Interdisciplinaridade na questão climática : a participação das ciências sociais no Painel Intergovernamental de Mudanças Climáticas (IPCC)
Resumen
Our goal in this study is to analyze the production, formation and acting of the authorscoordinators
of the two most relevant chapters of the fifth report of the IPCC Working
Group II (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that deal with human
dimensions of climate change, and so discuss the contribution of social sciences around
this debate. The discussion of the thesis is placed within a framework of
interdisciplinary, in which demand for scientific cooperation between different areas
appears as a necessity imposed by environmental issues. Our hypothesis is that the fact
the interdisciplinary is happening, but when it occurs, that occurs in a hierarchical
fashion, where the strands of the social sciences participating in the debate, only do so
when they use the same parameters used by the ruling science in discussions climate
change. The research shows that the hypothesis is partially confirmed, but there is a
progressive tendency to incorporate the classic areas of social sciences, such as
anthropology, political science and sociology by the IPCC.