric (School of Life, London)

Frank Barnaby (Nuclear Issues Consultant)

Mark Charlesworth (Keele University)

Sarah Males (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Workshop participants (mixture)