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Accepted Paper:

Making weather work: climate science, situated knowledge and coffee growers in South India  
Anshu Ogra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)

Paper short abstract:

Using the case study of monsoons and coffee growers in South India the work argues that climate change adaptation strategies need to integrate the predictive capacity of abstract numbers with non-linear speculation of economic and political markets that inform situated experience of rainfall.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper I discuss three different perspectives that attempt to explain a single weather event that occurs over a particular ecological-geographical patch. The weather event been looked at is the South-West monsoons and the defined ecological-geographical patch in focus is the coffee plantation belt that runs across a portion of the Western Ghats region in Southern India. The three different groups whose perspectives about monsoonal impacts in the tropical evergreen forests of the Western Ghats is being looked at are: a) coffee planters, b) climatologists and meteorologists and c) weather insurance assessors. The paper argues that in case of climate change adaptation strategies there is a need to integrate the natural sciences and the social sciences; meteorology and sociology; the predictive capacity of abstract numbers and the non-linear speculation of economic and political markets and finally why adaptation strategies must help us get the theory laden social world to negotiate with hypothetico-deductive reasoning for policy purposes. The field work was carried out over a period of 7 months from 2011 to 2015.

Panel P06
Interdisciplinary dialogues or monologues across the scientific worlds of climate change.
  Session 1