Werner Krauss

Universität Bremen | Uni Bremen · artec Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit

This article addresses the appropriate place for and design of climate services drawing upon a case study of three different forms of climate service delivery in a coastal landscape in Northern Germany. Each of these forms addresses different audiences and provides different types of knowledge about climate change and a different orientation toward...

Während Klimaforschung lange als rein naturwissenschaftliches Unterfangen galt, wird sie zunehmend auch in den Sozialwissenschaften betrieben. Die Popularisierung in und außerhalb der Wissenschaft hat dabei nicht nur zu neuen Problembezügen geführt, sondern auch eine wachsende Unübersichtlichkeit produziert: Es ist ein Bedarf entstanden, disziplinä...

Through the efforts shared in this chapter, we embrace the hypothesis that local representations of our changing climate offer a key angle for facing climate change. We describe the coconstruction processes of climate services in five sites across Europe: Bergen (Norway), Brest, Kerourien (France), Dordrecht (the Netherlands), Gulf of Morbihan (Fra...

Während Klimaforschung lange als rein naturwissenschaftliches Unterfangen galt, wird sie zunehmend auch in den Sozialwissenschaften betrieben. Die Popularisierung in und außerhalb der Wissenschaft hat dabei nicht nur zu neuen Problembezügen geführt, sondern auch eine wachsende Unübersichtlichkeit produziert: Es ist ein Bedarf entstanden, disziplinä...

In this article, I explore the atmosphere of Dangast, a coastal village located at the Jadebusen, a huge bay at the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony. To write about atmospheres means evoking a specific forcefield, which is different from observing and analyzing an object from a distance. In the first part, I write about my own experience of the coas...

Rooted in the main CoCLiServ purpose -community dialogue with climate services in order for them to be more meaningful in a place- the modes of representation are rooted in the 5 CoCliServ sites. From the very beginning of the CoCliServ project to its end in June 2021, the partners saw the progressive stabilization of the 3 main modes of representa...

The purpose of this document is • To provide an overview over the results of Work Package 1, Narratives of change; • To critically discuss the role of narratives in the production of place-based climate services for action; • To document the lessons learned from the five case-studies; • To inform the consortium and the respective site organizers fr...

We conducted 5 locally-based Arts and Sciences processes, working closely with local stakeholders, artists, scientists and inhabitants in order to propose for each site a conjoint art–science analysis through shared engagement in the interpretation and representations of the various steps conducted within WPs 1, 2 and 3. We present here the theoret...

Meat is stupid’ was my favourite protest sign at a Fridays for Future demonstration in April 2019, in Lower Saxony in the north of Germany. In retrospect, the slogan anticipated the outbreak of the Covid‐19 virus among the work- ers in the regional slaughterhouses the following year. Covid‐19 also interrupted my research about co‐developing local c...

We developed, tested and refined a novel incremental participatory scenario approach. This method allows for the development of normative scenarios, pathways that lead to desirable futures, with local communities, through a non-linear approach. Developments in the real world rarely follow straightforward linear paths. The approach inventories ‘hing...

Climate change is dramatically shifting the way cities interpret and live with their local climate. This paper analyses how climate change is emerging as a matter of concern in the public spheres of Bergen, and interprets how this concern is effecting Bergen’s identity, with implications for the city’s climate risk governance. Historically, Bergen...

We conducted case studies using a novel incremental scenario approach. With local actors, we co-developed visions of desirable futures, normative scenarios that might lead towards those futures, and inventoried ‘hinge points’: critical moments in time where things might lead to a better or worse future. To bridge the latter, specific information or...

In this introduction, we situate the topic of this Special Issue on ‘narratives of change’ in the scholarly literature about how we inform climate risk governance, including through climate services. We argue that many places experience a persistent mismatch between predominantly science-based and technical framings of climatic risk, and the place-...

After the Paris Agreement, the transition towards a carbon free society necessitates new forms of collaboration between climate science and society. In my article, I argue that the increasing participation of disciplines from the humanities represent a cultural turn in climate risk governance. At the example of my anthropological case study at the...

How can scientific climate knowledge be transformed into locally meaningful knowledge? CoCliServ explores new ways in climate communication and shifts the focus on narratives in order to co-develop new forms of climate services for action. Narratives of change provide local knowledge, they facilitate decision-making, and they help identifying infor...

