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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"climate knowledge"”.
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Contesting transdisciplinary climate knowledge: a decolonial perspective on the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia
… propagated transdisciplinary approaches in knowledge production. These new modes of knowledge production seek to deconstruct universalist principles and epistemic authorities from positivist research approaches. The potential of replicating existing power dynamics into these …
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Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world: Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This thesis interrogates what it means for expert climate knowledge holders to take responsibility for what they know in a warming world. ‘Responsibility’ in the context of climate change is often invoked around historical responsibility for emissions and cause-effect relations. However, conceptual …
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The effect of organization centralization, organization climate, knowledge management and supply chain integration perception on the success of product launch in the U.S. automotive industry
… of organization centralization, organizational climate, knowledge management, and supply chain integration perception on the success and effectiveness of a product launch. The survey samples consisted of 101 respondents from automotive companies. Organization centralization perception, where …
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Kaleidoscopic Law: A Legal Ecology of the Climate Crisis
… investigates the sociomaterial co-production of climate law by urban coalitions under transnational climate knowledge networks (TCKNs) in transnational and European multilevel climate governance. I argue that European “leading cities” and TCKNs co-assemble an experimentalist legal order nominally …
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Assessing the impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on smallholder farming in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… facing all categories of farmers globally is climate change. African smallholder farmers are the most vulnerable to changes in climate. In most parts of South Africa, empirical evidence indicates the level to which climate change has impacted negatively on agricultural production. Rising …
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Climate variability in social-ecological systems of the Southern Cape: integrating farming and fishing perspectives
Large scale shifts playing out on global climate levels are manifesting locally in the South Africa’s terrestrial and marine ecosystems, where it is difficult to predict how different habitats may respond to these changes in natural systems, particularly at local levels. For example, the highly …