18 al 23 de agosto de 2014
Con la presencia en Buenos Aires de Renzo Taddei de la Universidad Federal de San Pablo, Brasil, se realizaron una serie de actividades y reuniones de trabajo de la línea dedicada a dar cuenta del desarrollo de la red colaborativa de investigación, monitoreo y evolución de servicios climáticos en SESA
El martes 19 de agosto tuvo lugar una Jornada en la sede de la Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, SADAF, con centro en la puesta en común del trabajo realizado por las becarias María Inés Carabajal y Pamela Scanio, la discusión de actividades a escala regional, la articulación con las demás líneas de trabajo del equipo y el diseño de un taller sobre comunicación de información climática. El encuentro también contó con la participación de Adriana Basualdo y Nayme Gaggioli.
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| Adriana Basualdo, Cecilia Hidalgo, Pamela Scanio, María Inés Carabajal, Nayme Gaggioli y Renzo Taddei |
El miércoles 20 Renzo Taddei y Cecilia Hidalgo mantuvieron reuniones con Daniel Lema y Laura Gastaldi del INTA a fin de avanzar en la definición de una estrategia de relevamiento de percepción de riesgos en productores agropecuarios de la región pampeana. El viernes 22 en el SMN con Maru Skansi se dieron los primeros pasos para el diseño de un taller sobre comunicación de información climática.
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| Maru Skansi y Renzo Taddei |
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| Renzo Taddei, Laura Gastaldi y Daniel Lema |
Renzo Taddei y Cecilia Hidalgo participaron asimismo en el Congreso Internacional ESOCITE 4S con los trabajos que resumimos a continuación.
Forecasts and Controversies in the Ontogenesis of Climatic RealitiesRenzo Taddei, Federal University of São Paulo
Climate scientists often complain that forecasts are constantly subject to a variety of forms of political interference. Focusing on the performative dimensions of science communication, and using an analytical approach centered on the ontological dimensions of social action, this talk attempts to address the questions of what talking about the future in times of climate change is (and creates). In other words, political controversies and new communication technologies recreate the climate(s), while the multiple forms of representing and enacting the risks associated with climate recreate governance(s). In this perspective, climate forecasts /are/ forms of political interference, not (only) in the critical sense, but ontologically. What implications do these things have for the lives of collectivities, given that these processes of recreation occur inside of the cleavages of what Descola called "ontological regimes", or what Latour termed "modes of existence"? This talk is grounded in ethnographic research carried out among climate scientists and the so-called “rain prophets” and “rainmakers” of Brazil.
Provision of climate services and decision-making in southeastern South America: A case of science's social appropriation
Cecilia Hidalgo, FFyL, UBA, ArgentinaThe production of relevant and usable knowledge constitutes a challenge for scientists, bridging in a renewed way the gap between those concerned with society and those concerned with nature. The significant advances of contemporary climate science should expand further if a robust social appropriation of science is to inform public and private decision-making. The concept of "climate services" recently adopted by the World Meteorological Organization expresses a new perspective on socio-environmental systems and synthesizes the will to produce climate information and knowledge that matches the needs and expectations of different profiles of actors and climate-sensitive sectors. Climate information production is not enough to provide these services. Decision-making requires progress in the appropriation of science by society. Communication among scientists, decision-makers and stakeholders, translation of information into impacts and guidelines for action, exploration of innovative institutional forms become mandatory. After a brief review of discussions and initiatives around the importance of articulating social and environmental knowledge through the consideration of "human dimensions" in the characterization of global change, the article shows how collaboration between natural and social scientists has shifted into interactive and horizontal forms of research. In particular, these considerations are deployed in the characterization of the actions of a multinational, multidisciplinary, collaborative research network that includes stakeholders as peers in the project IAI CRN3035 on climate services.