ABSTRACT
The avoidance of (not indifference to) employing social science methods and discourses in the study of climate change in general, and local climate change in particular (despite their apparent success in doing so in relation to environ- mental change and the abundance of accumulated knowledge in the fields of environmental politics, environmental sociology and environmental anthro- pology), is rather baffling. 1 A number of natural science-driven preoccupations have dominated the contribution of social sciences to global climate-change research: mitigation, adaptation, institutions and markets, and their infuences on group and individual attitudes, behaviors and responses. 2 At least three factors can explain why these contributions are natural-science driven.