We explored different issues and trends at play in the case study areas that might be relevant for designing local scenarios. Particularly, we examined both climate-related and non-climate related aspects, and aspects that the local community has considerable influence on as well as those that are largely beyond their control. These different aspec...

Vor der Französischen Revolution ging an alle Gemeinden, Dörfer und Städte in Frankreich ein Fragebogen, in den sie eintragen konnten, unter welchen Bedingungen sie lebten, welche Steuern sie zu zahlen hatten und was sie dringend brauchten. Die Liste der Beschwerden war lang und eindrücklich, schließlich litt man unter der Willkür des Adels, es gab...

Alpine landscapes with their melting glaciers and loss of biodiversity represent the epoch of the Anthropocene. In this article, the Anthropocene is understood as a concept that shifts the focus on landscapes as assemblages of entangled human, geological, biological, and meteorological actors that enables a new form of telling stories about human–e...

Die Klimawissenschaften erbrachten nicht nur den Nachweis, dass der Klimawandel von Menschen verursacht ist, sondern sie prägten zugleich auch die Vorstellung von Klima und wie mit dieser Herausforderung umzugehen sei. Ihre zentrale Stellung in der globalen Klimapolitik führte zu einer Politisierung der Klimawissenschaften und setzte einen Reflekti...

Grüne Politik ist heute längst in der Mitte der Gesellschaft angekommen. Doch wie ist es dazu gekommen, wo liegen die Ursprünge und die Ursachen für diesen rasanten Aufstieg, der längst auch die großen Parteien erfasst hat? Für den Soziologen Andreas Pettenkofer handelt es sich dabei um eine unwahrscheinliche Entwicklung, die weder mit Theorien rat...

There is more at stake in the Anthropocene than a simple addition of natural sciences and those concerned with the anthropos. It is not sufficient to identify planetary boundaries, tipping points and limits of growth from a scientific perspective in order to successfully implement sustainable development or effective climate politics. We have to ta...

A cultural appraisal of climate and its changes is more than only adding social sciences and humanities to climate research; it fundamentally changes the concept of climate change and, as a consequence, the nature of climate politics.

Auch wenn es noch exotisch anmutet, werden in Zukunft vermehrt auch Ethnologen gebraucht, um Klimawissen und dessen Bedeutung für die Gesellschaft zu analysieren.

To observe art and science in interaction offered a great opportunity for me as cultural anthropologist to learn about the production of climate knowledge. Like ethnographers, artists entered the world of science, observed climate scientists and participated in their daily routines. They dissected elements of the scientific process and focused on s...

This chapter is about the recent development of wind energy in three European countries, France, Germany and Portugal, investigated through landscape issues. Its objective is to provide information about the role of institutions and landscape practices in the management of energy transition.‘Energy landscapes’ are understood here as landscapes with...

Climate change, melting glaciers, and vanishing Arctic ice will lead to rising sea levels and endanger our future heritage, be it cultural or natural. This is the apocalyptic scenario the world faces today, based on scientific models and popularized by the media. But can heritage and climate really be imagined as separate from each other? In this c...

Decision support for impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability is expanding from science-driven linear methods to a wide range of methods drawing from many disciplines (robust evidence, high agreement). This chapter introduces new material from disciplines including behavioral science, ethics, and cultural and organizational theory, thus providing a b...

Decision support for impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability is expanding from science-driven linear methods to a wide range of methods drawing from many disciplines (robust evidence, high agreement). This chapter introduces new material from disciplines including behavioral science, ethics, and cultural and organizational theory, thus providing a b...

La réalité d'un changement climatique d'origine anthropique, de plus en plus admise, et les limites des modèles énergétiques fortement carbonés conduisent de nombreux pays à mettre en oeuvre de nouvelles politiques de l'énergie, par exemple fondées sur l'éolien. Nous analysons le déploiement de l'énergie éolienne dans trois pays européens, la Franc...

Recent surveys show that the communication about climate change between science and the public is severely disturbed. In this article we discuss this problem in focusing on both regional climate services and other, local forms of knowledge. The authors suggest that climate science and its public services have to critically revise their own practice...

This special symposium grew out of a workshop held in Hamburg in 2011 (Krauss and von Storch 2012) and of a long-term interest in climate research as post-normal science. A decade earlier, Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch (1999) stated that the management of uncertainty and its extension into the political and social realm make climate science a cas...

