Description du projet
Examiner les pratiques, les politiques et les discours sur le climat mondial depuis l’espace
Comment percevons-nous le climat mondial? La réponse à cette question est très importante, étant donné que notre perception détermine nos actions et donc la manière dont nous gérons la crise climatique. Le projet CLIMASAT, financé par le CER, étudiera l’histoire des pratiques, des discours et des politiques sur le climat mondial dans les années 1980 et 1990. Ciblant la production, la circulation et l’utilisation des données générées par trois satellites en orbite autour de la Terre, le projet vérifiera l’hypothèse selon laquelle les manières dont les données satellitaires étaient collectivement négociées, partagées, conservées et utilisées par les scientifiques, les économistes, les législateurs, les diplomates et les médias ont permis de comprendre et de prendre des mesures en matière de climat mondial. Les conclusions offriront aux décideurs politiques et aux chercheurs un aperçu sans précédent sur l’influence des données satellitaires sur les perceptions actuelles du climat mondial.
Objectif
Answers to how to manage the urgent climate crisis depend on perceptions of global climate. Knowing how they came to be is necessary to open up new possibilities about ways to face it. CLIMASAT aims at establishing a truly comprehensive narrative that integrates various spheres of knowledge to understand how global climate discourses, policies and practices came into being in the approximate 1980s-2000s Europe.
To do so, CLIMASAT substantially places the production, circulation and use of data generated with Earth-orbiting satellites at the centre of historical analysis. Indeed, since the 1980s, much of our scientific, practical and political knowledge about global climate has been increasingly compiled with satellite data, in a process of constitutive co-production. Then processes of data production, circulation and use may have played a role in knowledge-making. CLIMASAT identifies 5 interrelated spheres of knowledge involved in satellite data production, circulation and use: science and technology, economy, regulation, communication, and diplomacy. It sets out the hypothesis that it was through their mutual intersections, as they materialised in processes of data production, circulation and use, that certain perceptions and actions about global climate were collectively negotiated, shared, maintained and used. It focuses the empirical analysis on 3 European satellite programs (Meteosat, Topex/Poseidon, ERS) that provided data on extreme weather events, sea level, and ozone. It demands an interdisciplinary methodology grounded on material and transnational history.
In times of growing public concern regarding our actions on the climate crisis, CLIMASAT delivers unparalleled information and critical analysis about how satellite data-informed perceptions of global climate were made, which is relevant not only for researchers in academia but also for policy-makers and engaged citizens.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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Régime de financement
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
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