Mots-clés
Adaptation Changement climatique Changement global Déterminisme Environnement Géographie humaine Relation société-environnement Réchauffement climatique Sciences de la Terre Adaptation Climatic change Climatic warming Determinism Earth sciences Environment Global change Human geography Society-environment relationship Adaptación Cambio climático Cambio global Ciencias de la Tierra Determinismo Geografía humana Medio ambiente Recalentamiento climático Relación sociedad-medio ambienteEarth System Science, the IPCC and the problem of downward causation in human geographies of Global Climate Change
Exploring causal relations : the societal effects of climate change
Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)
NIELSEN, J.Ø.
Dept. of Anthropology, Waterworlds Research Centre, Univ., Copenhagen, Danemark
SEJERSEN, F.
Dept. of Anthropology, Waterworlds Research Centre, Inst. for Tvœrkulturelle og regionale studier, Univ., Copenhagen, Danemark
NIELSEN, J.Ø
Dept. of Anthropology, Univ., Copenhagen, Danemark
Waterworlds Research Centre, Univ., Copenhagen, Danemark
REENBERG, A.
Waterworlds Research Centre, Univ., Copenhagen, Danemark
Description :
Environmental determinism is resurfacing in human geography particularly when climate change is the topic of investigation. In this paper, the AA. trace this revival and link it to the dominance of Earth System Science (ESS) and the institutional process of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the climate change research community. In particular, they want to show how findings coming out of ESS and communicated through the IPCC create a discourse of hierarchical scale and downward causation that prescribes agency to climate. The AA. suggest that viewing scale as a social construction opens up for the analysis of climate change and its societal effects and interpretations outside the official script of the inevitability of adaptation.
Type de document :
Article de monographie
Source :
Geografisk tidsskrift, issn : 1903-2471, 2012, vol. 112, n°. 2, p. 194-202, nombre de pages : 9, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.
Date :
2012
Identifiants :
eurl : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2012.741885, doi : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2012.741885
Editeur :
Pays édition : Danemark, Kobenhavn, Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab
Langue :
Anglais
Anglais
Droits :
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