SODAS Climate
- An interdisciplinary research collaboration that will use techniques and methods from social data science to answer questions regarding the green transition
SODAS Climate responds to the major and on-going climatic changes and ecological challenges by using social science tools in new ways, building on advanced techniques for analyzing big and broad digital data. Doing so allows for original scientific developments as well as informing decisions on all levels of society.
SODAS Climate embeds existing and emerging climate and green transition research hosted at SODAS and acts as a platform for exploring novel joint research endeavors with other researchers in and beyond the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), as well as among societal stakeholders.
The research at SODAS Climate is interdisciplinary in its core. The interdisciplinary nature of the research encompasses several new possibilities for better understanding and explaining core social mechanisms that hinder or facilitate the green transition. The table below suggests an initial concept of how novel digital data formats can address key questions of networks, ideas, and behavior in the green transition, at scales ranging from the local to the transnational level.
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Concept / scale |
Local |
National |
Transnational |
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Networks |
community-based networks (e.g. spread of pro-climate ideas) practice-based networks (e.g. food collectives) |
partnerships (e.g. on agriculture) green civil society (e.g. NGO scenes) |
inter-city networks (e.g. C40) epistemic networks (e.g. IPCC) climate justice movement networks |
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Ideas |
climate opinions and perceptions municipal climate plans and visions local climate experiments |
climate policy debates (frames, ideologies) socio-technical imaginaries (of low-carbon futures) climate and the media |
North-South inequalities international climate image diplomacy mitigation / adaptation frames (e.g. resilience) |
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Behaviours |
adoption of low-carbon (consumption) practices climate-relevant mobility shifts local adaptation preparedness |
policy influences on pro-environmental/-climate behaviour impact of carbon taxation on market development
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international flight travel patterns impact of climatic variations on socially patterned perceptions and practices |
SODAS Climate is one of several climate-related research projects at the Faculty of Social Sciences. If you want to discover other initiatives, you can find them on the Centre for Sustainability and Society's website.
Researchers
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen | Associate Professor | +4535324417 | |
| Clara Johan E Vandeweerdt | Assistant Professor - Tenure Track | +4535332076 | |
| Rosa Ellen Lavelle-Hill | Assistant Professor - Tenure Track | +4535325825 |
Contact
For inquiries about SODAS Climate, please contact the chairperson, Assist. Prof. Clara Vandeweerdt, at clara.vandeweerdt@ifs.ku.dk
Interested in learning more?
Join us on the last Friday of each month when SODAS Climate meets to share updates and discuss ongoing and future research collaborations. Additionally, each semester, SODAS Climate hosts a special SODAS Climate Lecture. To stay informed about these and other SODAS Talks, visit our event calendar for upcoming dates.