ABSTRACT
The objectives of this chapter are to summarize further problems with environmental science resulting from debates about language and social divisions. The chapter will:
introduce debates from Sociology of Scientific Knowledge concerning the role of framings and language in influencing how environmental information is collected and presented;
discuss the drawing of “boundaries”– between different social groups; scientists and “lay” people; or human and non-human objects – and their importance for the politics of environmental science; and
outline different approaches to acknowledge the influences of different social framings on the evolution of environmental knowledge and explanations, with implications for making current environmental science more transparent and representative of different social groups.
