[ecrea] Communication and Citizen Participation in the Politics of Energy and Climate Change-Lisbon, 12 November 2014

This conference will take place in Lisbon on the 12th of November, prior 
to the start of the ECREA conference.
Registration is free. To register send an email with name and 
affiliation to (monicafraga /at/ iseg.utl.pt)


Communication and citizen participation in the politics of energy and 
climate change



End of award conference of the project

COMPOLIS – Communication and Political Engagement with Environmental Issues

http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/compolis/



Venue

SOCIUS – ISEG (University of Lisbon)

Map: http://tinyurl.com/pwlkbwt


PROGRAMME



9:30 – Registration



9:45 – Welcome and project presentation

Anabela Carvalho and Sofia Bento



Mediations of energy and climate change: Paving the way for public 
engagement?



10:00 – De/politicization and climate change

Pieter Maeseele, University of Antwerp, Belgium



10:30 – The missing public in news discourses on environmental risks

Annika Egan Sjölander, Umeå University, Sweden

Anna Maria Jönsson, Södertörn University, Sweden



11:00 – Media coverage of policy plans undergoing public consultation: 
Promoting or hindering public participation?

Eunice Seixas, University of Minho, Portugal

Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal

Zara Pinto-Coelho, University of Minho, Portugal

COMPOLIS project



11:30 – Coffee break



Official discourses and public participation: Moving towards inclusive 
governance or delimiting power and authority?



12:00 – Environmental impact assessment and public participation: 
Playing with a full deck or trumping local discourses?

David Sumares, University of Aveiro, Portugal



12:30 – Listening to citizens or enacting power? The discursive work of 
public consultation documents on energy policies

Zara Pinto-Coelho, University of Minho, Portugal

Eunice Seixas, University of Minho, Portugal

Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal

COMPOLIS project



13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch



Citizen views on the politics of public participation: Disenchantment, 
hope or something else?



14:00 – The Spanish public and climate change: Between individual 
responses and political participation

Miguel Vicente, University of Valladolid, Spain

Mónica Arto, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

RESCLIMA project



14:30 – Voices and ears: Participation processes in coastal areas

Luísa Schmidt, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Ana Delicado, University of Lisbon, Portugal

CHANGE project



15:00 – Citizens’ experiences of participation opportunities in an 
energy project

Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal

Eunice Seixas, University of Minho, Portugal

Maria Fernandes-Jesus, University of Minho, Portugal

COMPOLIS project



15:30 – Coffee break



Social movements addressing energy and climate change challenges: Any 
signs of a political renewal?



16:00 – The Transition movement: Reinventing citizens’ roles in the 
politics of energy and climate change?

Maria Fernandes-Jesus, University of Minho, Portugal

Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal

Lúcia Fernandes, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Sofia Bento, University of Lisbon, Portugal

COMPOLIS project



16:30 – Transitions in Convergence: A grassroots innovation case study 
of adaptation to desertification and draught

Inês Campos, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Mónica Truninger, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Gil-Penha Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal

André Vizinho, University of Lisbon, Portugal

BASE project



Closing session



17:30 - Concluding remarks and final discussion

Anabela Carvalho, Sofia Bento and Lúcia Fernandes

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