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Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction, and Opportunity, Mike Hulme : book review
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The world in general and South Africa have had a long succession of big fearful ideas about environmental change, each laden with the same kind of altercation - desiccation, desertification, nuclear winter, acid rain - and each with, at best, policy responses that have been only partially successful.Abstract:
As anyone who engages in an attempt to reason with others about climate change and its implications knows, this is a domain that is rife with righteous certainty, conflict, ignorance and fear. One is quickly cast into one camp or another. Questions cause one to be instantly labelled climate change denialist - or alarmist - while exploration of fact and alternatives reach sudden dead-ends, and one's courage ebbs. And that is what happens in small forums, never mind the wider political sphere. The world in general and South Africa in particular have had a long succession of big fearful ideas about environmental change, each laden with the same kind of altercation - desiccation, desertification (and the invasion of the Karoo), nuclear winter, acid rain - and each with, at best, policy responses that have been only partially successful.read more
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What shapes perceptions of climate change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that affect-based decisions about climate change are unlikely to motivate significant action, as politicians and the general public are not particularly worried about climate risks, and because attempts to scare people into greater action may have unintended negative consequences.
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Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty
TL;DR: A survey of geoengineering techniques and possibilities can be found in this article, where the issues of moral hazard, side effects, and the possibility of unilateral climate manipulation and the problems of multilateral climate management are explored.
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Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
Bruno Latour,Catherine Porter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the instability of the nature/culture relation and the recourse to the natural world in the context of climate change, focusing on the difficulty of distinguishing between humans and nonhumans.
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A values-based approach to vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.
Karen O'Brien,Johanna Wolf +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that another, broader interpretation of values, one concentrating on intrinsically desirable principles or qualities is needed to understand and respond to climate change, and they examine what a values-based approach is, why it is needed, and what its benefits for understanding adaptation are.
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Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values
TL;DR: This article reviewed the growing body of work that explores the role of human values and the closely related concept of cultural worldviews in public engagement with climate change and provided a brief conceptual overview of values and their relationship to environmental engagement in general.
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Introduction: `Mode 2' Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge
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The Elements of Moral Philosophy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the problem of defining what is moral, and propose a set of criteria for determining whether a moral practice is a good or bad one. But they do not consider the question of whether a cultural practice should be judged to be moral.
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A New Climate for Society
TL;DR: The authors argue that climate change produces discordances in established ways of understanding the human place in nature, and so offers unique challenges and opportunities for the interpretive and interpretive interpretation of the human presence in nature.
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Linking Knowledge and Action for Sustainable Development
Lorrae van Kerkhoff,Louis Lebel +1 more
TL;DR: The role of research-based knowledge in this complex setting is ambiguous and diverse, and it is undergoing rapid change both in theory and in practice as discussed by the authors, and the early response to concerns that these links could and should be improved, through efforts at translation and transfer.
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Researchers' roles in knowledge co-production: experience from sustainability research in Kenya, Switzerland, Bolivia and Nepal
Christian Pohl,Stephan Rist,Anne Zimmermann,Patricia Fry,Ghana S. Gurung,Flurina Schneider,Chinwe Ifejika Speranza,Boniface Kiteme,Sébastien Boillat,Elvira Serrano,Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn,Urs Wiesmann +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic comparison of four sustainability research projects in Kenya (vulnerability to drought), Switzerland (soil protection), Bolivia and Nepal (conservation vs. development) shows how researchers intuitively adopted three different roles to face these challenges: the roles of reflective scientist, intermediary, and facilitator of a joint learning process.