Clumsy solutions and climate change
A retrospective
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12929311 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Marco Verweij (0000-0001-9169-1852, Constructor University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2022 |
| Volumen | 14 |
| Número | 1 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2022-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.804 |
| OpenAlex | W4307730774 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 8 |
| Referencias citadas | 94 |
In 1989, Steve Rayner chided fellow anthropologists for “fiddling while the world warms.” This was the starting point of a decades‐long application to human‐made climate change of the cultural theory that he had developed with Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson. It culminated in a call to develop “clumsy” solutions for addressing the issue. Since then, the concept of clumsy solutions has been applied, praised, and criticised. To clarify its strengths and weaknesses, I first set out cultural theory and explain how the notion of clumsy solutions was derived from it. I then assess the extent to which this notion has increased our understanding of climate change governance. I do so by breaking up the application of this concept into seven predictions, concerning: (1) the major perspectives among stakeholders on how to resolve climate change; (2) the fate of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; (3) the feasibility of international emissions trading; (4) the possibility of making renewable energy competitive; (5) the need for domestic governmental action to realize this possibility; (6) the effectiveness of a nonbinding global treaty to combat climate change; and (7) the need to explore adaptation, carbon capture, and geoengineering. I show that these predictions have stood the test of time. Finally, I discuss the roles that the concept of clumsy solutions can play in future climate change governance. This article is written in memory of Steve Rayner, one of the first social scientists to focus on climate change. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Sociology/Anthropology of Climate Knowledge Climate, History, Society, Culture > Thought Leaders
Climate change · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Kyoto Protocol · Management · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Treaty · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Psychology · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Social Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Worldview-Specific Policy Stories in Participatory Climate Adaptation Processes
International environment agreements and emissions reduction
Varieties of development
Chinese Policy Responses to Covid ‐19, Trust in Government, and Cultural Worldviews
A Set Theoretic Approach to Account for Clumsy Solutions
A cultural theory of support for populism
Energy transitions
Varieties of populism in 21st-century Latin America and their manifestations in regional integration
Environmental Public Policy Making Exposed
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
The structure of ill structured problems
Cultural Theory's Contributions to Risk Analysis
The Idea Of An Overlapping Consensus
Realization of Paris Agreement pledges may limit warming just below 2 °C
Together We Stand, Divided We Fall
Public Policy and Political Institutions
Incompletely Theorized Agreements
Beyond the Tipping Point
Weather, Climate, and Worldviews
The Cultural Theory of Risk for Climate Change Adaptation
Assessing the Operationalization of Cultural Theory through Surveys Investigating the Social Aspects of Climate Change Policy Making
Debating Climate Change
Why We Disagree about Climate Change
Compliance of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in the first commitment period
Is the Paris Agreement effective? A systematic map of the evidence
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100
Culture and the Common Management of Global Risks
Social readiness of adaptation technologies
Trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration
Will the Paris Agreement accelerate the pace of change
Institutional and environmental effectiveness
The “top-down” Kyoto Protocol? Exploring caricature and misrepresentation in literature on global climate change governance
The Wrong Solution at the Right Time
Under What Conditions Will the Paris Process Produce a Cycle of Increasing Ambition Sufficient to Reach the 2°C Goal
Assessing the alignment of national-level adaptation plans to the Paris Agreement
Adaptation to climate change at local level in Europe
Distal factors in risk perception
The influence of cultural worldviews on people’s responses to hurricane risks and threat information
Using Programme Theory to Evaluate Complicated and Complex Aspects of Interventions
Risk management for global environmental change
Institutions, climate change and cultural theory
Conceptualizing sustainable development
Management of Radiation Hazards in Hospitals
The Effect of the Kyoto Protocol on Carbon Emissions
Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs
A Cultural Theory of Partisanship and Policy Attitudes
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Among the Energy Tribes
The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
Measuring cultural values and beliefs about environment to identify their role in climate change responses
Making Sense of Climate Change
Risk and Governance Part II
Risk and Governance Part I
Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
A strategy for better climate change regulation
Fiddling While the Globe Warms
The cultural nature of risk
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 4 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 7 |