Climate change and biodiversity: a need for âreflexive interdisciplinarityâ

A. Blanchard

Climate change and biodiversity: a need for âreflexive interdisciplinarityâ

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A. Blanchard University of Bergen, Norway, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, Allegaten, 34 â Postboks 7805, 5020 Bergen, Norway; anne.blanchard@svt.uib.no

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867530_0059

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Climate change is today perceived as one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services. This is an important concern for current society, as the deterioration of biodiversity will have dire implications for agriculture and the provision of food. At the same time, we see many conventional agricultural practices (i.e. deforestation and monoculture) serve to exert their own stresses on biodiversity, while also compounding the issue of climate change. In this context, an increasing number of scientific research projects are being funded to further understand the complex interrelations between climate and biodiversity, and support societyâs collective decision-making on this issue. Faced with the complexity and uncertainty inherent to climate change, this paper begins from an assertion that interdisciplinary science, bringing together scientists working within the fields of biodiversity, climate and agriculture, is key to generate socially-relevant knowledge, and presents thus one component of societyâs response to this issue. On this basis, the paper introduces the idea of âreflexive interdisciplinarityâ as one way for better nesting science in society. Nesting science in society is a long-term, dialogic, reflexive and evolving process. Hence, the results presented here only represent the first steps of this process, that was initiated in 2010 through participatory action research within the interdisciplinary âHUMBOLDTâ project; funded by the French âScientific Consortium for Climate, Environment and Societyâ, and exploring the relationship between climate change and biodiversity in the Alps. In the HUMBOLDT project, reflexive interdisciplinarity was given expression through âreflexive toolsâ. In presenting its findings, the paper argues that attitudes of reflexivity were important in helping scientists to conceptualise their place in a wider scientific community, and in turn, how this community is nested in society. By recognising the normative and political nature of their research, reflexive interdisciplinarity improved scientistsâ ability to engage in the negotiations that constitute the science-policy interface for climate change.

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Climate change and sustainable development

Ethical perspectives on land use and food production

ISBN:: 9789086867530

Verleger:: Wageningen Academic

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 15 Nov 2012

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