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A Changing Arctic Climate: Science and Policy in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

2009; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4020-9542-9_4

2215-0110

Annika E. Nilsson,

Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Climate change has often been framed as a global issue but slow progress in the global negotiations and needs to plan for local adaptation have made it increasingly salient to also discuss other arenas for climate policy and knowledge production. This chapter analyzes the interplay between climate science and policy at the international regional level based on a study of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). The history and process of ACIA illustrate how the existence of a global climate assessment can delay a regional response and how the initiation of a circumpolar Arctic assessment of the impacts of climate change depended on interplay between global and regional regimes. Once the assessment process was in place, the regional arena brought new actors into climate knowledge production and policy with an increased emphasis on the complexity of social and cultural impacts of climate change among indigenous peoples. The results illustrate how the structure of international cooperation can influence knowledge production about climate change and highlight the political dimensions of focusing on particular spatial scales and governance levels in climate knowledge production and policy.