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ISBN-10 :  3319179452 

ISBN-13 :  9783319179452

Author:  Dina Abbott, Gordon Wilson 

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.

The Lived Experience of Climate Change Knowledge Science and Public Action 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction: A Wealth of Lived Experience
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Lived Experiences of Weather, Floods and Climate
1.3 The Rich Diversity of Lived Experience
1.3.1 Contrasting Lived Experiences of Rich and Poor
1.3.2 The Lived Experience of Public Attempts at Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in an Affl
1.3.3 Connecting Climate Change and Climate Change Mitigation to Lived Experience of Vulnerability o
1.3.4 The Lived Experience of Environmental Activists
1.4 From Flood Victims in the United Kingdom to Small Farmers and Drought-Resistant Food Grains in Z
1.5 The Building Blocks of This Book
References
2 Exploring the Lived Experience of Climate Change
Abstract
2.1 Introduction: Lived Experiences as Rich, Complex Narratives
2.2 Lived Experience as a Social Process of Making
2.3 The Complex Interaction of Structure (Power Relations) and Agency that Makes Lived Experience
2.4 Lived Experience in Relation to Interacting Phenomena
2.5 Lived Experience in Relation to Culture and Value
2.6 The Lived Experience of Climate Change: Personal and Collective
2.7 Lived Experience and Scale
References
3 Lived Experience and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Science and Lived Experience: Whose Reality?
3.3 Diverse Scientific Perspectives and the Political Exploitation of Diversity
3.4 Working with Scientists
3.4.1 Working with Physical Scientists: A Social Science Story
References
4 Representing Climate Change: Science, Social Science, Interdisciplinary Approaches and Lived Exper
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Climate Change as a ‘Wicked Problem’
4.3 Fundamentals of Natural Science Inquiry and the ‘Scientific Method’
4.4 Underlying Assumptions of the ‘Scientific Method’ and Positivist Objectivity
4.5 Fundamentals of Social Science Inquiry and Power Relations
4.5.1 A Shift from Numbers to Qualitative Data
4.5.2 Underlying Ontological Assumptions and Celebration of Subjectivity
4.6 Interdisciplinarity, Representation and Climate Change
4.6.1 The Politics of Representation
References
5 Lived Experience and the Advocates of Local Knowledge
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Local Knowledge and What Works
5.2.1 Sharing or Extracting Knowledge Through Participatory Processes: The Contribution of Developme
5.2.2 Local Knowledge, Power and Participatory Processes in Environmental Studies
5.2.3 Local Knowledge and the Climate Change Literature
5.3 LocalIndigenous Knowledge and Identity
5.4 Local Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge and Lived Experience
References
6 Lived Experience and Discourses of Mitigation, Adaptation
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Mitigation and Adaptation and the IPCC
6.3 Adaptation and Mitigation in the 4th Assessment Report (2007)
6.3.1 Adaptation as Covered by the 2007 Report of WGII
6.3.2 Mitigation as Covered by the 2007 Report of WGIII
6.4 Adaptation and Mitigation in the 5th Assessment Report (2014)
6.4.1 The 2014 WGII Report ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’
6.4.2 The 2014 WGIII Report ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’
6.5 The Lived Experience of Mitigation and Adaptation
References
7 Lived Experience and Engagement on Climate Change
Abstract
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Public Will to Know and Act as a Problem of Science Communication
7.3 The Public Will to Know and Act, and Disagreement Over Climate Change
7.4 The Public Will to Know and Act, Socially Organised Denial and Lived Experience
References
8 Lived Experience, Science and a Social Imagination
Abstract
8.1 Introduction
8.2 To What Extent Is It Desirable to Expand the Boundaries of Our Lived Experiences Beyond Prevaili
8.2.1 Communicative Action and Hermeneutic and Emancipatory Learning
8.2.2 The Social Imagination
8.3 To What Extent Is It Desirable to Expand Scientific Knowledges About Climate Change Beyond Their
8.4 How Might Expansion of Climate Change Knowledge Be Enabled and Who Might Enable It?
References
9 Rationalist and Public Action Theories of Knowledge in Climate Change Debates
Abstract
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Towards a Targeted Climate Change Policy
9.3 Positive and Normative Assertions of Policy Making
9.4 The Role of the Media
9.5 The Rationalist Model of Policy Making
9.6 The Social Process of a Non-linear Public Action Approach and Lived Experience
9.7 Power Politics and Contested Knowledge
9.8 Lived Experience and Public Action Through Demonstration
References
10 Institutionalising Lived Experience in the Public Policy Process
Abstract
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Why Should We Wish to Institutionalise Lived Experience in Public Policy Debates About Climate
10.2.1 Government and Its Local Institutions
10.2.2 The Private Sector
10.2.3 Scientists Across the Social and Natural Divides
10.2.4 Engineers
10.2.5 Civil Society
10.2.6 Us, the Authors of This Book
10.3 The Issues (and Problems) Associated with Institutionalising Lived Experience in Public Policy
10.3.1 ‘Getting Real’
10.3.2 Creating the Conditions for Productive Engagement with Lived Experiences, and Between Lived E
10.3.3 The Issue of Power
10.4 Ways of Institutionalising
10.4.1 Institutionalisation Through Monitoring Independent Social Media
10.4.2 Direct Governmental Institutionalisation Through Focus Groups
10.4.3 Independent Institutionalisation Through Environmental Action Groups
10.4.4 Bringing It Together: Institutionalising as Space Making
References
11 A Public Action Approach to Knowledge and Intervention to Meet the Climate Challenge
Abstract
11.1 Introduction
11.2 A Public Action Approach to Knowledge
11.3 Public Action, Knowledge and Engagement on Climate Change: The Broader Picture

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