The Lived Experience of Climate Change: Knowledge, Science and Public Action

by Gordon Wilson and Dina Abbott

Book Overview

This book explores the idea that daily lived experiences of climate change are a crucial missing link in our knowledge that contrasts with scientific understandings of this global problem. It argues that both kinds of knowledge are limiting: the sciences by their disciplines and lived experiences by the boundaries of everyday lives. Therefore each group needs to engage the other in order to enrich and expand understanding of climate change and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319362275
• ISBN13: 9783319362274
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"