Sina Bremer
Biographic Data
| ID | 183330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sina Bremer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bremer |
| SIGNATURE | BREMER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4505-9386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Framing time: How temporalities shape climate change adaptation
Climate change adaptation is not just a technical or environmental challenge, but a temporal one, involving notions of urgency, delay, anticipation, and historical embedding. This article explores the intersection of adaptation and temporality, arguing that the communication, politics and practices of adapting to climate change are fundamentally shaped by divergent understandings and experiences of time. It reviews the empirical adaptation litera…
The Global Framework for Climate Services: An ‘imaginary’ of climate services shaping practice
Climate services are fast being embraced as key climate adaptation tools, in a drive to base societies’ adaptive decisions on advanced forecasting technologies. Desired futures for climate services are most clearly articulated through the World Meteorological Organisation’s Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), which describes a normative configuration of actors, practices, knowledges, and technologies through which climate services ought…
Introduction to Food Security and Sustainability: Knowledge, Communication, Politics
The Task Force on Environment, Sustainability and Climate (TFESC) of Academia Europaea investigates ways of enhancing global science policy communication on the topic of food security and sustainability. This Focus reports the initial outcome of this investigation in the form of three articles. First, given the complexity of the link between food security and sustainability, and in particular the two-way relation between the impact of food produc…
Adapting the social practice of beekeeping to a changing climate
Beekeeping offers a lens to study climate change, linking ecological dynamics with cultural practices, technologies, and livelihoods. While ecological impacts on bees and pollination are well studied, less is known about how beekeeping as a social practice adapts. This systematic review synthesizes 27 peer-reviewed studies across regions and disciplines, guided by social practice theory. We examine five interrelated dimensions—competences, materi…
Mapping the Demand, Development, and Delivery of Climate Services in the Greater Horn of Africa
Numerous research and development projects seek to improve climate services in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). However, we do not sufficiently understand how key elements of climate service production are currently engaged with. To address this evidence gap, we systematically review academic and gray literature collected via an extensive database search to understand the status of the demand, development, and delivery of climate services in the…
The Little Ice Age: The History and Future of a Traveling Concept
First coined in the 1930s, with reference to glaciation in North America, the concept of the “Little Ice Age” has undergone continuous revisions. It has traveled academically from glaciology to climatology, archeology, history, and, most recently, climate communication. Over time, it has grown into one of the most discussed topics in the field of climate history and attracts both considerable scholarly interest and public attention. The term “Lit…
A Model at its Limits: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the Inside
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, over almost 35 years, developed into a model for effecting science-led governance for global environmental change. However, on the back of the sixth Assessment Report, and with preparations underway for the seventh, the IPCC arguably faces an identity crisis. With many inside and outside the IPCC perceiving a persistent disconnect between this immense scientific enterprise and meaningful p…
Adaptation requires attuning to shifting temporal patterns
Is Bergen Unseasonal? On Europe’s Shifting Relation to Seasons
This article reflects on whether and how European communities’ cultural frameworks of seasons are coming to poorly correspond to the climatic conditions they experience, and the implications for how Europe adapts to climatic (and social and environmental) change. It starts from a colder- and drier-than-normal autumn and winter (2023/2024) in Bergen, Norway, and a local researcher’s investigation into why these climatically anomalous seasons were …
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula
There is a growing literature on the cultural capacities influencing communities’ adaptation to environmental and social change, including the temporal frameworks they draw on for timely action. This paper focuses on seasonal cultures, and how they enable communities on the Coromandel Peninsula to interpret and adapt practical timings to disrupted patterns of seasonal rhythms. The paper develops and applies a conceptual framework of seasonal cult…
Beyond the storm season: The polyrhythms of coastal hazardscapes on the Kūaotunu Peninsula
In this paper, we develop an account of engaged practice of coastal conservation groups with seasonalities on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, focusing particularly on the polyrhythmicity of change in its coastal hazardscape. While the hazardousness of a place has often been considered in static terms, we wish here to draw attention to its complex temporalities and highly seasonal nature. We emphasise the multiple exposures that exist wit…
