Getting the science right: Queensland's coal seam gas development and the engagement with knowledge, uncertainty and environmental risks

Espig, Martin

doi:10.14264/uql.2018.345

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“…Going beyond reducing their own personal footprint by getting active politically in any way can be the second step. But they need to overcome the demarcation of others as being the active persons, the role models, but not them personally (P. 9, 46; P. 2, 36) [87,88]. Exchanging thoughts and feelings with other participants on their engagement, and seeing their struggles, including on the level of mental health (P. 10), could encourage participants who are not involved that deeply to engage more and empower them to act [46].…”

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Dialogue and Disruption at the Doorstep: Participant Perceptions during a City Walk as a Climate Communication Format

Hartmann,

Geneuss,

Hoppe

2024

Sustainability

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Since there is a broad empirical consensus that linear science communication focusing on disaster framing rarely empowers audiences and prompts transformative action, alternative climate communication formats are needed. This paper explores an alternative climate communication format, which integrates the issue into a local context (Munich, Germany) via transdisciplinary cooperation, specifically through collaboration with local climate educators and tapping into the scientific expertise of local stakeholders. The conceptualized format of a City Walk on the subject of climate justice addresses urban citizens and tests the effectiveness of climate justice as an alternative framing. Drawing on an accompanying empirical study with qualitative group discussions (n = 14, October 2023), this article explores how the format and framing are perceived by the participants. Based on these findings, we discuss the potentials and pitfalls of the format for transdisciplinary science communication. In summary, the City Walk deepened participants’ understanding of local climate justice—that is to say, how heat and flooding could amplify existing inequalities, and why adaptation and mitigation measures have not yet been implemented more thoroughly. Here, the crucial point is not whether the shift from climate change being a general topic to a personal one is supported by technical aspects of communication (e.g., virtual simulations). However, perceived local climate justice barriers (like bureaucracy) led participants to prioritize individual action (‘footprint’) over collective action (e.g., addressing local change). With these results, this study underlines the importance of new transdisciplinary formats for climate communication to address local change.

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Dialogue and Disruption at the Doorstep: Participant Perceptions during a City Walk as a Climate Communication Format

Hartmann,

Geneuss,

Hoppe

2024

Sustainability

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“…Risks are, therefore, not the only type of quantifiable unknowns, nor are all risks quantifiable, especially if viewed through a cultural theory lens [ 50 ]. Likewise, ignorance may not only refer to ‘unknown unknowns’ if understood as a more dynamic sociocultural phenomenon [ 51 , pp. 30–39].…”

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“…This brief overview shows that data generation is not merely the collection of biophysical facts but already a performative process that can introduce uncertainties unrelated to the inherent variability or randomness of biophysical processes, for example, due to false assumptions [ 61 , p. 642]. Notions such as ‘raw data’ can thus be misleading if the context and process of data generation are neglected ([ 51 , pp. 174–181]; [ 79 , 80 ]).…”

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Uncertainty in and around biophysical modelling: insights from interdisciplinary research on agricultural digitalization

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Agricultural digitalization is providing growing amounts of real-time digital data. Biophysical simulation models can help interpret these data. However, these models are subject to complex uncertainties, which has prompted calls for interdisciplinary research to better understand and communicate modelling uncertainties and their impact on decision-making. This article develops two corresponding insights from an interdisciplinary project in a New Zealand agricultural research organization. First, we expand on a recent Royal Society Open Science journal article (van der Bles et al . 2019 Royal Society Open Science 6 , 181870 ( doi:10.1098/rsos.181870 )) and suggest a threefold conceptual framework to describe direct, indirect and contextual uncertainties associated with biophysical models. Second, we reflect on the process of developing this framework to highlight challenges to successful collaboration and the importance of a deeper engagement with interdisciplinarity. This includes resolving often unequal disciplinary standings and the need for early collaborative problem framing. We propose that both insights are complementary and informative to researchers and practitioners in the field of modelling uncertainty as well as to those interested in interdisciplinary environmental research generally. The article concludes by outlining limitations of interdisciplinary research and a shift towards transdisciplinarity that also includes non-scientists. Such a shift is crucial to holistically address uncertainties associated with biophysical modelling and to realize the full potential of agricultural digitalization.

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“…The use and communication of knowledge, including its credibility, has been identified as an important, albeit complex, feature of perceptions of, and resistance against, conventional gas development (e.g. Mercer, de Rijke & Dressler 2014;Espig, 2018). The focus on distancing oneself from 'biased', 'leftist', 'non-neutral' activism often occurs in conjunction with, and appears to feed into, another act of resistance: the production and dissemination of knowledge that is considered neutral and objective.…”

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“…The production of locally trusted knowledge about (possible) impacts of unconventional gas development is an important act of resistance (Rasch & Köhne 2017) because a lack of information can make people feel excluded and/or disempowered (Devey et al 2014;Bec et al 2016). Dissemination of such knowledge happens through websites, local information meetings (Lis and Stasik 2017), songs (Highby 2014), and film screenings (Espig 2018;Vasi et al 2015). Additionally, information shared by those opposed to unconventional gas developments is preferably based on what is often accepted as scientific knowledge, presented as facts.…”

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Is ‘activist’ a dirty word? Place identity, activism and unconventional gas development across three continents

Luke

Rasch

Evensen

et al. 2018

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Is 'activist' a dirty word? Place identity, activism and unconventional gas development across three continents Abstract: Communities respond to unconventional gas in a variety of ways. In some communities, industry has held a social license, while in other areas, industrial development has been slowed, halted, or prevented by social resistance. Repeatedly, across multiple nations and communities, we have observed that social identities that either incorporate or eschew activism intersect with perceptions of this development's effect on place identity to either foster or discourage opposition. Particularly interesting are cases in which fracking is perceived to threaten local place identity, but where activism conflicts with social identity. To mobilise different sectors of the population, it often appears important for local residents to be perceived as 'regular citizens' and not as activists. We explore how intersection of social identities and place identity shaped the different ways in which communities in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United States have responded to unconventional gas development. Communities resisting development often see 'activism' as something that 'outsiders' do and that must be rejected as insufficiently objective and neutral. This view of activism and activists produces specific forms of resistance that differ from typical 'activist' actions, in which 'knowledge', 'information', neutrality, and objectivity are particularly important.

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Getting the science right: Queensland's coal seam gas development and the engagement with knowledge, uncertainty and environmental risks

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Dialogue and Disruption at the Doorstep: Participant Perceptions during a City Walk as a Climate Communication Format

Dialogue and Disruption at the Doorstep: Participant Perceptions during a City Walk as a Climate Communication Format

Uncertainty in and around biophysical modelling: insights from interdisciplinary research on agricultural digitalization

Is ‘activist’ a dirty word? Place identity, activism and unconventional gas development across three continents

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