The Lived Experience of Climate Change Knowledge, Science and Public Action

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abbott, Dina, Wilson, Gordon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A wealth of lived experience
  • Exploring the lived experience of climate change
  • Lived experience and scientific knowledge of climate change
  • Representing climate change: science, social science, interdisciplinary approaches and lived experience
  • Lived experience and advocates of local knowledge
  • Lived experience and discourses of mitigation, adaptation
  • Lived experience and engagement on climate change
  • Lived experience, science and a social imagination
  • Rationalist and public action theories of knowledge in climate change debates
  • Institutionalising lived experience in the public policy process
  • A public action approach to knowledge and intervention to meet the climate challenge