This book explores the idea that daily lived experiences of climate change are a crucial
missing link in our knowledge that contrasts with scientific understandings of this global
problem. It argues that both kinds of knowledge are limiting: the sciences by their disciplines
and lived experiences by the boundaries of everyday lives. Therefore each group needs to engage
the other in order to enrich and expand understanding of climate change and what to do about
it.Complemented by a rich collection of examples and case studies this book proposes a novel
way of generating and analysing knowledge about climate change and how it may be used. The
reader is introduced to new insights where the book:- Provides a framework that explains the
variety of simultaneous co-existing and often contradictory perspectives on climate change.-
Reclaims everyday experiential knowledge as crucial for meeting global challenges such as
climate change.- Overcomes the science-citizen dichotomy and leads to new ways of examining
public engagement with science. Scientists are also human beings with lived experiences that
filter their scientific findings into knowledge and actions.- Develops a 'public action theory
of knowledge' as a tool for exploring how decisions on climate policy and intervention are
reached and enacted.While scientists (physical and social) seek to explain climate change and
its impacts millions of people throughout the world experience it personally in their daily
lives. The experience might be bad as during extreme weather engender hostility when
governments attempt mitigation and sometimes it is benign. This book seeks to understand the
complex often contradictory knowledge dynamics that inform the climate change debate and is
written clearly for a broad audience including lecturers students practitioners and activists
indeed anyone who wishes to gain further insight into this far-reaching issue.
