Storytelling for Resilience – Communicating Systemic Approaches to Climate Change

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Revell, Philip and Schonveld, Eva and Cross, Harriet and Knibb, Alanah (2020) Storytelling for Resilience – Communicating Systemic Approaches to Climate Change. Scottish Universities Insight Institute, Glasgow.

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Abstract

Climate change is an urgent issue, and a symptom of systems that are failing. These systems are driven by human actions – by researchers, decision-makers, practitioners, and the public – and those actions are connected to underlying goals and values. In other words, responses to climate change do not exist in a vacuum separate from social and cultural influences. From this perspective a positivist, information deficit approach to social change is insufficient. We must find ways to navigate this complexity in our climate change research and practice, and to understand and deliberately work with traditionally neglected social dimensions of change.

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