The Lived Experience of Climate Change Knowledge, Science and Public Action /

• Main Authors: Abbott, Dina (Author), Wilson, Gordon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Electric power production.; Climate change.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Climate Change.; Energy Technology.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Environmental Economics.

This book explores the idea that daily lived experiences of climate change are a crucial missing link in our knowledge that contrasts with scientific understandings of this global problem. It argues that both kinds of knowledge are limiting: the sciences by their disciplines and lived experiences by...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A wealth of lived experience
• Exploring the lived experience of climate change
• Lived experience and scientific knowledge of climate change
• Representing climate change: science, social science, interdisciplinary approaches and lived experience
• Lived experience and advocates of local knowledge
• Lived experience and discourses of mitigation, adaptation
• Lived experience and engagement on climate change
• Lived experience, science and a social imagination
• Rationalist and public action theories of knowledge in climate change debates
• Institutionalising lived experience in the public policy process
• A public action approach to knowledge and intervention to meet the climate challenge.