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Title: | Communicating climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations: exploring communicative utopias in eight transdisciplinary case studies | Authors: | Ansari, Dawud Schönenberg, Regine Abud, Melissa Becerra, Laura Brahim, Wassim Castiblanco, Javier de la Vega-Leinert, Anne Cristina Dudley, Nigel Dunlop, Michael Figueroa, Carolina Guevara, Oscar Hauser, Philipp Hobbie, Hannes Hossain, Mostafa A.R. HUGE, Jean JANSSENS DE BISTHOVEN, Luc Keunen, Hilde Munera-Roldan, Claudia Petzold, Jan Rochette, Anne-Julie Schmidt, Matthew Schumann, Charlotte Sengupta, Sayanti Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne van Kerkhoff, Lorrae VANHOVE, Maarten Wyborn, Carina |
Issue Date: | 2023 | Publisher: | UCL Press | Source: | UCL Open Environment, 5 (11) (Art N° e064) | Abstract: | Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and to involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications with regard to climate change or biodiversity loss between project teams and local communities. We develop eight indicators of good stakeholder communication, reflecting the scope of Verran’s (2002) concept of postcolonial moments as a communicative utopia. We demonstrate that applying our indicators can enhance communication and enable community responses. However, we discover a divergence between timing, complexity and (introspective) effort. Three cases qualify for postcolonial moments, but scrutinising power relations and genuine knowledge co-production remain rare. While we verify the potency of various instruments for deconstructing science, their sophistication cannot substitute trust building and epistemic/transdisciplinary awareness. Lastly, we consider that reforming inadequate funding policies helps improving the work in and with local communities | Keywords: | transdisciplinary communication;climate change;biodiversity loss;knowledge co-production;postcolonial moments;local communities;local knowledge | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/42125 | ISSN: | 2632-0886 | DOI: | 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000064 | Rights: | 2023 The Authors. Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 International licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open access This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | Category: | A2 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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