Tenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

Climate change is taken as a new site of scientific inquiry across the disciplines in the backdrop of the global discourses of the human crisis. Because of unpredictability, it not only became a theoretical puzzle, but also a heavy burden on the scientific communities. With the agenda of interdisciplinary research, the very idea of climate change was posited before the scientific community differently. Climate change-induced uncertainties manifested in a manifold and their implications on human society, livelihood, and ecosystem have increasingly become the objects of analysis for the scientific community. They have also encountered the problem of specificities while looking at the events of uncertainties in context. This paper discusses such events on the lives of people and their ecosystem driven by climate change and explores how they became an object of scientific inquiry. With the ideas of political ecology, the domain of scientific practices is transformed into an arena of co-production of knowledge in which place, social context and agencies become central. Moreover, it explores how the scientific community carried out an interdisciplinary field investigation and deliberations to account the climate change affected areas with the participation of local people in the Ladakh Himalayas.