Article ID: CBB087611495

Adaptive Epistemologies: Conceptualizing Adaptation to Climate Change in Environmental Science (March 2021)

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This article explores how scientists adapt to a changing climate. To do this, we bring examples from a case study of salmon habitat restorationists in the Columbia River Basin into conversation with concepts from previous work on change and stability in knowledge infrastructures and scientific practice. In order to adapt, ecological restorationists are increasingly relying on predictive modeling tools, as well as initiating broader changes in the interdisciplinary nature of the field of ecological restoration itself. We explore how the field of ecological restoration is shifting its conceptual gaze from restoring to past, historic baselines to anticipating a no-analog future and consider what this means in terms of understanding the adaptive capacity of knowledge infrastructures and epistemic communities more broadly. We argue that identifying how scientists themselves conceptualize drivers of change and respond to these changes is an important step in understanding what adaptive capacity in science might entail. We offer these examples as a provocation for thinking about “adaptive epistemologies” and how adaptation by scientists themselves can facilitate or hinder particular environmental or sociotechnical futures.

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Authors & Contributors
Jeon, June
Havlick, David G.
Holdren, John P.
Christine Biermann
Sampsa Saikkonen
Follis, Karolina
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Environmental sciences
Climate change
Restoration ecology
Sociotechnical systems
Scientists
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Columbia River
Canada
Colorado (U.S.)
Institutions
International Council for Science
Future Earth. Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network
Yellowstone National Park
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
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