Knowledge and communication

Knowledge and expertise represent integral parts of contemporary climate politics and policy-making. At the CSPR we study how climate related knowledge and expertise is produced, negotiated and represented for local, national and international decision-making. Rather than approaching knowledge-making as a neutral activity that simply mirrors the physical climate, our research is attentive to the underlying ideas, meanings and visibilities that are produced at the intersection of climate science and lay knowledge. Platforms for climate visualization and tools for participation represent practical outputs of our research.

Ongoing Projects

• Competitively strengthened agriculture communication about climate change and new possibilities
• Earth System Governmentality: A Critical Agenda for Global Environmental Change Research
• Linköping University Climate Engineering Programme (LUCE)
• Making sense of climate change: A study of the formation and maintenance of social representation
• Nordic Strategic Adaptation Research (NORD-STAR)
• Visualisation of the effects of climate change in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltVision)

Finalized Projects

• Making sense of climate change: A study of the formation and maintenance of social representation
  Project Leader: Victoria Wibeck
• ENGO (Assessment of Environmental Goal Achievement Under Uncertainty)
  Project leader: Victoria Wibeck
• Do European consumers buy GM food? (CONSUMERCHOICE)
  Project leader: Victoria Wibeck
• Who gets what, how and when? The biography of historical responsibility and emissions trade in climate policy
  Project leader: Björn-Ola Linnér and Merle Jacob
• Democratising Scientific Expertise in Practice. Learning fron Climate Policy Descisions and Research Practice in the EU
  Project leaders: Eva Löwbrand and Roger Pielke Jr.
• Worldview: Visualizing climate change