Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement
University of Oslo · Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences · +14 more institutions
Abstract
Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements confront material and social-political infrastructures that support the status quo. Effective action requires new ways of conceptualizing society, climate and environment and yet current research struggles to break free of established categories. In response, this contribution revisits important insights from the social sciences and humanities on the co-production of political economies, cultures, societies and biophysical relations and shows the possibilities for ontological pluralism to open up…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 31.94
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- 100%
- References
- 98
Authors
17Topics & keywords
- Framing (construction)
- Normative
- Status quo
- Politics
- Climate change
- Sociology
- Environmental ethics
- Plural
- Climate action