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‘Food is the first thing, but the morals must follow on’: An attempt to holistically frame the discourse for action in the conditions of climate change

The article aims to set up a general conceptual framework for explaining the combined natural and social conditions associated with global climate change. Starting from addressing the issues through the metaphor of ‘the tragedy of the commons’ it suggests that a pessimistic reading can be avoided in situations where different participants of the commons understand the universal rules constraining preferable management strategies, and can choose to form mutual agreements to act cooperatively in furthering some of their individual interests. Principle-style explanations are introduced and suggested as a useful explanatory model in this case, based on the considerations from the history of science. Further ontological commitments of explanations of this type are investigated (holons and ‘clumsy’ interaction), followed by a discussion of framing as the most important segment of context setting for the formulation of experienced regularities as behaviour constraining principles. It is suggested that a concept of (human) security provides a suitable foundation for the generalization of experienced phenomena, at local and global scales of the commons-management, into said principles. Based on the behaviours’’ effects on the (human) security 3 broadly applicable constraining principles are tentatively proposed, opening up space for further tests of case-study applicability, both in terms of universal validity and conceptual accessibility to different commons-management participants.

climate chnage; tragedy of commons; explanation; principle-style; ontological commitments

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