New science? Flashcards
Lecture 4
UN General Assembly 2015, 2030 agenda for sustainable development
Calls for a change in commmunication between science and policy
Climatic scientist problems?
- Complex (feedback loops)
- Messy (overlapping issues)
- Systematic (interconnectedness)
- Wicked (hard to judge problems, challenges and goals
- VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain,, complex and ambigeous)
What are the types of Displinary?
- Trans- (beyond disciplinaries, new bodies of knowledge)
- Inter- (between disciplinaries)
- Multi- (many disciplinary perspectives)
Inter-Disciplinary issues
- Different prespectives of “facts”
- Different ways of thinking
- Different ways of measuring data, methodogies
- Different funder expectations
- Different target outcomes
Climate science specific issues
- Hard to model and forecast
- Intergration of social factors
- Science does not offer politicians guidance
What is post modern science?
- Based upon the assumptions of unpredictablity, incomplete control and using multiple perspectives
- Used when facts are uncertain and stakes are high
Traditional (modern) science traits?
- Incremental
- Building on paradigm
- Objective
- Towards truth and certainity
- Emotion-neutral
- Non-expects excluded
Quick comparison of different science goals
- Applied science is mission orientated
- Professional consultancy is client serving
- Core-science is curosity driven
- Post-modern science is issue driven
Who saw nature as tamable and usable?
Bruno Latour, this is not a sustainable way of science
Common issue in science
Gate-kept by experts
What do applied and professional science have in common
- Results may be not in public knowledge, as “know-how”
- Influenced by their funders
Hard over soft facts?
Modern/core science
Soft over hard facts?
Post-modern science
Non-expect case study in Post modern science
A case of public involvement. Local civilians identified a pattern in the vague symptoms that cataogued a tick-borne disease
