Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Richard Powell (University of Liverpool) have been awarded an ESRC Seminar series award (January 2010-July 2011) for the following topic - ‘Knowledges, resources and legal regimes: the new geopolitics of the Polar Regions’.

Further information is available: http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/Dodds/ESRC-Seminar%20Series-2010-11.pdf

Seminar 1, Shifting Poles? Geopolitics and legal regimes

Foresight Centre, Liverpool, Thursday 25 March 2010

This seminar will launch the network by considering the new geopolitical considerations that are affecting the Polar regions. Why has there been a growth of political attention towards these regions? What environmental changes are evident? What legal regimes are in place? What might be the geopolitical and strategic repercussions in the future?