International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Ostösterreich (AT1) · Austria
ERC Starting Grant · 2025
understAnding and governing habitabiLiTy in tHe context of climAtE chAnge
ALTHAEA will pioneer a novel approach to habitability in the context of climate change by investigating how meaning-making processes, cultural values, social practices, and politics shape what is considered habitable. Emerging scientific debates present habitability as a self-explanatory concept and frame it in deterministic and materialistic terms (i.e., as fixed and objective conditions resulting from crossing a physical threshold and/or exhausting resources sustaining life and livelihoods). Yet, these understandings neglect that habitability is culturally and socially experienced and intersectionally differentiated and overlook the role of human agency in shaping the habitability of…
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