Adapting seasonal beekeeping patterns in western Norway
This paper is about how Western Norway beekeepers synchronise their practices to perceived patterns of seasonal rhythms and adapt their timings and ways of working as they sense shifts in these rhythmic seasonal patterns associated with climatic and environmental (and social) change. It contributes to work on adaptation governance with an emphasis on the time sensitivity of adaptive action in institutions - the importance of taking the right acti…
Changing Seasonality: How Communities Are Revising Their Seasons
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making
This paper explores the implications of assessing tacit knowledges of climatic change in extended peer communities, as applied in two European research projects on climate action. Post-normal science (PNS) proposes the extension of the peer community to co-produce better quality knowledge for decision-making on issues like climate change, where facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent. The paper has two aims. The f…
Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact
Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention to institutions' informal side; their cultures. It is important to study institutions' cultures because it is through culture that people relate to institutional norms and rules in taking climate action. This review uncovers what …
My new routine’: Assessing the impact of citizen science on climate adaptation in Bangladesh
Co-producing “Post-normal” Climate Knowledge with Communities in Northeast Bangladesh
Concepts of knowledge “co-production” are increasingly encouraged in climate research, including as an extended mode of climate science inquiry. So-called “post-normal” science offers opportunities to advance this branch of co-production research with theory and methods. However, the literature lacks material of how to “do” climate knowledge co-production as extended science, and particularly as post-normal science. This paper presents an account…
Narrative as a Method for Eliciting Tacit Knowledge of Climate Variability in Bangladesh
Climate change adaptation has increasingly come to be conceptualized as a place-based social process, in large part mediated by the local cultural context. The specificity of adaptation has called for partnerships between scientific and local communities to “co-produce” knowledge of climate variability (weather) and longer-term climate change. However, this raises numerous methodological challenges, including how to elicit the representations, kn…
Co‐production in climate change research: Reviewing different perspectives
Notions of ‘co‐production’ are growing in popularity in social science and humanities research on climate change, although there is some ambiguity about the meanings of the term and how it is being used. It is time to critically and reflexively take stock of this expanding area of scholarship. A comprehensive review of over 130 scientific publications first mapped the scholars using co‐production, relative to characteristics like their discipline…
Have we given up too much? On yielding climate representation to experts
Our representations of climate are changing, and with them the ways we claim to know our local climates, and live according to them. Amidst this destabilising change in natural and social orders, scientific representations of climate are emerging as dominant. In this perspective piece I start from post-normal science and offer two arguments against completely yielding climate representation to experts, illustrated by my experiences in northeast B…
Negotiating a place for sustainability science: Narratives from the Waikaraka Estuary in New Zealand
Volunteer Management in German National Parks-from Random Action Toward a Volunteer Program
Co‐production in climate change research: Reviewing different perspectives
Notions of ‘co‐production’ are growing in popularity in social science and humanities research on climate change, although there is some ambiguity about the meanings of the term and how it is being used. It is time to critically and reflexively take stock of this expanding area of scholarship. A comprehensive review of over 130 scientific publications first mapped the scholars using co‐production, relative to characteristics like their discipline…
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making
This paper explores the implications of assessing tacit knowledges of climatic change in extended peer communities, as applied in two European research projects on climate action. Post-normal science (PNS) proposes the extension of the peer community to co-produce better quality knowledge for decision-making on issues like climate change, where facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent. The paper has two aims. The f…
Negotiating a place for sustainability science: Narratives from the Waikaraka Estuary in New Zealand
Have we given up too much? On yielding climate representation to experts
Our representations of climate are changing, and with them the ways we claim to know our local climates, and live according to them. Amidst this destabilising change in natural and social orders, scientific representations of climate are emerging as dominant. In this perspective piece I start from post-normal science and offer two arguments against completely yielding climate representation to experts, illustrated by my experiences in northeast B…
Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact
Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention to institutions' informal side; their cultures. It is important to study institutions' cultures because it is through culture that people relate to institutional norms and rules in taking climate action. This review uncovers what …
My new routine’: Assessing the impact of citizen science on climate adaptation in Bangladesh
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula
There is a growing literature on the cultural capacities influencing communities’ adaptation to environmental and social change, including the temporal frameworks they draw on for timely action. This paper focuses on seasonal cultures, and how they enable communities on the Coromandel Peninsula to interpret and adapt practical timings to disrupted patterns of seasonal rhythms. The paper develops and applies a conceptual framework of seasonal cult…
Adapting seasonal beekeeping patterns in western Norway
This paper is about how Western Norway beekeepers synchronise their practices to perceived patterns of seasonal rhythms and adapt their timings and ways of working as they sense shifts in these rhythmic seasonal patterns associated with climatic and environmental (and social) change. It contributes to work on adaptation governance with an emphasis on the time sensitivity of adaptive action in institutions - the importance of taking the right acti…
Volunteer Management in German National Parks-from Random Action Toward a Volunteer Program
Negotiating a place for sustainability science: Narratives from the Waikaraka Estuary in New Zealand
Narrative as a Method for Eliciting Tacit Knowledge of Climate Variability in Bangladesh
Climate change adaptation has increasingly come to be conceptualized as a place-based social process, in large part mediated by the local cultural context. The specificity of adaptation has called for partnerships between scientific and local communities to “co-produce” knowledge of climate variability (weather) and longer-term climate change. However, this raises numerous methodological challenges, including how to elicit the representations, kn…
Co‐production in climate change research: Reviewing different perspectives
Notions of ‘co‐production’ are growing in popularity in social science and humanities research on climate change, although there is some ambiguity about the meanings of the term and how it is being used. It is time to critically and reflexively take stock of this expanding area of scholarship. A comprehensive review of over 130 scientific publications first mapped the scholars using co‐production, relative to characteristics like their discipline…
Have we given up too much? On yielding climate representation to experts
Our representations of climate are changing, and with them the ways we claim to know our local climates, and live according to them. Amidst this destabilising change in natural and social orders, scientific representations of climate are emerging as dominant. In this perspective piece I start from post-normal science and offer two arguments against completely yielding climate representation to experts, illustrated by my experiences in northeast B…
Co-producing “Post-normal” Climate Knowledge with Communities in Northeast Bangladesh
Concepts of knowledge “co-production” are increasingly encouraged in climate research, including as an extended mode of climate science inquiry. So-called “post-normal” science offers opportunities to advance this branch of co-production research with theory and methods. However, the literature lacks material of how to “do” climate knowledge co-production as extended science, and particularly as post-normal science. This paper presents an account…
My new routine’: Assessing the impact of citizen science on climate adaptation in Bangladesh
Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact
Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention to institutions' informal side; their cultures. It is important to study institutions' cultures because it is through culture that people relate to institutional norms and rules in taking climate action. This review uncovers what …
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making
This paper explores the implications of assessing tacit knowledges of climatic change in extended peer communities, as applied in two European research projects on climate action. Post-normal science (PNS) proposes the extension of the peer community to co-produce better quality knowledge for decision-making on issues like climate change, where facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent. The paper has two aims. The f…
Changing Seasonality: How Communities Are Revising Their Seasons
Adaptation requires attuning to shifting temporal patterns
Is Bergen Unseasonal? On Europe’s Shifting Relation to Seasons
This article reflects on whether and how European communities’ cultural frameworks of seasons are coming to poorly correspond to the climatic conditions they experience, and the implications for how Europe adapts to climatic (and social and environmental) change. It starts from a colder- and drier-than-normal autumn and winter (2023/2024) in Bergen, Norway, and a local researcher’s investigation into why these climatically anomalous seasons were …
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula
There is a growing literature on the cultural capacities influencing communities’ adaptation to environmental and social change, including the temporal frameworks they draw on for timely action. This paper focuses on seasonal cultures, and how they enable communities on the Coromandel Peninsula to interpret and adapt practical timings to disrupted patterns of seasonal rhythms. The paper develops and applies a conceptual framework of seasonal cult…
Beyond the storm season: The polyrhythms of coastal hazardscapes on the Kūaotunu Peninsula
In this paper, we develop an account of engaged practice of coastal conservation groups with seasonalities on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, focusing particularly on the polyrhythmicity of change in its coastal hazardscape. While the hazardousness of a place has often been considered in static terms, we wish here to draw attention to its complex temporalities and highly seasonal nature. We emphasise the multiple exposures that exist wit…
Adapting seasonal beekeeping patterns in western Norway
This paper is about how Western Norway beekeepers synchronise their practices to perceived patterns of seasonal rhythms and adapt their timings and ways of working as they sense shifts in these rhythmic seasonal patterns associated with climatic and environmental (and social) change. It contributes to work on adaptation governance with an emphasis on the time sensitivity of adaptive action in institutions - the importance of taking the right acti…
Mapping the Demand, Development, and Delivery of Climate Services in the Greater Horn of Africa
Numerous research and development projects seek to improve climate services in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). However, we do not sufficiently understand how key elements of climate service production are currently engaged with. To address this evidence gap, we systematically review academic and gray literature collected via an extensive database search to understand the status of the demand, development, and delivery of climate services in the…
The Little Ice Age: The History and Future of a Traveling Concept
First coined in the 1930s, with reference to glaciation in North America, the concept of the “Little Ice Age” has undergone continuous revisions. It has traveled academically from glaciology to climatology, archeology, history, and, most recently, climate communication. Over time, it has grown into one of the most discussed topics in the field of climate history and attracts both considerable scholarly interest and public attention. The term “Lit…
A Model at its Limits: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the Inside
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, over almost 35 years, developed into a model for effecting science-led governance for global environmental change. However, on the back of the sixth Assessment Report, and with preparations underway for the seventh, the IPCC arguably faces an identity crisis. With many inside and outside the IPCC perceiving a persistent disconnect between this immense scientific enterprise and meaningful p…
Framing time: How temporalities shape climate change adaptation
Climate change adaptation is not just a technical or environmental challenge, but a temporal one, involving notions of urgency, delay, anticipation, and historical embedding. This article explores the intersection of adaptation and temporality, arguing that the communication, politics and practices of adapting to climate change are fundamentally shaped by divergent understandings and experiences of time. It reviews the empirical adaptation litera…
The Global Framework for Climate Services: An ‘imaginary’ of climate services shaping practice
Climate services are fast being embraced as key climate adaptation tools, in a drive to base societies’ adaptive decisions on advanced forecasting technologies. Desired futures for climate services are most clearly articulated through the World Meteorological Organisation’s Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), which describes a normative configuration of actors, practices, knowledges, and technologies through which climate services ought…
Introduction to Food Security and Sustainability: Knowledge, Communication, Politics
The Task Force on Environment, Sustainability and Climate (TFESC) of Academia Europaea investigates ways of enhancing global science policy communication on the topic of food security and sustainability. This Focus reports the initial outcome of this investigation in the form of three articles. First, given the complexity of the link between food security and sustainability, and in particular the two-way relation between the impact of food produc…
Adapting the social practice of beekeeping to a changing climate
Beekeeping offers a lens to study climate change, linking ecological dynamics with cultural practices, technologies, and livelihoods. While ecological impacts on bees and pollination are well studied, less is known about how beekeeping as a social practice adapts. This systematic review synthesizes 27 peer-reviewed studies across regions and disciplines, guided by social practice theory. We examine five interrelated dimensions—competences, materi…
Climate change (13 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (6 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (6 works) · Social science (6 works)