How climate change research undermines trust in everyday life: a review

Lucas, Chloe; Leith, Peat; Davison, AG

doi:10.1002/wcc.320

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“…For this reason also, the narrative framing of climate change as a global problem that threatens not only ways of life but life itself [31], the very systems and structures that "make everyday life possible" [32, p. 79], can cause cognitive and emotional disorientation [33]. Such insecurity [19,32,34] can induce 'ontological monism', the perspective that posits the existence of "one world amenable ( . .…”

Section: Ontological Narratives and Their Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrative matters for sustainability: the transformative role of storytelling in realizing 1.5°C futures

Veland

Scoville-Simonds

Gram-Hanssen

et al. 2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

154

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Narratives structure human comprehension, and shape our ability to imagine and achieve transformed futures within the 1.5 degree threshold. Examining tensions between narrative as a communication technique and as a spatial-temporal cognitive structure, this paper brings these different understandings together in a conversation for transformative global change. We suggest that filling the 'information deficit' with improved communication of a single, unifying and global narrative about Earth systems is necessary but insufficient: filling the 'narrative deficit' requires engagement with the protagonists, timelines, and places that provide situated agency in identifying and navigating uncertainty and risk. Transformations to sustainability will require recognizing and engaging multiple, diverse experiences of agency, a process that attention to narrative can help facilitate.

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Section: Ontological Narratives and Their Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrative matters for sustainability: the transformative role of storytelling in realizing 1.5°C futures

Veland

Scoville-Simonds

Gram-Hanssen

et al. 2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

154

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“…However, gaining trust and credibility is an ongoing and relational process [44,45]. Trust and credibility are gained and can be lost, a fact that became a reality for the IPCC when Climategate broke in 2009 [17,20,23,46,47].…”

Section: The Ipcc and Climategatementioning

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Learning from the Experiences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Balancing Science and Policy to Enable Trustworthy Knowledge

Gustafsson

2019

Sustainability

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To create a societal change towards a sustainable future, constructive relations between science and policy are of major importance. Boundary organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have come to play an important role in establishing such constructive relations. This study contributes to the development of empirically informed knowledge on the challenge of balancing different expectations for how the science–policy relation is to be constructed to create trustworthy knowledge and policy decisions, i.e., when to be what and to whom. This study revisits Climategate and uses the public debate on the IPCC’s credibility, legitimacy, and policy relevance that followed Climategate as an analytical window to explore how the IPCC balanced the science–policy relation in a trustworthy manner. The analysis is based on a document study. The study shows how different expectations on the science–policy relation coexist, and how these risks create a loss of trust, credibility, legitimacy, and policy relevance. Thus, for boundary organizations to have a chance to impact policy discussions, reflexivity about the present epistemic ideals and expectations on knowledge production is of major importance, and must be reflected in an organizational flexibility that is open to different strategies on how to connect science and policy in relation to different actors and phases of the knowledge production process.

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“…In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the exploration of the everyday in the social sciences (Ehn et al., ). However, in spite of this rise, there has to date been little consideration of the everyday in relation to environmental change (Lucas et al., ). Specifically, there is very limited knowledge of the interconnections between day‐to‐day changes in the physical environment and people's regular, routine, and quotidian activities.…”

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Everyday life and environmental change

Kothari

Arnall

2019

Geographical Journal

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This paper explores how daily changes in the physical environment intersect and connect with people's everyday lives, routines and practices in the Maldives. Dayto-day life is often regarded as mundane and ordinary, and therefore not particularly worthy of study. As this paper argues, however, the everyday is central to understanding how environmental change occurs and how people respond to it.Much recent work has challenged the ontological separation of the human and non-human, yet approaches to examining environment-everyday connections have, to date, been largely unidirectional, focusing on either how the environment impacts on human practices or is impacted by them. Using the notion of the everyday, this paper explores how "impacting on" and "impacted by" are entangled, ongoing cyclical processes that unfold daily. It draws on a series of innovative methodologies conducted with island-base communities to examine three key changes in the physical environment that are taking place in the context of the recent and rapid development of tourism on inhabited islands: sand excavation and erosion, the appearance and removal of rubbish and debris, and the expansion of the built environment. The paper reveals the significance of these day-to-day changes and the ways in which they are accommodated by, and incorporated into, the spatial and temporal dimensions of people's daily practices. It concludes by suggesting that an appreciation of the everyday can contribute to new understandings of human/non-human entanglements. K E Y W O R D S building construction, everyday life, Maldives, sand erosion, visual ethnographies, waste management ---

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How climate change research undermines trust in everyday life: a review

Cited by 34 publications

References 102 publications

Narrative matters for sustainability: the transformative role of storytelling in realizing 1.5°C futures

Narrative matters for sustainability: the transformative role of storytelling in realizing 1.5°C futures

Learning from the Experiences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Balancing Science and Policy to Enable Trustworthy Knowledge

Everyday life and environmental change

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