Human geographies of climate change: landscape, temporality and lay knowledges.

Brace, C. and Geoghegan, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-8626 (2011) Human geographies of climate change: landscape, temporality and lay knowledges. Progress in Human Geography, 35 (3). pp. 284-302. ISSN 0309-1325 doi: 10.1177/0309132510376259

Abstract/Summary

In this paper we bring together work on landscape, temporality and lay knowledges to propose new ways of understanding climate change. A focus on the familiar landscapes of everyday life offers an opportunity to examine how climate change could be researched as a relational phenomenon, understood on a local level, with distinctive spatialities and temporalities. Climate change can be observed in relation to landscape but also felt, sensed, apprehended emotionally as part of the fabric of everyday life in which acceptance, denial, resignation and action co-exist as personal and social responses to the local manifestations of a global problem.