Cornell pe&rc day wageningen nov 2014
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1. This document discusses the challenges of conducting interdisciplinary global change science to understand complex environmental issues. 2. It provides a brief history of global change research programs and notes the need for a new system of global environmental science to integrate natural and social sciences across disciplinary, environmental, and development issues. 3. The document recognizes that global change science must find ways to include diverse local knowledge and voices from around the world to truly understand global systems and humanity's role in environmental changes.
![The global change research programmes [] recognise that there is
growing concern over the ever-increasing human modification of the
global environment and the consequent implications for human well-being.
A new system of global environmental science is required.
This is beginning to evolve from complementary approaches of the
international global change research programmes and needs
strengthening and further development.
It will draw strongly on the existing and expanding disciplinary
base of global change science; integrate across disciplines,
environment and development issues and the natural and social sciences;
collaborate across national boundaries [] to build an efficient international
system of global environmental science.
(Amsterdam Declaration, 2001)
Other literature: EURAB 2004, US National Academies
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- 1. 1 A PARTNER WITH Dr Sarah Cornell Wageningen, November 2014 Unity of knowledge?油 Global science for global changes
- 2. Understanding the whole Earth? We cant but we must!
- 3. From Steffen et al. 2004, IGBP
- 6. A very partial timeline of global change science: Weart (2008), Liverman et al. (2002), Cornell (2010), Uhrqvist 2014
- 7. The Bretherton Diagram (NASA 1988) set out the observational, conceptual and computational modelling framework for 1-2 decades of global change research. Spot the human.. .
- 8. The global change research programmes [] recognise that there is growing concern over the ever-increasing human modification of the global environment and the consequent implications for human well-being. A new system of global environmental science is required. This is beginning to evolve from complementary approaches of the international global change research programmes and needs strengthening and further development. It will draw strongly on the existing and expanding disciplinary base of global change science; integrate across disciplines, environment and development issues and the natural and social sciences; collaborate across national boundaries [] to build an efficient international system of global environmental science. (Amsterdam Declaration, 2001) Other literature: EURAB 2004, US National Academies COSEPUP 2004, ESF-COST RESCUE 2012
- 9. M. Polanyi 1941, The growth of thought in society. Dugger 1988, An institutional analysis of corporate power Demeritt 2001, The construction of global warming
- 10. Science Policy Decision landscape Climate Earth system knowledge, local gaps Global agreement on targets and metrics Big science Biodiversity Local knowledge, system gaps Global agreement on targets and metrics Concerned coalitions Biogeochemistry Gaps in local and system knowledge Partial regional agreements, emerging issue Many different players Chemical pollution Local knowledge, system gaps Partial agreements, weak metrics Big business
- 11. The international challenge does global science really look at The World? NOAA ESRL sites climate and biogeochemistry, map from www.esrl.noaa.gov Active sites Inactive (one-off) sites IUCN/UNEP World Database of Protected Areas protectedplanet.net
- 13. Who dont we see/hear when we talk of humanity and the world? Fox-Keller 1986
- 14. Why not join jellywatch.org, www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatchbbc, Tea Bag Index www.decolab.org/tbi, mappiness.org.uk, www.juegos.com/juego/climate-chaos Intercultural challenges: Global science has new opportunities and new responsibilities
- 15. Interdisciplinarity bridges knowledge cultures Research methods Evidence Jargon Prose Prospects Internationality Conference protocols Gender and power relations Perceptions (ooh or yuk) Unfamiliar worlds Nissani 1997 (Ten cheers) My own trajectory: chemistry environmental science environmental economics human dimensions
- 16. Normal experience in global change science: tensions of working across or between disciplines challenges of meeting changing policy needs
- 17. Timeframe Language Dis/Comfort Shotgun wedding approach Pragmatic pick 卒n mix Building a shared understanding Interdisciplinarities differ:
- 18. Hippocrab,pixdaus.com Good unities (knowledge integration) deepen and extend our knowledge. Bad ones might work in some regards Schellnhuber 1987 Earth system analysis: the scope of the challenge Cornell 2010, in Bhaskar et al. Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change Rigour Innovation Reflexivity
- 19. So what do we do? Precaution Provisionality Participation Pausing to reflect Preiser and Cilliers 2010, Romm 1998, Macnaghten et al. 2005, Doubleday 2007 (Re)read Listen Question Act
- 20. E.O. Wilson: If we dream, press to discover, explain and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow become clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected and make sense. (Consilience, 1998)
Editor's Notes
- #2: Unity of knowledge?油Global science for global changes Sarah Cornell, Stockholm Resilience Centre 油 Global changes, both environmental and social, are the focus of intense research attention and for very good reasons: human activities are a key cause of these changes, and our societies are feeling their consequences. I will explore the development of the global science of global changes, using the grand idea of the unity of knowledge as a prism to highlight some current challenges and some cheering prospects for the place of this science in society. Advancing global change research implies attention to internationalism, not least to ensure global coverage of essential data about the world, but also aligning with internationally agreed sustainability principles, policies and rights. Obtaining a broader and deeper understanding of the world requires interdisciplinarity, especially addressing the enduring intellectual challenge of bridging the natural and social sciences, which is often seen as a kind of Cartesian dualism. And rising on the research and policy agenda is the need to address the many interculturalisms, incorporating and respecting different worldviews in the (co)production and application of global change science. At the frontiers of knowledge, there will always be new divides to be bridged, so I will also reflect on if, when and how experience in these inters might become generalizable guidance for researchers finding themselves in the fray when it comes to understanding and responding to global changes.油