Adaptation in the Scientific Method
An Outline for Mutual Learning and Knowledge Co-production in Climate Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19450313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suresh Babu G (0000-0003-4640-0512, corresponding author), Suresh Babu GS Suresh Babu GS |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 621-638 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0971-7218 • E-ISSN: 0973-0796 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09717218231197448 |
| OpenAlex | W4387305375 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Climate change is taken as a new site of scientific inquiry across the disciplines against the backdrop of the global discourses of the crisis human society confronts today. Our inability to predict and forecast the future and the problems of climate change led to a theoretical vacuum and thereby burden on the scientific communities. Climate change-induced uncertainties manifested in the manifold and their implications on human society, livelihood and ecosystem have increasingly become the objects of analysis for devising empirical tools for field enquiry. It challenges the specificities while looking at the events of uncertainties in context. The new set of evidence on climate change has also redefined the role of the scientific community. This paper discusses climate-related events in the lives of people and the changes in the ecosystem and explores how such factors became an object of scientific inquiry. With the ideas of political ecology, the domain of scientific practices is transformed into an arena of co-production of knowledge in which place, social context and agencies become central. This study explores (1) how the scientific community adapted to outline an interdisciplinary research programme to systematically investigate and register climate-change-affected areas and (2) how the local people in Ladakh Himalaya have participated and reflected on the changing pattern of livelihood and ecosystem through this research enquiry. It has further complicated the analysis on nature-culture dialectics to adapt a robust scientific method to signify the importance of mutual learning and knowledge co-production in climate science
Climate change · Dialectic · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Epistemology · Geography · Livelihood · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Environmental Science · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Researchers' roles in knowledge co-production
Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene
Contemporary Economic Sociology
Climate change, science and community
Down to Earth
Civility and Subversion
The social construction of reality
Politics of Nature
Social Theory and Climate Change
Climate for Change, or How to Create a Green Modernity
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