Approaching climate change from space, difference and scale

Abstract

The scientific disciplines in the face of global environmental change have an important role in providing knowledge for its understanding and to formulate, implement and evaluate policies aimed at the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG); adaptation to climate variability and promoting resilience, sustainability and social change. Numerous studies have been developed from the natural and social sciences that analyze climate change (CC) from different angles, which have allowed a better understanding of this phenomenon in its scientific, technical, environmental, economic, and social aspects. Some of them are located in a particular space and scale to understand, for example, what generates it, how it presents itself, what effects it produces, and what actions to take to deal with it. Depending on how the CC problem is understood and where the analysis is located (space and scale) will be the type of response to these questions. For this reason, there is a need to reflect on some theoretical-methodological elements that allow us to understand how the space, the positioning and hierarchization (scale) of the agents, the processes, and the relationships that are produced and reproduced in space, influence in the CC problem. This essay seeks to contribute to this reflection; In particular, it is aimed at reflecting on how to approach space and the positioning and hierarchization (scale) of the subjects, processes, and relationships that are produced and reproduced in a space where the problem of climate change is present.