Integration of anthropology and climatology in Vancouver to identify new solutions for sustainable mobility
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report explains that our lifestyles have a considerable influence on energy use, and adds that emissions of greenhouse gases can be substantially lowered through changes in human habits and practices.
The bilateral project 'Sustainable Mobility in Time of Climate Change: Lessons from the Past, Solutions for the Future', which upgraded the 'DriveGreen' approaches, focuses on such changes in transport, which is an important contributor to anthropologenic emissions of greenhouse gases. In EU transport is responsible for around 25% of EU GHG emissions, making it the second biggest GHG emitting sector after energy production. Road transport alone contributes about 20% of the EU's total CO2 emissions.
Findings of the bilateral project were presented at the 76th annual conference of Society for Applied Anthropology, organised from March 29 to April 2, 2016, in Canadian city Vancouver. Presentations were carried out by Lenora Bohren, Director of the National Center for Vehicle Emissions Control and Safety at the Colorado State University, IPCC member Lučka Kajfež Bogataj from University of Ljubljana, Tatiana Bajuk Senčar from Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), and Dan Podjed, DriveGreen's Principal Investigator from ZRC SAZU. Panelists discussed also about the '1, 2, 3 Ljubljana' smartphone app, developed in the 'DriveGreen' project.
The bilateral project and the panel in Vancouver provide a fertile ground for further cooperation of climatologists and anthropologists to study and promote sustainable mobility. The cooperation started alreafy in 2015 at the international symposium 'Why the World Needs Anthropologists.' In the bilateral project and in organisation of the panel participated also Carla Guerrón-Montero, Lawrence Agbemabiese and Lu Ann De Cunzo (all from University of Delaware).
(Photo: Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, Dan Podjed.)
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