I may misinterpret what you mean by the social construction of carbon,
but there are a number of articles out there, too, on people's
understanding of carbon, being carbon-savvy, etc etc.
Maybe these are useful?
Susi
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On 6/2/2011 12:15 PM, Myanna Lahsen wrote:
Ronnie,
Below are the summaries of two articles of mine that approach the
topic from a science studies perspective respectively focused on: (1)
divergent, geopolitically charged scientific interpretations of the
carbon cycle in the Brazilian Amazon and (2) processes of constructing
and interpreting global climate models.
Best,
Myanna
Myanna Lahsen
Associate Researcher
Earth System Science Center,
The Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Brazil
“*A science–policy interface in the global south: The politics of
carbon sinks and science in Brazil**,” **/Climatic Change/*/, /Vol.
97, Issue 3, 2009, p. 339 (DOI 10.1007/s10584-009-9610-6).
http://www.springerlink.com/content/9455584w05522267/
Focusing on the uptake of politically consequential scientific
arguments as to whether or not the Amazon is an overall carbon sink
(i.e. absorbs atmospheric carbon), the paper reveals important
divergences in interpretations on this issue among scientists at the
international level and within Brazil. European-led empirical research
in the Amazon initially showed the undisturbed Amazon to be a large
sink. European scientists participating in the LBA modified downwards
these earlier estimates, but they still tend to find the Amazon to be
a sink. American LBA scientists, by contrast, are inclined to be
skeptical of these findings. Brazilian scientists are divided between
the two views. Backed by prominent Brazilian scientists, however, the
Brazilian media have privileged scientific views and evidence
suggesting that the Amazon forest is a carbon sink. The paper presents
evidence of this pattern and shows that powerful Brazilian decision
makers, by contrast, have proven resistant to this “pro-sink”
argument. It concludes that decision makers’ resistance to this
particular scientific interpretation is supported by uncertainties
characterizing present understanding of the global carbon cycle but
that it also reflects features of national political culture, in
particular prominent, national-level understandings of the Amazon,
interpretations of Brazilian interests in international politics
related to human-induced climate change, and long-standing tendencies
in Brazilian environmental policy making. This case study thus serves
as a basis for more general conclusions about the importance of
national and regional political cultures in the absorption of
scientific information. It concludes that policy advances in the area
of global environmental problems at times depend less on additional
scientific research than on more thorough understanding of the
internal struggles and the cultural and political particularities that
characterize the interpretive frameworks, the struggles, and the
traditions of policy formation in countries and regions with leverage
in global environmental politics.
*“**Seductive simulations? Uncertainty distribution around climate
models**”*
Article published in */Social Studies of Science/* 35 (December 2005),
pp. 895-922.
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1891-2005.49.pdf>
This paper discusses the distribution of certainty around General
Circulation Models (GCMs) – computer models used to project possible
global climatic changes due to human emissions of greenhouse gases. It
calls for a multi-dimensional and dynamic conceptualization of how
uncertainty is distributed around this technology. Processes and
dynamics associated with GCM modeling challenge the common assumption
in science studies and beyond that producers of a given technology and
its products are the best judges of their accuracy. Drawing on
participant observation and interviews with climate modelers and the
atmospheric scientists with whom they interact, the study analyzers
the political dimensions of how modelers talk and think about their
models, suggesting that modelers sometimes are less able than some
users to identify shortcomings of their models.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:50 PM, David A. Sonnenfeld
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Ronnie & all,
There's also a new special issue of /Global Environmental Change/
out on the politics and policy of carbon capture & storage, see:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09593780
vol. 21, no. 2, March 2011
Kind regards,
David
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ronnie Lipschutz
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> Does anyone know of any work on the "social construction of
carbon?"
>
> Ronnie
>
> --
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>
> UC-Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
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[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>;
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<http://people.ucsc.edu/%7Erlipsch>
>
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corn for the
> remaining tenth and have been paid with husks and bidden to
thank god they
> had the husks.” ---David Lloyd George---
>
>
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