Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)
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Is Bergen Unseasonal? on Europe's Shifting Relation to Seasons
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article reflects on whether and how European communities’ cultural frameworks of seasons are coming to poorly correspond to the climatic conditions they experience, and the implications for how Europe adapts to climatic ... -
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)There is a growing literature on the cultural capacities influencing communities’ adaptation to environmental and social change, including the temporal frameworks they draw on for timely action. This paper focuses on ... -
Problematizing post-normal science in the Global South
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In post-normal science (PNS), the emergence of extended peer communities (EPCs) is a key process to deal with problems involving high uncertainty, high stakes, disputed values, and urgent decisions. However, the challenges ... -
Sustainability of the community model of avocado production in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Michoacán, México
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The avocado is a commodity crop that has generated severe environmental and social impacts in Michoacán, the world’s leading producer. Current studies overlook the diversity of avocado production by focusing on Michocán’s ... -
“Maybe you need to do something about it”: challenges in global environmental change research with and within local communities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Research on issues such as adapting to rapid environmental change should include indigenous and local people in developing more robust and inclusive diagnoses and responses. Various studies indicate that such projects may ... -
The role of frames in shaping the representation of local knowledge and concerns in scientific texts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Research teams working with indigenous people or local communities in the field of global environmental change represent local knowledge and concerns related to climate or environmental issues in the resulting scientific ... -
Researchers’ perceptions of their collaboration with indigenous and local people in environmental change research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Seeking to develop more robust diagnoses and responses to complex societal challenges, researchers increasingly involve non-academic actors in collaborative projects. The associated challenges can have major consequences ... -
Extended peer communities: Creating good and fair knowledges
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This conceptual paper reconstructs an implicit ethical claim of post-normal science, namely that knowledge produced in extended peer communities (EPCs) is both epistemically better and fairer. Post-normal science introduced ... -
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article assesses Frank I. Michelman’s constitution-centered and proceduralist interpretation of Rawls’ conception of political legitimacy and argues that it merits attention because it highlights the institutional ... -
Thinking with the primstav today
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Discrepancy Measures for Global Sensitivity Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While sensitivity analysis improves the transparency and reliability of mathematical models, its uptake by modelers is still scarce. This is partially explained by its technical requirements, which may be hard to understand ... -
East in the West: Europeans rethinking RRI with the help of Daoist Philosophy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper answers a call from Chinese scholars to ‘humanize Responsible Research and Innovation’; namely, to recentre the framing and practice of RRI around individuals. To do so, RRI scholars and practitioners working ... -
Bring digital twins back to Earth
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment ... -
Mathematical models: a state of exception
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Models live in a state of exception. Their versatility, the variety of their methods, the impossibility of their falsification and their epistemic authority allow mathematical models to escape, better than other cases of ... -
An annotated timeline of sensitivity analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The last half a century has seen spectacular progresses in computing and modelling in a variety of fields, applications, and methodologies. Over the same period, a cross-disciplinary field known as sensitivity analysis has ... -
The idea of a theory of values and the metaphor of value-landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This is a conceptual and methodological paper about improving our notion of human values. While it is recognized that talk of values has become increasingly popular in many walks of life, it is claimed that this is not ... -
Co-ordinating agricultural adaptation: Seasonal forecasts and their influence on rural agricultural rhythms in Ethiopia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Seasonal forecasts are fast being popularised as a key tool in the enablement of seasonal climate adaptation, particularly in agricultural practice. Derived from advances in meteorological science and technology, a seasonal ... -
The pandemic state of exception: restrictions, subjectivities, and authority
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The pandemic and all of its restrictions dominated public attention and social practices for almost three years. There was declared a state of exception in many national contexts during the pandemic. A revolution took place ... -
The multi-dimensionality of value landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Post-normal science (PNS) is arguably an extension of the framing of knowledge production and use which includes the close linkage of facts and values. The paper argues that PNS is an fundamentally ethical perspective on ... -
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article uses the Resilient Community Development frame to explore how the residents from two coastal settlements in the Russian Arctic cope with the long-term effects of climate change, permafrost thaw and challenging ...
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