Representing Climate Change: Science, Social Science, Interdisciplinary Approaches and Lived Experience

2015 ◽  
pp. 77-103
Author(s):  
Dina Abbott ◽  
Gordon Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Climate Change Science

scholarly journals Teaching a Social Science Course on Climate Change: Suggestions for Active-Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Duram
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Social Science ◽  
State Government ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Local State ◽  
Action Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches

AbstractPrevious research indicates the importance of interdisciplinary approaches when teaching about climate change. Specifically, social science perspectives allow students to understand the policy, economic, cultural, and personal influences that impact environmental change. This article describes one such college course that employed active-learning techniques. Course topics included: community resilience, environmental education, historical knowledge timeline, climate justice, social vulnerability, youth action, science communication, hope versus despair, misinformation, and climate refugees. To unify these concepts, engaging activities were developed that specifically address relevant individual, local, state, national, and international climate resilience themes. Students assessed their personal climate footprint, explored social/cultural influences, wrote policy requests to relevant local/state government officials, studied national policy options, and learned about previous global initiatives. The course culminated in a mock global climate summit, which was modeled on a Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This final activity required each student to prepare a policy report and represent a nation in negotiating a multilateral climate agreement. It is accepted that climate change education must include physical data on the impacts of anthropogenic emissions. It is also essential that students appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of climate adaptations, become hopeful about addressing change, and gain skills necessary to engage as informed climate citizens.

People and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Community Inclusion ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Political Challenge

Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge with many social justice concerns around every corner. A global issue, climate change threatens the well-being, livelihood, and survival of people in communities worldwide. Often, those who have contributed least to climate change are the most likely to suffer from its negative consequences and are often excluded from the policy discussions and decisions that affect their lives. This book pays particular attention to the social dimensions of climate change. It examines closely people’s lived experience, climate-related injustice and inequity, why some groups are more vulnerable than others, and what can be done about it—especially through greater community inclusion in policy change. A highlight of the book is its diversity of rich, community-based examples from throughout the Global South and North. Sacrificial flood zones in urban Argentina, forced relocation of United Houma tribal members in the United States, and gendered water insecurities in Bangladesh and Australia are just some of the in-depth cases included in the book. Throughout, the book asks social and political questions about climate change. Of key importance, it asks what can be done about the unequal consequences of climate change by questioning and transforming social institutions and arrangements—guided by values that prioritize the experience of affected groups and the inclusion of diverse voices and communities in the policy process.

scholarly journals Adopting an adaptation-mitigation-resilience framework to ageing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Gietel-Basten
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Climate Change Science ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
Plan Action

Population ageing is presented as one of the ‘grand challenges’ of the twenty-first century. Yet, policies designed to offset these challenges seem to be a jumbled, disjointed mix with no clear, overarching narrative. One of the successes of climate change science is the development of a clear, distinguishable framework to plan action: adaptation, mitigation, and resilience. This framework can be applied to designing better policy for ageing: adapting to support people in need today; mitigating future challenges by ensuring that people and institutions ‘age better’; and building resilience by developing both a longer-term perspective and policy learning framework.

scholarly journals Administración Y Cambio Climático

Xihmai ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Campos Y Covarrubias ◽  
Nallely Emma Lule Martí­nez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Role Ethics

Resumen   La  administración  es  una  ciencia  social  encargada  de estudiar,  dirigir  y diseñar  las acciones organizacionales dentro  de empresas,  instituciones  y organismos  públicos,  privados  y  Estales;  y  el  cambio  climático  es  un problema con caracterí­sticas únicas, ya que su naturaleza global e impactos involucran interacciones complejas; por lo tanto, lo primero que debemos hacer como administradores es tener conciencia de que tan grave es el problema, y asumir a plenitud la fragilidad que nos asecha, como individuos parte de la humanidad; de esta  manera el compromiso como se advierte resulta insoslayable para la Administración.       Palabras clave: Administración, rol, ética, responsabilidad social, cambio climático.   Summary The  administration  is  a  social  science  entrusted  to  study,  directing  and designing  the  organizational  actions  inside  companies,  institutions  and public, private organisms and State; and the climate change is a problem with the only characteristics, since his global nature and impacts involve complex interactions; therefore, the first thing that we must do as administrators is to have conscience of which so serious it is the problem, and to assume to fullness the fragility that us, as individuals it departs from the humanity; hereby the commitment as he becomes aware turns out to be unavoidable for the Administration.   Key words: Administration,  role,  ethics,  social  responsibility,  climate change.  

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