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Diana Liverman
@DianaLiv
I research and write on environment, climate, and development in Tucson, Arizona. Retired University of Arizona but still working too hard!
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Tomorrow :
Our co-chairs & Joyeeta Gupta will preview groundbreaking new #SafeAndJust #EarthSystemBoundaries for the #GlobalCommons of #climate, #biosphere, #freshwater, #fertilizers & #aerosolpollutants
Find out more & watch live👇
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Opening plenary in Tucson. on critical methods. Best bilingual talk ever!
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Welcoming the Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG) to Tucson this week. Raining at the moment but warmer and drier by Wed and high of 71F on Thursday! Twice rescheduled, third time lucky? geography.arizona.edu/CLAG2023
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Haha. Sorry about that:) I managed to tip my water over the text of my talk and the flood led to delivery delays. There is hope I promise!
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Got a chuckle out of this line when @DianaLiv’s lovely talk ran long: “I promised hope in my abstract, but I haven’t got enough time to give you more hope.”
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Someone is being a very good boy while our car battery and brakes are checked at the very dog friendly bmw dealer in Ann Arbor. I think at least 10 employees have come over to greet him. Next stop AGU in Chicago
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I have signed the letter as member of earth commission
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#Cop15 update:
CEO @IanPlantlife signed a joint statement from #biodiversity experts & conservationists around the world calling on decision-makers to act now to begin reversing #BiodiversityLoss by 2030! bit.ly/3hfXOGq @MBarrettwwfuk @EJMilnerGulland @dobura #ForNature
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What a lovely evening at COP15 in Montreal with some of my favorite scholars. Vegan food, wine and sisterhood!
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Yes, there was plotting. And a bit of scheming. And many laughs. Nothing like an evening out with brilliant women @EstherTurnhout @cCHANGE_OBrien @DianaLiv #COP15
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Join us Dec 9 at #COP15:
Earth Commissioners & will discuss why a #NaturePositive & #PeoplePositive approach is needed to tackle #biodiversity decline
📆 16:30 EST, Large Room, Nature Pavilion
👉 Find out more & watch online: bit.ly/3BfAO0U
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Tomorrow (with online option). nationalacademies.org/event/12-08-20
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Please join us for the 14th annual My Arizona Lecture "WHAT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY (AND THE WORLD) CAN LEARN FROM THE SOUTHERN ARIZONA BORDERLANDS" by SGDE alum, Dr. Geoff Boyce, this Friday, 12/9 at 3.30 PM in ENR2 S107.
Register for Zoom: bit.ly/MyAZ_Boyce
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With #COP15 gearing up, here's my two cents worth of where things are at and where we might be heading:
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Tomorrow is your last chance to apply for our #CreativeClimateLeadership Canada Programme. If you're an artist, curator, creative, cultural professional or policy-maker that works and lives in Canada you can apply. Find out more >> bit.ly/3UBbN7I
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Just out in One Earth led by David Obura (I'm a co-author) calling for justice in a nature positive and people positive future as we head into COP15.
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Bangladesh often used as example of dramatic reduction in climate vulnerability but I want to be careful as I prep a talk on vulnerability for AGU. What do expert critical scholars think?
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Todays encounters
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Oldies but goldies as they say
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Women authors were also on the reading list including Jill Williams (1978) Carbon Dioxide, Climate and Society: sciencedirect.com/book/978008023 and my MA advisor Anne Kirkby's brilliant 1973 PhD 'The Use of Land and Water Resources in the Past and Present Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico'.
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O'Keefe, Westgate and Wisner (1976) on unnatural disasters: nature.com/articles/26056
"disasters are more a consequence of socio-economic than natural factors". Also Ken Hewitt on 'Interpretations of Calamity' (1983).
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'Nature Pleads not Guilty' (1981) by Rolando Garcia (an intervention from the south) & 'Silent Violence' (1983) by Michael Watts inspired my understanding how colonialism & inequality create drought & climate vulnerability.
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Rereading early influences on my career. These include the 1981 publication by Peter Timmerman on Vulnerability, Resilience and Climate Change (which he was working on when we were members of Ian Burton & Anne Whyte's group at U. Toronto) ilankelman.org/miscellany/Tim
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📣 ANNOUNCEMENT
Deadline extended! #CLAG2023 Abstract Submission deadline now November 28, 2022
Please share this information with colleagues who may not yet be CLAG members but wish to attend and present at the meeting.
Abstract Submission Form
forms.gle/3MWuKYCnfX6GpU
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Postdoc Opportunity for Indigenous & Black Scholars beginning Fall 2023 - Deadline December 1, 2022
BUT letter from approved supervisor to access application due asap
Happy to support applications for anyone wanting to join our lab & work on Ocean, Climate, Water Justice 🌊
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PhD opportunity in Geography at University of Arizona.
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In case you missed it, I am recruiting a fully funded PhD to work with me @SGDE_UArizona to examine topics of land and disaster inequality using satellites + social surveys.
Drop me a line if interested. Details kindly hosted by @GlobalLandP 
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Department head wanted! University of Arizona geography. Great faculty and students..and lovely warm winters :)
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We're hiring a director at @SGDE_UArizona in @UArizonaSBS @uarizona. If you are a geographer interested in leadership at a top university, please reach out! @SGDE_UArizona in @UArizonaSBS arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers
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Kirsten worked so hard for this and almost made it... Thank you for your grace, leadership and vision and deep gratitude to all your supporters especially your family. Sending a big hug and wishing you some well-earned rest.
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The people of this district have spoken and we must honor their decision. Just now I called Juan Ciscomani and gave him my sincere congratulations for being the people’s choice to represent AZ-06.
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Great intervention Alison
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What would #COP27 look like with women and culture taking the lead?
The patriarchy is overwhelming. It's all around us. It will take 135 years to close the gender gap. It’s just not good enough - our JB Founder @JB_Alison.
#CultureAtCOP27
#COPResilienceHub
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#PubAlert: experts, including geographers & , find global distributive justice & #SocietalTransformations key to ensuring #access to basic needs while staying within #EarthSystemBoundaries.
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Our paper is out! “Impacts of Meeting Minimum Access on Critical Earth Systems amidst the Great Inequality” (bit.ly/3Gdxzdw) The environmental impact of a decent life for all amounts to the current impact of the richest few percent. Thread 🧵
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We show we cannot provide a decent living standard for the poor without jeopardizing climate change goals and increasing other planetary risks but that reducing overconsumption by the rich can create space for the poor to thrive as well as reduce pressures on the earth system
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Glad to have contributed to this article led by Crelis Rammelt out today in Nature Sustainability "Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality" :
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And also emissions gap report...
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There are some good/scary graphics for those of you teaching...e.g. from emissions gap report on food system
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Overwhelmed by wave of climate reports this week...today reading (skimming) the UNEP emissions gap report and UK Climate Committee offset report. On the radar are Lancet countdown and Thunberg book and Canadian costs of climate change report. What's missing (other than sleep)?
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Many excellent review papers in this open access volume of ARER
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Such a joy to gather in person at #ESG2022 with my Earth Commission colleagues from all over the world: and Joyeeta Gupta.
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please if you are chairing a conference session please make your introductions and questions brief so we have time to listen to the speakers.
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I decided to come in person as I am currently sort of near in Ottawa (low carbon travel) and I will get to meet with a couple of collaborators...
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