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Much of environmental governance is about coordinating action in time; from sequencing policy cycles, to anticipating environmental changes, triggering activities, or synchronizing the everyday. This takes diverse forms of time work - individuals and groups efforts to influence what happens when - underpinned by people’s temporal capacities for determining the opportune moments to act. In this perspective piece, we argue that the field has come to overlook the essential plurality of time work with its long-sighted focus on future risks, and advocate for working a broader spectrum of temporal capacities back into governance, as vital for effecting timely action. We aim to make temporal capacities visible and actionable for effecting timely action in environmental governance. We progress by first sketching some concepts for engaging with temporal capacity, and second by advocating for transdisciplinary approaches to mobilise these capacities.

About the speaker

Scott Bremer is a Research Professor (Forsker I) with a background in environmental planning, policy and governance, and most of his recent work is on climate adaptation governance. Bremer is interested in how science and other ways of knowing are used in support of decisions and action in governance institutions, including at the so-called 'science-policy interface’. Bremer is affiliated with the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) at the University of Bergen.