Postnormal Science: The Case of Climate Research; Hamburg, Germany, 4-6 May 2011 Climate research has left the narrow confines of pure science and has entered the public arena. At a workshop organized by Helmholtz Research Centre Geesthacht and the KlimaCampus, University of Hamburg, experts from the cultural, social, and natural sciences discussed...

[energy, energopolitics, wind power, wind energy, anthropology of energy, renewable energy source]

In this article, we discuss the advisory capacity of climate science for political and societal decisions. To provide options, open up perspectives and enhance the understanding for the dynamics of climate is a task we name climate service. After a general discussion, experiences of providing this service on a regional and local scale – Northern Ge...

Debido al reconocimiento generalizado de la realidad del calentamiento global, cada vez hay más países inmersos en el proceso de introducir energías alternativas, como la energía eólica. En este artículo nos centramos en la transformación del espacio que se ha producido como consecuencia de estas nuevas políticas energéticas. Los paisajes constituy...

Science has successfully established the discussion of climate change in the global arena. Following the Copenhagen crisis in climate policy, attention needs to be shifted from global goals to societally relevant, local and pragmatic countermeasures.

Germany has assumed a leading position in the global wind energy market, with its coastal districts of North Frisia and Dithmarschen as two outstanding locations. These coastal landscapes are the outcome of interaction between human and non-human forces throughout the centuries, and they are characterized by the wind, the tides and the sea as well...

Dieser Aufsatz skizziert aus ethnologischer Sicht die Zweideutigkeit der Europäisierung, und zwar am Beispiel Portugals: Europäisierung im Sinne von Portugals Annäherung an und Integration in Europa, aber auch Europäisierung im Sinne von Portugals Einfluss auf Europa. Die Agrarpolitik und insbesondere die in Portugal beobachtbare Schaffung von durc...

Local protest against the establishment of conservation zones is a worldwide phenomenon. Environmental protests focus not only on pollution and protection, but tend with almost magnetic force to centre around more abstract concepts such as identity, power, and development issues. Using as a case study a nature park in the South of Portugal, I trace...

Labore und Messapparate, Mikroben und Moleküle, technische Artefakte und nichtmenschliche Akteure, in Bruno Latours Welt hat alles einen Platz. Latour entwirft eine Gesellschaftstheorie, die um die Welt der Dinge erweitert ist. Entgegen den Versprechungen und Hoffnungen der Aufklärung verlassen wissenschaftliche Tatsachen die Labore heute nicht meh...

Labore und Messapparate, Mikroben und Moleküle, technische Artefakte und nichtmenschliche Akteure, in Bruno Latours Welt hat alles einen Platz. Latour entwirrt eine Gesellschaftstheorie, die um die Welt der Dinge erweitert ist. Entgegen den Versprechungen und Hoffnungen der Aufklärung verlassen wissenschaftliche Tatsachen die Labore heute nicht meh...

This article argues for an approach to environmental and heritage studies beyond a conceptual divide between nature and culture. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the case of the ongoing debate about the nomination of the Wadden Sea as a UNESCO Heritage Site gives insight into the complexity of attitudes towards the area in question, of widely diffe...

National Parks are intensively researched regions for various reasons: There is a great demand on the part of the administration for knowledge as to what is actually being protected, and in an era of widely-heralded climate change and environmental crisis these areas serve as laboratories for scientific research. These scientific activities do not,...

Vor dem Hintergrund grundlegender Wandlungen, die auf Globalisierungsprozesse und Entgrenzungseffekte zurückzuführen sind, widmet sich dieser Tagungsband mit Neuinterpretationen der Kategorie Raum aus verschiedenen fachwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven. Begriffe wie Stadt, Wirtschaftsraum, Metropolregion, Freizeit- und Naturraum kennzeichnen alltägli...

Vor dem Hintergrund grundlegender Wandlungen, die auf Globalisierungsprozesse und Entgrenzungseffekte zurückzuführen sind, widmet sich dieser Tagungsband mit Neuinterpretationen der Kategorie Raum aus verschiedenen fachwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven. Begriffe wie Stadt, Wirtschaftsraum, Metropolregion, Freizeit- und Naturraum kennzeichnen alltägli...

Gegenstand dieser Arbeit sind die Arbeiten zweier verschiedener, gleichwohl verwandter Disziplinen zum gleichen Untersuchungsgebiet - der Schweizer Volkskunde und der amerikanischen "cultural anthropology" zum Schweizer Alpenraum.