Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The debates concerning environmental problems have been bringing to life existential issues and conducting to the questioning of the human condition in the world, in other words, matters related to ethics, reason and culture.Typically, government policies don't exploit these values, prevailing often objectivist analysis and, therefore, distancing it from the lifeworld (Lebenswelt) and all its meanings.The background of this problem begins at the advent of modern scientific rationality which emerged in the late 19 th century.Thus, the fragmentation of knowledge, institutions and life as a whole has been accentuated nowadays, leading to the concealment of fundamental values.In this scenario, adaptation policies as measures and strategies in response to climate change have become an important approach for tackling the urgency of environmental problems.Hence, beyond the rationality that is restricted to purely objective assumptions, to think adaptation policies considering reflections on the lifeworld perspective aims, a) a radical return to the experience of people in order to redirect the basis of knowledge and, on the other hand, b) to extend the values that limit adaptation policies, including ethics, culture and knowledge.In a general, the return to the lifeworld as vital foundation will expose a critique to the modern reason of the ideal of science and politics.Essentially, we suggest redirecting both to the lifeworld's horizon, with the task of a new attitude of thinking and doing: a return to consciousness and reason.
Author: Rafael Bastos Ferreira
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2583613655