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

P. Tschakert; J. Barnett; N. Ellis; C. Lawrence; N. Tuana; M. New; C. Elrick-Barr; R. Pandit; D. 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

P. Tschakert, J. Barnett, N. Ellis, C. Lawrence, N. Tuana, M. New, C. Elrick-Barr, R. Pandit and D. Pannell

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Vol.8(5)

2017

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

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Abstract

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. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Title: Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences
Authors/Creators: P. Tschakert (Author/Creator) - The University of Western Australia
J. Barnett (Author/Creator)
N. Ellis (Author/Creator) - The University of Western Australia
C. Lawrence (Author/Creator) - The University of Western Australia
N. Tuana (Author/Creator) - Department of PhilosophyPennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkPAUSA
M. New (Author/Creator) - University of Cape Town
C. Elrick-Barr (Author/Creator) - University of the Sunshine Coast
R. Pandit (Author/Creator) - The University of Western Australia
D. Pannell (Author/Creator) - The University of Western Australia
Publication Details: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Vol.8(5)
Publisher: Wiley
Identifiers: 991005543762007891
Copyright: © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Murdoch Affiliation: Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration; International collaboration
Citation topics: 6 Social Sciences; 6.153 Climate Change; 6.153.558 Climate Change Adaptation
Web Of Science research areas: Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
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