Homework 5 Due: 15th May
- First part:
Next lecture, you are going to engage in the 2nd role-play. The question of that role-play is:”Considering the evolutionary potential in ecosystems and the related uncertainty, how should we decide on 2deg-related ecosystem management measures?“. The contributing roles are: natural scientist, social scientist, economist, and politician. Please prepare for the role-play as described below:
Please prepare for the role-play as described below :
- Define your role more concretely (e.g. science journalists vs. tabloid journalists) and prepare a sign stating your definition. Bring this to the role-play.
- Prepare the arguments for your role in the role-play regarding the question (make sure to understand your role’s position to the question, institutional settings and so on…) in your role-group.
- Decide upon the tasks: main speaker (stating main points,…). Keep in mind that all of you should contribute to the discussion and also take notes.
- Go through the ‘Guidelines for discussions’.
If you run into any problems, please contact Maike Scheffold (maike.scheffold@uni-hamburg.de) by 12th May.
- Second part:
For the lecture on “Uncertainty and Society” next week please prepare the following text:
Shackley, S.; Wynne, B. (1996): Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority. In: Science, Technology & Human Values 21 (3), S. 275–302. DOI: 10.1177/016224399602100302. (uploaded on STINE)
Please take notes from your reading and bring them to class next week. A guiding question is in how far the “boundary-ordering devices” that the authors studied in the 1990s to this day structure the communication between science and policy in the climate case.
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