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This book explores the idea that daily lived experiences of climate
change are a crucial missing link in our knowledge that contrasts
with scientific understandings of this global problem. It argues
that both kinds of knowledge are limiting: the sciences by their
disciplines and lived experiences by the boundaries of everyday
lives. Therefore each group needs to engage the other in
order to enrich and expand understanding of climate change and what
to do about it. Complemented by a rich collection of examples and
case studies, this book proposes a novel way of generating and
analysing knowledge about climate change and how it may be used.
The reader is introduced to new insights where the book:
• Provides a framework that explains the variety of
simultaneous, co-existing and often contradictory perspectives on
climate change. • Reclaims everyday experiential knowledge
as crucial for meeting global challenges such as climate change.
• Overcomes the science-citizen dichotomy and leads to new
ways of examining public engagement with science. Scientists are
also human beings with lived experiences that filter their
scientific findings into knowledge and actions. • Develops
a ‘public action theory of knowledge’ as a tool for exploring
how decisions on climate policy and intervention are reached and
enacted. While scientists (physical and social) seek to explain
climate change and its impacts, millions of people throughout the
world experience it personally in their daily lives. The experience
might be bad, as during extreme weather, engender hostility when
governments attempt mitigation, and sometimes it is benign. This
book seeks to understand the complex, often contradictory knowledge
dynamics that inform the climate change debate, and is written
clearly for a broad audience including lecturers, students,
practitioners and activists, indeed anyone who wishes to gain
further insight into this far-reaching issue.
This book explores the idea that daily lived experiences of climate
change are a crucial missing link in our knowledge that contrasts
with scientific understandings of this global problem. It argues
that both kinds of knowledge are limiting: the sciences by their
disciplines and lived experiences by the boundaries of everyday
lives. Therefore each group needs to engage the other in order to
enrich and expand understanding of climate change and what to do
about it. Complemented by a rich collection of examples and case
studies, this book proposes a novel way of generating and analysing
knowledge about climate change and how it may be used. The reader
is introduced to new insights where the book: * Provides a
framework that explains the variety of simultaneous, co-existing
and often contradictory perspectives on climate change. * Reclaims
everyday experiential knowledge as crucial for meeting global
challenges such as climate change. * Overcomes the science-citizen
dichotomy and leads to new ways of examining public engagement with
science. Scientists are also human beings with lived experiences
that filter their scientific findings into knowledge and actions. *
Develops a 'public action theory of knowledge' as a tool for
exploring how decisions on climate policy and intervention are
reached and enacted. While scientists (physical and social) seek to
explain climate change and its impacts, millions of people
throughout the world experience it personally in their daily lives.
The experience might be bad, as during extreme weather, engender
hostility when governments attempt mitigation, and sometimes it is
benign. This book seeks to understand the complex, often
contradictory knowledge dynamics that inform the climate change
debate, and is written clearly for a broad audience including
lecturers, students, practitioners and activists, indeed anyone who
wishes to gain further insight into this far-reaching issue.
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