From Climate to Landscape is a new research project at the University of Exeter, funded by ESF, concerned with predicting the effects of climate change in Cornwall. Central to this work is understanding what climate change means to people, the potential desirability of these changes, as well as perceptions and imaginings of future climate change in relation to familiar habitats and landscapes that contribute to a sense of place.
The Geographical Element: Professor Catherine Brace and Dr Hilary Geoghegan at the University of Exeter are working to connect the envisioning of climate impacts on landscape to the development of environmental knowledge, an enhanced sense of personal responsibility and an emergent politics of restraint in which individual, group, community and government actions are renegotiated in the light of new understandings about climate change.
Interdisciplinary Angle: This is an interdisciplinary project. Catherine and Hilary are working with colleages in Biosciences and English at the University of Exeter (Cornwall) in order to approach the issue of climate change and landscape from a variety of perspectives, on the one hand predicting how species might adapt to climate change, and on the other how climate change is represented in popular discourse.
