Adaptive Epistemologies
Conceptualizing Adaptation to Climate Change in Environmental Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shana L Hirsch (0000-0003-3131-1701, Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, corresponding author), Jerrold Long (College of Law, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA), Jerrold A Long (0000-0002-5912-8661, University of Idaho) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 298-319 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243919898517 |
| OpenAlex | W3000558540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article explores how scientists adapt to a changing climate. To do this, we bring examples from a case study of salmon habitat restorationists in the Columbia River Basin into conversation with concepts from previous work on change and stability in knowledge infrastructures and scientific practice. In order to adapt, ecological restorationists are increasingly relying on predictive modeling tools, as well as initiating broader changes in the interdisciplinary nature of the field of ecological restoration itself. We explore how the field of ecological restoration is shifting its conceptual gaze from restoring to past, historic baselines to anticipating a no-analog future and consider what this means in terms of understanding the adaptive capacity of knowledge infrastructures and epistemic communities more broadly. We argue that identifying how scientists themselves conceptualize drivers of change and respond to these changes is an important step in understanding what adaptive capacity in science might entail. We offer these examples as a provocation for thinking about "adaptive epistemologies" and how adaptation by scientists themselves can facilitate or hinder particular environmental or sociotechnical futures
Adaptive Management · Anthropocene · Climate change · Conversation · Environmental resource management · Futures contract · Knowledge management · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Species Distribution and Climate Change · Ecology
Science in action
Nature by Design
Situational Analysis
Ignorance and Surprise
Synthesizing U.S. River Restoration Efforts
Steps towards an ecology of infrastructure
The Long Now of Technology Infrastructure
Novel climates, no-analog communities, and ecological surprises
The organic machine
Fields and Streams
Sorting Things Out
States of Knowledge
Infrastructure Time
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
The Politics of Ecological Restoration
Making Salmon
A vast machine
Shifting Restoration Policy to Address Landscape Change, Novel Ecosystems, and Monitoring
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Making Salmon
Epistemic Cultures
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |