A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Karen O’Brien is a scientist and professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is also co-founder of cCHANGE, an initiative that supports transformation in a changing climate. With 30 years of experience in climate change research, Karen’s work uses an integral approach to explore and promote deliberate transformations to sustainability. Her current research emphasizes the role of creativity, collaboration, empowerment, and narratives in adaptation and transformation processes, including the role of paradigms in generating conscious social change.
Karen has published and edited numerous books, including “Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security,” and “The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change.” “Globalization and Environmental Change: Double Exposures,” co-authored with Robin Leichenko, received the 2008 AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. She received the AAG Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group Research Excellence Award in 2019. Her most recent book, with Robin Leichenko, is “Climate and Society: Transforming the Future.”
For more information on Karen O’Brien and Terry Patten, check out the following resources:
- cChange website: https://cchange.no/
- Karen’s book Climate and Society: Transforming the Future: http://politybooks.com/climate-and-society-transforming-the-future/
- Karen O’Brien University of Oslo: https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/people/aca/karenob/
- Terry Patten’s website: https://www.terrypatten.com/
To learn more about the work we are doing, visit:
- A New Republic of the Heart website: http://newrepublicoftheheart.org/
- State of Emergence podcast website: http://stateofemergence.org/
