Adaptación al cambio climático en Venezuela: ¿quiénes y cómo se investiga?

Abstract

The construction of an agenda for Climate Change Adaptation is a neither neutral nor intrinsically good, politically complex process. It builds a discoursive field were different social entities with particular interests and perspectives interact with each other while putting forward transformation paths with diverse social consequencies. Therefore, it is valid to ask, which are those paths, how are they developed, and to which political view are they aligned? For Venezuela, a country designated as Vulnerable by the UN (UNFCCC), what characterizes the techno-political discourse of the Venezuelan academic community that contributes to this Agenda, and how does it describe the Adaptation process? In the following work, these questions were answered by analyzing the structure of co-authorship and social capital networks associated with the authors and research groups identified in the literature. Moreoever, the scientific practices were described through the systematization of information related to their methodological approaches and scientific productivity, among others. There is a highly fragmented community framed in the narrative of risk management and reduction of climate change impacts, characteristic of the historical moment of construction of multilateral consensus and of the notion of anthropogenic climate change. Some of the ecological-political implications of the results obtained are discussed.