Gail Hochachka

• Hochachka, Gail (2019). On matryoshkas and meaning-making: Understanding the plasticity of climate change. Global Environmental Change.  ISSN 0959-3780.  57, s 1- 19 . doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.001
• Veland, Siri; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schorre, Ann Kristin; El Khoury, Ann; Nordbø, Milda Jonusaite; Lynch, Amanda H.; Hochachka, Gail & Bjørkan, Maiken (2018). Narrative matters for sustainability: the transformative role of storytelling in realizing 1.5°C futures. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.  ISSN 1877-3435.  31, s 41- 47 . doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.12.005 Full text in Research Archive.

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• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Integrating the four faces of adaptation: Toward transformative change in Guatemalan coffee communities. Show summary

  Despite the complexity of climate change, the dominant definition and practice of adaptation remains reactive, incremental, and focused primarily on biophysical and techno-managerial changes. Researchers suggest this is necessary but not sufficient, and increasingly note the importance of subjectivity, in both individuals and groups, in fostering comprehensive adaptation as well as for creating a more conscious, deliberate transformation. In this paper, I consider how to expand the scope and depth of ‘adaptation’ as it is currently defined and practiced, presenting an Integral analytical framework that weights more evenly the ‘interior’ forms of adaptation alongside a mainstream adaptation approach. Drawing on comparative case study research in Guatemalan coffee-growing communities, I explore how a more balanced integration of the subjective and objective adaptive capacities, in individuals and collectives, leads to four types of adaptation— personal, practical, critical-structural and co-generative. The research findings present: 1) two imaginaries for sustainable futures based on how the communities confronted entangled changes in their regions; 2) the interior adaptations (personal and co-generative) are less emphasized overall but can be integrated with dominant forms of adaptation practice; 3) critical-structural adaptations can particularly help disrupt status quo structural arrangements and to generate transformation, and 4) including a more comprehensive range of adaptations, and their associated adaptive capacities, may better position communities to engage in transformative change toward sustainability. My inquiry finds that the shift from adaptation to transformation, is not only possible but the latter might be closer at hand than expected.

• Hochachka, Gail (2019). On Matryoshkas And Meaning-Making: Understanding The Plasticity Of Climate Change And Contemplating What This Might Mean For Transformation.
• Hochachka, Gail & O'Fallon, Terri (2019, 30. oktober). Climate Change and the use of the STAGES assessment for understanding worldviews. [Internett].
• O'Brien, Karen; Hochachka, Gail & Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2019). Creating a Culture for Transformation, In Guiseppe Feola; Hilary Geoghegen & Alex Arnall (ed.),  Climate and Culture : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World.  Cambridge University Press.  ISBN 9781108422505.  Chapter 12.  s 266 - 290
• Hochachka, Gail (2018). Beyond the floor boards and the glass ceiling: Working with stages of consciousness in a changing climate.. Show summary

  Climate change is distributed massively across time and space, difficult to grasp cognitively, and almost impossible to directly experience. Meaning regarding climate change is made differently according to a diversity of perspectives. This presents a complex challenge to humanity--a challenge which continues to evade resolution despite the excellent scientific research, supportive intergovernmental processes, and growing citizen concern. Integral theory provides some important insights, particularly from its central tenant of developmental psychology, which is currently largely absent from the climate change discourse. This presentation will examine three reasons why developmental stages of integral theory are important in climate change: 1) to disclose why people make meaning of climate change so differently, which in turn could reduce conflict and assist in finding mutual understanding between worldviews; 2) to align better with the diverse spectrum of meaning-making and thus help in crafting pathways for adaptation from within each stage; and 3) to hold open the probability spaces for later developmental stages that are more commensurate with the full complexity of the issue. As such, not only does an understanding of stages help us to meet the challenge of climate change in a spectrum of ways across a developmental unfolding, but also staying in step with an issue like climate change could itself generate emergent ground for transformation.

• Hochachka, Gail (2018). The orchestra plays while the Titanic sinks: Exploring coffee and climate change adaptation. Show summary

  Technical adaptation to climate change as been referred to as "necessary but insufficient” as to assume a technical solution is possible belies the full complexity of the issue. In this talk, I will take a deep look at this, with some preliminary research from the coffee growing regions of Guatemala as an example.

• Hochachka, Gail (2017). The tetra-meshed Earth: Depth and innovation in climate change adaptation.. Show summary

  In this talk, the contours of the challenge that is climate change is presented, namely how to grasp in meaning such a wicked problem and hyperobject: something not directly seen nor directly experienced, so radically nonlocal and involving of multiple disciplines, that exists on timeline we can’t easily conceive of, and regarding a future we can only approximate. Making sense of an issue this complex is slippery and plastic, and how we then engage it even more so. Drawing on field work in Guatemala in climate change adaptation, the talk presents some good news about the climate change field at present, describes certain gaps that persist, and then dives into the avant-garde of where we may venture in terms of climate change engagement in the future.

• Hochachka, Gail (2017). Unexpected innovations for climate change adaptation. Show summary

  This talk examines the challenge that climate change adaptation presents to the coffee sector. Coffee is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adaptation will require many tiny hammers designed to hit context-specific nails, and as such a global value chain presents a compelling opportunity to foster adaptation at each point. The talk focuses on how adaptation could be enabled along the whole global value chain, which is construed not as a linear one-way extraction of wealth from producing regions, but rather a dynamic circulation of wealth back into the communities and ecosystems of producing regions. This has the potential to reframe the relationships of global trade, not just based on transaction but on trust, as an ecosystem where each part supports the others.

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