Shifting power through climate research

This briefing from the Stockholm Environment Institute explores how individual researchers can modify the design, implementation, and dissemination of climate and environment research to challenge unequal power relations and colonial-era legacies that disadvantage the Global South and marginalized communities.

• The briefing aims to provide researchers with insights to shift, rather than reinforce, unequal power dynamics in climate and environment research that negatively impact marginalized communities and the Global South, specifically seeking to address colonial-era legacies that skew research and its uptake.
• Drawing on decolonialism literature and knowledge co-production processes, the authors suggest practical methods for researchers to challenge existing practices across the entire project lifecycle, including design, implementation, and the dissemination of findings.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2022). Shifting power through climate research. https://www.sei.org/publications/shifting-power-through-climate-research

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Shifting power through climate research. 2022. https://www.sei.org/publications/shifting-power-through-climate-research.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2022shifting, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Shifting power through climate research}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/shifting-power-through-climate-research}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }