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Earth 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
Droits :
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