Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has completed it's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Here, we explore the social scientific networks informing Working Group III (WGIII) assessment of mitigation for the AR5. Identifying authors' institutional pathways, we highlight the per...

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Autores: Corbera, Esteve, Calvet-Mir, Laura, Hughes, Hannah, Paterson, Matthew
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Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
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Palabra clave:climate-change mitigation
institutions
mitigación del cambio climático
instituciones
mitigació del canvi climàtic
institucions
Climate change mitigation
Canvis climàtics -- Mitigació
Cambios climáticos -- Mitigación
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spelling Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III reportCorbera, EsteveCalvet-Mir, Laura Hughes, HannahPaterson, Matthewclimate-change mitigationinstitutionsmitigación del cambio climáticoinstitucionesmitigació del canvi climàticinstitucionsClimate change mitigationCanvis climàtics -- MitigacióCambios climáticos -- MitigaciónThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has completed it's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Here, we explore the social scientific networks informing Working Group III (WGIII) assessment of mitigation for the AR5. Identifying authors' institutional pathways, we highlight the persistence and extent of North-South inequalities in the authorship of the report, revealing the dominance of US and UK institutions as training sites for WGIII authors. Examining patterns of co-authorship between WGIII authors, we identify the unevenness in co-authoring relations, with a small number of authors co-writing regularly and indicative of an epistemic community's influence over the IPCC's definition of mitigation. These co-authoring networks follow regional patterns, with significant EU-BRICS collaboration and authors from the US relatively insular. From a disciplinary perspective, economists, engineers, physicists and natural scientists remain central to the process, with insignificant participation of scholars from the humanities. The shared training and career paths made apparent through our analysis suggest that the idea that broader geographic participation may lead to a wider range of viewpoints and cultural understandings of climate change mitigation may not be as sound as previously thought.Nature Climate ChangeUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)Cardiff UniversityUniversity of OttawaUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)201920192015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10609/92918reponame:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOCinstname:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)InglésNature Climate Change, 2016, 6(1)https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2782CC BY-NC-NDhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/929182026-05-28T12:42:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
title Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
spellingShingle Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
Corbera, Esteve
climate-change mitigation
institutions
mitigación del cambio climático
instituciones
mitigació del canvi climàtic
institucions
Climate change mitigation
Canvis climàtics -- Mitigació
Cambios climáticos -- Mitigación
title_short Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
title_full Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
title_fullStr Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
title_full_unstemmed Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
title_sort Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Corbera, Esteve
Calvet-Mir, Laura
Hughes, Hannah
Paterson, Matthew
author Corbera, Esteve
author_facet Corbera, Esteve
Calvet-Mir, Laura
Hughes, Hannah
Paterson, Matthew
author_role author
author2 Calvet-Mir, Laura
Hughes, Hannah
Paterson, Matthew
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Cardiff University
University of Ottawa
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv climate-change mitigation
institutions
mitigación del cambio climático
instituciones
mitigació del canvi climàtic
institucions
Climate change mitigation
Canvis climàtics -- Mitigació
Cambios climáticos -- Mitigación
topic climate-change mitigation
institutions
mitigación del cambio climático
instituciones
mitigació del canvi climàtic
institucions
Climate change mitigation
Canvis climàtics -- Mitigació
Cambios climáticos -- Mitigación
description The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has completed it's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Here, we explore the social scientific networks informing Working Group III (WGIII) assessment of mitigation for the AR5. Identifying authors' institutional pathways, we highlight the persistence and extent of North-South inequalities in the authorship of the report, revealing the dominance of US and UK institutions as training sites for WGIII authors. Examining patterns of co-authorship between WGIII authors, we identify the unevenness in co-authoring relations, with a small number of authors co-writing regularly and indicative of an epistemic community's influence over the IPCC's definition of mitigation. These co-authoring networks follow regional patterns, with significant EU-BRICS collaboration and authors from the US relatively insular. From a disciplinary perspective, economists, engineers, physicists and natural scientists remain central to the process, with insignificant participation of scholars from the humanities. The shared training and career paths made apparent through our analysis suggest that the idea that broader geographic participation may lead to a wider range of viewpoints and cultural understandings of climate change mitigation may not be as sound as previously thought.
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