Port City Environments, Anthropocene Ecologies, and Climate Futures.

In this impending hour of climate disruption and mass species extinction, the Global North has largely failed to make conclusive efforts to combat the ongoing effects of climate change which has already had unprecedented and far-reaching consequences across the countries and regions of continental and maritime Asia. As a part of the Global South, Asia contains the largest agglomeration of low-lying islands, coastlines, archipelagos, and minor seas in our planet, where sea level rise brings catastrophic implications for a multitude of populations, environments, and habitats. This working group focuses on the conjunction of escalating climate concerns across Global Asia and the divergent approaches to macro and micro understanding of environmental upheavals and disasters. From desert ecologies to forest topographies, from oceanic ecosystems to fossil fuel economies, from underwater networks to cloud and wind mobilities, we invite investigations into the interdependent environmental precarities and futures that lie ahead for Global Asia.