Physical and economic bias in climate change research: a scientometric study of IPCC Third Assessment Report

Climatic Change - Tập 108 Số 1 - Trang 1-22 - 2011
Bjurström, Andreas1, Polk, Merritt1
1Human Ecology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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This study demonstrates that IPCC Third Assessment Report is strongly dominated by Natural sciences, especially the Earth sciences. The Social sciences are dominated by Economics. The IPCC assessment also results in the separation of the Earth, Biological and Social sciences. The integration that occurs is mainly between closely related scientific fields. The research community consequently imposes a physical and economic bias and a separation of scientific fields that the IPCC reproduces in the policy sphere. It is argued that this physical and economic bias distorts a comprehensive understanding of climate change and that the weak integration of scientific fields hinders climate change from being fully addressed as an integral environmental and social problem. If climate change is to be understood, evaluated and responded to in its fullness, the IPCC must broaden its knowledge base and challenge the anthropocentric worldview that places humans outside of nature.

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