Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders

Environmental Policy and Governance, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 33(6), P. 583 - 592

Published: Nov. 5, 2023

Abstract The global environmental crisis is the result of a complex web causation and distributed agency, where not even most powerful individual actors can be considered responsible nor remedy situation alone. This has prompted multiple calls across societies for transformative social change. What role accountability play in this context? Starting theoretical traditions microsociology pragmatic sociology, article elaborates interactions. To provide an account that justifies action or inaction here understood as process ordering, accounts are assessed acceptable only after they have been tested against higher normative principles. Microsocial practices are, way, linked to macrosocial order. following section turns crisis, showing raises well epistemic challenges. complexity socio‐environmental makes it hard know what should done opens orders claims contestation. provides increased opportunities strategic maneuvering justify actions question concludes by discussing climate Accountability serve mechanism attach issues current re‐embed decisions practice moral As part broader palette instruments, rules norms, important function transforming society towards sustainability.

Language: Английский

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Expertise for policy-relevant knowledge. IPBES’s epistemic infrastructure and guidance to make environmental assessments

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: March 8, 2023

Organizations conducting global environmental assessments (GEAs) face the challenge of not only producing trustworthy and policy-relevant knowledge but also recruiting training experts to conduct these GEAs. These must acquire skills competencies needed produce assessments. By adopting an institutional approach, this paper explores IPBES's epistemic infrastructure that aims communicate form expertise is its The empirical material consists educational material, which teaches new how perform assessment. analysis finds three crucial tasks introduced in are expected learn perform. concludes by discussing broader importance findings organizations GEAs passive intermediaries instead, through their infrastructure, generate ways understand navigate world, both for those who create receive assessment report.

Language: Английский

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Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC

Climatic Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 177(10)

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

Abstract This article discusses “academic housekeeping” undertaken within IPCC, understood as the work that is rarely made visible or rewarded, but nevertheless essential to success of organization. It explores conditions, motivations, and implications for individual researchers involved in with particular emphasis on invisible, un(der)recognised unrewarded they engage in. The empirical material consists an interview study IPCC assessment work. concludes a discussion experts, expert organisations, academic institutions.

Language: Английский

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Who are the green transition experts? Towards a new research agenda on climate change knowledge

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 5, 2024

Abstract Experts play a significant role in shaping global and local norms on how societies should respond to the climate crisis. However, current scholarship relationship between expertise change has not fully addressed recent transformations field, specifically emergence increasingly influential of what we term “green transition expertise.” We define green as more applied, normative, contextual form knowledge that is contrasted with formalized, pure science “climate If experts assess deteriorating state climate, then tell states corporations they do about it. argue if social further deepen its grasp politics analytically normatively, it must embrace “post‐IPCC” research agenda turns toward studying power directing corporate action. Based review literature, contrast extant IPCC an emerging post‐IPCC along three dimensions: expert cast (who are experts?), content (what know?) context (where located?). By marking shift each these dimensions, sensitizes overlooked powerful forms expertise. To facilitate their study, six specific areas require detailed attention develops. This article categorized under: The Social Status Climate Change Knowledge > Sociology/Anthropology Policy Governance National Climate, History, Society, Culture Ideas

Language: Английский

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Who and what are represented in the IPCC’s assessments? Institutional diversity and the politics of representation in global environmental assessments

Research Square (Research Square), Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 13, 2023

Abstract In line with the IPCC’s own mandate to select a more diverse group of experts contribute their assessments, proportion women and participants from Global South has increased over recent assessment cycles. Criticisms remain, however, continued dominance institutions North, relative place different disciplinary transdisciplinary knowledges in extent which, once selected participate, underrepresented groups have space opportunity speak be heard. Taken together, these criticisms point particular weakness diversity agenda – that an imperative been institutionalised, it becomes just another target or metric gamed. As top-down, depoliticised measure, institutional can serve obscure even exacerbate exclusion marginalised groups. This article proposes move away concentration on as indicator plurality epistemic strength organisation, towards focus politics representation. is radical two specific ways: firstly, entails openness transparency IPCC how assessments are produced. Representation cannot easily quantified but must observed analysed qualitatively. Secondly, understands that, unlike diversity, representation requires agency capacity, signifying relationship between participant. thus conceptualised political, yet impactful way extending policy (and social) relevance.

Language: Английский

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Ecologies of integrated modeling: configuring policy-relevance in Swedish climate governance

Frontiers in Climate, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 5

Published: Sept. 22, 2023

Due to the long timescales and deep uncertainties involved, comprehensive model-building has played a pivotal role in creating shared expectations about future trajectories for addressing climate change processes, mobilizing network of knowledge-based experts who assist defining common problems, identifying policy solutions, assessing outcomes. At intersection between science governance, where wholly empirical methods are infeasible, numerical simulations have become central practice evaluating truth claims, key medium transport translation data, methods, guiding principles among actors involved. What makes integrated assessment unique as modeling-effort is that it explicitly policy-oriented, justified by its policy-relevance. Although recognized Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change invaluable their review assessments, modeling implementations Paris Agreement, such impact assessments legislation national level, far less known. Taking starting-point boundary-work carried out public administration, this paper examines how foresight knowledge produced with help model-based scenario analysis been made relevant Swedish policymaking, focusing processes which indicators political action institutionalized through choice use model parameters. It concludes arguing an expanded understanding policy-relevance, beyond institutional approaches toward process-based point view, treating relevance something in-the-making.

Language: Английский

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Who gets to imagine a fossil-free future? Ontological politics of knowledge-action co-production in the Swedish just transition

Environmental Politics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 22

Published: Dec. 26, 2024

Just climate transitions require transformations reweaving the fabric of modern societies and necessitate co-production knowledge action informed by ontological epistemic pluralism. I analyse politics just as politics, observing how a Swedish research programme tries to bridge ontologies 'green modernity' 'resistance' through that 'planetary boundaries'. show these generate distinctive ideas transition/transformation justice, governance theories praxes, understandings knowledge-action links. The theoretical framework political ontology reflects imperative deepen discussions on green include questions 'beyond technical fixes': well-being, reconnection between land those who live it, recognition colonial legacy. argue go beyond tokenistic co-production, researchers must be ready able successfully navigate in which production is inevitably entangled.

Language: Английский

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Divergence over solutions to adapt or transform Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

npj Climate Action, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 3(1)

Published: Dec. 5, 2024

There is increasing agreement among Australian policymakers and stakeholders that climate change the biggest problem facing Great Barrier Reef. However, little known about whether this convergence shapes perspectives on solutions. To understand different actor solutions for Reef, we applied a 'problem-solution' framework employing Q-methodology to guide in-depth interviews with engaged actors. We found despite growing over problem, significant divergence remains. identified six generalised ranging from technology-led adaptation at one end of spectrum radical transitions other. support market-led, regionally-led, represents new shift toward transformational policy beyond conventional bounds GBR governance. multiple divergent suggest more reflexive learning required effectively govern critical ecosystem into future.

Language: Английский

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Miljösociologi i går, i dag och i morgon

Sociologisk Forskning, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 60(3-4), P. 371 - 377

Published: Dec. 31, 2023

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Vem bryr sig om klimatsociologen?

Sociologisk Forskning, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 60(3-4), P. 379 - 389

Published: Dec. 31, 2023

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