The wicked problem of climate change and interdisciplinary research: Tracking management scholarship's contribution

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Wohlgezogen ◽  
Angela McCabe ◽  
Tom Osegowitsch ◽  
Joeri Mol
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Management Scholarship ◽  
Urgent Action

Abstract Taking urgent action to combat climate change is a pivotal Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Since it is closely intertwined with the other 16 goals, it is frequently characterized as a ‘wicked problem par excellence.’ Interdisciplinary research, i.e., research crossing disciplinary boundaries, offers promise for grappling with wicked problems, but also entails significant challenges to researchers. In this study, we use bibliometric methods to understand how management scholars have, over the course of four decades, straddled disciplinary boundaries and what impact their efforts have had on top-tier climate change research appearing in Science and Nature. We find that management scholarship on climate change (1) has grown significantly since the mid-2000s, (2) features substantial engagement with an interdisciplinary knowledge base, and (3) fails to attract the attention of climate change research within top-tier interdisciplinary journals. We discuss these findings with reference to the ongoing discourse on raising management scholarship's relevance and impact.

Developing Climate Change Literacy to Combat Climate Change and Its Impacts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Vital Element ◽  
Urgent Action

<p>If literacy can be defined as competence or knowledge in a specific area, then climate change literacy is competence or knowledge in the area of climate change, its impacts, and its solutions. Climate change literacy is a vital element in strategies for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13: "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts" — and, frankly, safeguarding the survival of the human species and most life on Earth. Developing climate change literacy in individuals, institutions, and societies entails understanding why it is important, who must be involved, what it includes, where and when it takes place, how to deal with challenges that arise, and what the end result, a climate-change-literate citizen, will look like.</p>

Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) for Climate Change

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zili Yang ◽  
Yi-Ming Wei ◽  
Zhifu Mi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Integrated Assessment Models

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) for climate change refers to a broad category of research approaches in climate change. Climate change is the most complicated global environmental problem. By the very nature of climate change, research has to be interdisciplinary and multifaceted. IAM is the mainstream methodological approach in climate change research. Most researchers in climate change utilize IAMs directly or indirectly. IAMs draw knowledge and strengths from various disciplines related to climate change; contributions from each discipline rely on the mathematical representations of certain relationships connected to climate change; disciplinary components are linked through a unified modeling platform(s). In particular, IAMs for climate change usually involve social-economic components as well as natural sciences components. The key linkages in IAM platforms are anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in climate systems and climate change impacts on social-economic systems. The outputs of IAMs are numerical simulation results based on assumptions, historical data, and scenario designs. IAMs are widely used in assessing various GHG mitigation policies and climate impacts. In fact, conclusions in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports are drawn substantially from numerous IAMs. IAMs for climate change started in the late 1980s. Since then, IAMs for climate change have developed into a full-fledged interdisciplinary research field that involves hundreds of models, thriving online resources, and thousands of academic publications and policy reports around the world. IAM for climate change, as an interdisciplinary research approach, has received recognition by mainstream disciplines. The Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (DICE) and the Regional Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE)—two IAMs for climate change—are part of the core contributions in William Nordhaus’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018.

scholarly journals Online game-based learning on climate change: innovation in the internationalization of higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 905 (1) ◽  
pp. 012045
Author(s):  
P Wiratama ◽  
D G Suharto ◽  
I D A Nurhaeni
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Urgent Action

Abstract Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is essential for achieving SDG’s goals, including goal 13: take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact. Game-based learning is a promising cutting-edge innovation in learning methods. Nevertheless, the internationalization of higher education demanding more technology utilization to enable transnational classes. This study provides a SWOT analysis of the online game-based learning (OGBL) method on clime change issues. Based on the PRISMA guidelines, this study concludes that OGBL has more strengths and opportunities than weaknesses and threats. Strength factors namely flexible, engaging, and enhance the learning process. Opportunities such as emerging academic community and events, developing new professions, and abundance of the development areas. However, game development is complex as a weakness. The varieties of technology savviness levels among facilitators and users and the digital divide are threats to OGBL.

scholarly journals Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking interdisciplinarity

2021 ◽  
Vol 168 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Lisa F. Schipper ◽  
Navroz K. Dubash ◽  
Yacob Mulugetta
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge

Abstract Growing political pressure to find solutions to climate change is leading to increasing calls for multiple disciplines, in particular those that are not traditionally part of climate change research, to contribute new knowledge systems that can offer deeper and broader insights to address the problem. Recognition of the complexity of climate change compels researchers to draw on interdisciplinary knowledge that marries natural sciences with social sciences and humanities. Yet most interdisciplinary approaches fail to adequately merge the framings of the disparate disciplines, resulting in reductionist messages that are largely devoid of context, and hence provide incomplete and misleading analysis for decision-making. For different knowledge systems to work better together toward climate solutions, we need to reframe the way questions are asked and research pursued, in order to inform action without slipping into reductionism. We suggest that interdisciplinarity needs to be rethought. This will require accepting a plurality of narratives, embracing multiple disciplinary perspectives, and shifting expectations of public messaging, and above all looking to integrate the appropriate disciplines that can help understand human systems in order to better mediate action.

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