Calculating the Climate

Leeds University Business School

David L. Levy, Professor of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, talks about the hegemony of models and experts in climate

<p>Climate adaptation is an effort to assess and manage the vulnerability of ecological, economic and social systems by estimating future climate risks and generating response strategies. This presentation reflects on a study of the organizational processes of adaptation in the high-risk coastal city of Boston, Massachusetts, and the political and economic implications. We describe how an assemblage of actors including municipal and state authorities, technical experts and consultants, and civil society organizations, generate risk constructs in particular ways that configure possible response strategies, with notable implications for equity and participation. We describe how adaptation processes are constituted of calculative practices - algorithms, instruments, models, market devices and experts - that are not neutral or objective, and that tend to privilege the interests of municipalities, property developers, and financial institutions, while marginalizing concerns of communities of color and low-income groups. These calculative practices are performative and political, and tend to render climate risks as manageable within technocratic frameworks, facilitating the continuation of 'business as usual'.   </p>

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