The SNIS Award 2016 has been attributed to Dr Morgan Scoville-Simonds, currently CIES Visiting Fellow, for his award-winning thesis, entitled:
Adaptation-as-development: “Socializing” and “depoliticizing” climate change adaptation, from the international to the local level
The thesis, defended at the Graduate Institute, under the supervision of Professor Hufty, addresses the topic of climate change as an international policy imperative. Through a political ecology approach it proposes an analysis of policy and social discourses on why and how this adaptation is conceived as a problem.
The jury, composed of experts in different disciplines, commented on Dr Scoville-Simonds work as “excellent, well-structured; the thesis tackles complex concepts with lightness and deep understanding, generating valuable insights for the social sciences, as well as enriching their methodologies”.
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