Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences

Petra Tschakert; Jon Barnett; Neville Ellis; Carmen Lawrence; Nancy Tuana; Mark New; Carmen Elrick-Barr; Ram Pandit; David Pannell

doi:10.1002/wcc.476

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Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences

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Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences

Petra Tschakert, Jon Barnett, Neville Ellis, Carmen Lawrence, Nancy Tuana, Mark New, Carmen Elrick-Barr, Ram Pandit and David Pannell

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Vol.8(5), pp.1-19

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.476

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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is seeking to prepare for losses arising from climate change. This is an emerging issue that challenges climate science and policy to engage more deeply with values, places, and people's experiences. We first provide insight into the UNFCCC framing of loss and damage and current approaches to valuation. We then draw on the growing literature on value- and place-based approaches to adaptation, including limits to adaptation, which examines loss as nuanced and sensitive to the nature of people's lives. Complementary perspectives from human geography, psychology, philosophy, economics, and ecology underscore the importance of understanding what matters to people and what they may likely consider to constitute loss. A significant body of knowledge illustrates that loss is often given meaning through lived, embodied, and place-based experiences, and so is more felt than tangible. We end with insights into recent scholarship that addresses how people make trade-offs between different value priorities. This emerging literature offers an opening in the academic debate to further advance a relational framing of loss in which trade-offs between lived values are seen as dynamic elements in a prospective loss space.

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Title: Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences
Authors: Petra Tschakert (Corresponding Author) - University of Western Australia
Jon Barnett (Author) - University of Melbourne
Neville Ellis (Author) - University of Western Australia
Carmen Lawrence (Author) - University of Western Australia
Nancy Tuana (Author) - Pennsylvania State University, United States
Mark New (Author) - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Carmen Elrick-Barr (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Ram Pandit (Author) - University of Western Australia
David Pannell (Author) - University of Western Australia
Publication details: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Vol.8(5), pp.1-19
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.476
ISSN: 1757-7799
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451014402621
Output Type: Journal article

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