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Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change

Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change. Karl Georg Høyer Oslo University College Key-Note Lecture NORD-STAR Launch Norrköping. 25.05.2011. IPCC. A Claim:

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Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change

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  1. InterdisciplinarityandClimate Change Karl Georg Høyer Oslo University College Key-Note Lecture NORD-STAR Launch Norrköping. 25.05.2011

  2. IPCC • A Claim: • IPCC is the most comprehensive, counter-reductionist, and interdisciplinary scientific endeavour ever achieved; highly emphasised by its encompassing international structure and cooperation

  3. Key Concepts • To substantially differentiate between: • Multidisciplinarity • Interdisciplinarity

  4. Key Concepts • Mono-disciplinary • Cross-disciplinary • Multi-disciplinary • Inter-disciplinary • Trans-disciplinary • Post-disciplinary

  5. Key Features • Interdisciplinarity; • The singular disciplines are still there – both before and after • After: The researchers return to their respective disciplines • However, also after: These disciplines shall be challenged, enriched; dominating paradigmes, theories, models should be challenged

  6. Key Features • Interdisciplinarity implies: • To take the large steps between scientific disciplines, not only between the disciplines within one area of science • That is: to take the steps between social sciences, economics, natural sciences, technological sciences, humanities and art

  7. Key Features • To establish a multidisciplinary research team connected to a common research task or issue • To develop a common understanding of the task/issue (ontological homogeneity) • To uphold the disciplinary enrichment based on knowledge contributions from the various disciplines (epistemological and methodological heterogeneity)

  8. Key Features • The HolyThree UnityofInterdisciplinarity: • MetatheoreticalUnity • MethodologicalSpecificity • TheoreticalPluralism and Tolerance

  9. Key Features • Ontological Features; • Open Systems Research • Multiplicity and Interconnectivity of levels and causes • Counter-Reductionism • Epistemological Features; • Cross-disciplinary understanding and communication • Effective epistemic integration

  10. Interdisciplinary Climate Change • The DPSIR scheme; • Driving Forces (D) • Pressures (P) • States (S) • Impacts (I) • Responses (R) - A multitudeofcausalmechanisms, feedbacks, and levels, within and betweenthevarious DPSIR analyticalsteps (= Open Systems)

  11. Interdisciplinary Learning • Theoretical pluralism • Methodological pluralism • Both respect and humility (it might even be that the others from far-away disciplines might have something to contribute with) • Deconstructing stereotypes of «the others» • Deconstructing simplified understandings and interpretations of «the others» knowledge fields

  12. The End? • Interdisciplinary research is: No Herb Tea Party

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