Adaptation in the Scientific Method: An Outline for Mutual Learning and Knowledge Co-production in Climate Science

IF 1.7 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT
None Suresh Babu. GS
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Climate change is taken as a new site of scientific inquiry across the disciplines against the backdrop of the global discourses of the crisis human society confronts today. Our inability to predict and forecast the future and the problems of climate change led to a theoretical vacuum and thereby burden on the scientific communities. Climate change-induced uncertainties manifested in the manifold and their implications on human society, livelihood and ecosystem have increasingly become the objects of analysis for devising empirical tools for field enquiry. It challenges the specificities while looking at the events of uncertainties in context. The new set of evidence on climate change has also redefined the role of the scientific community. This paper discusses climate-related events in the lives of people and the changes in the ecosystem and explores how such factors became an object of scientific inquiry. With the ideas of political ecology, the domain of scientific practices is transformed into an arena of co-production of knowledge in which place, social context and agencies become central. This study explores (1) how the scientific community adapted to outline an interdisciplinary research programme to systematically investigate and register climate-change-affected areas and (2) how the local people in Ladakh Himalaya have participated and reflected on the changing pattern of livelihood and ecosystem through this research enquiry. It has further complicated the analysis on nature-culture dialectics to adapt a robust scientific method to signify the importance of mutual learning and knowledge co-production in climate science.
科学方法中的适应:气候科学的相互学习和知识合作生产纲要
气候变化被认为是跨学科的科学探究的新地点,反对人类社会今天面临的危机的全球话语的背景。我们无法预测和预测未来以及气候变化问题导致了理论真空,从而给科学界带来了负担。气候变化引起的各种不确定性及其对人类社会、生计和生态系统的影响日益成为设计实地调查经验工具的分析对象。它挑战了特殊性,同时着眼于背景中的不确定性事件。关于气候变化的新证据也重新定义了科学界的角色。本文讨论了人们生活中的气候相关事件和生态系统的变化,并探讨了这些因素如何成为科学探究的对象。有了政治生态学的思想,科学实践的领域被转变为一个共同生产知识的舞台,在这个舞台上,地方、社会背景和机构成为中心。本研究探讨了(1)科学界如何适应制定一个跨学科研究计划,以系统地调查和记录气候变化影响地区;(2)拉达克喜马拉雅地区的当地人如何通过研究调查参与并反思不断变化的生计和生态系统模式。用一种强有力的科学方法来表明气候科学中相互学习和知识合作生产的重要性,使自然-文化辩证法的分析进一步复杂化。
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期刊介绍: Science, Technology and Society is an international journal devoted to the study of science and technology in social context. It focuses on the way in which advances in science and technology influence society and vice versa. It is a peer-reviewed journal that takes an interdisciplinary perspective, encouraging analyses whose approaches are drawn from a variety of disciplines such as history, sociology, philosophy, economics, political science and international relations, science policy involving innovation, foresight studies involving science and technology, technology management, environmental studies, energy studies and gender studies. The journal consciously endeavors to combine scholarly perspectives relevant to academic research and policy issues relating to development. Besides research articles the journal encourages research-based country reports, commentaries and book reviews.
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