ABSTRACT
This chapter will pick up on some themes from Roy Bhaskar’s previous chapter and discuss them in relation to the tasks of developing an adequate range of knowledge about climate change and developing effective interdisciplinary agendas. Our position is that knowledge for climate change, and for sustainable responses to it, must involve a wide disciplinary range from biophysical climate science, through to social science understanding of social structures, including the cultural and ethical aspects that frame and motivate human action. In this respect we situate this discussion within a global systems approach, expressed in Table 2.1 below.
