In this introduction, we situate the topic of this Special Issue on ‘narratives of change’ in the scholarly literature about how we inform climate risk governance, including through climate services. We argue that many places experience a persistent mismatch between predominantly science-based and technical framings of climatic risk on the one hand, and the place-based understandings of climate extremes and responses of people living in these places on the other. We introduce the case studies presented in this issue and highlight their common focus on ‘narratives of change’ as one missing link in climate governance. Narratives of change address the past, present and future of a specific place understood as a weather-world, adding a cultural dimension to climate change experienced as a succession of weather and seasons. We focus on memories of extreme weather events and how people coped with them, in order to improve climate governance under future climatic change. We argue that attention to local narratives expands the scope of issues covered by climate information and improves its integration into social and cultural life. We offer up seven lessons for why it is important to incorporate narratives in climate governance and suggest some creative methods for doing so. Post-normal science, art-science cooperation, and the inclusion of the humanities mark the difference that the individual contributions make to the literature about climate governance and democratic decision-making.

在本引言中，我们将本期特刊中有关“变化的叙事”的主题置于学术文献中，以了解我们如何通过气候服务来指导气候风险治理。我们认为，许多地方一方面在以科学为基础的技术框架和气候风险的技术框架之间存在持续的不匹配，另一方面又对基于气候的极端现象和居住在这些地方的人们的反应进行了基于地方的理解。我们介绍了本期中介绍的案例研究，并重点介绍了它们共同关注“变化的叙事”，将其作为气候治理中的一个缺失环节。变化的叙述涉及特定地方的过去，现在和未来，这被理解为一个天气世界，为气候变化增加了文化层面的体验，而气候和季节的变化是连续的。我们专注于记录极端天气事件以及人们如何应对这些事件，以改善未来气候变化下的气候治理。我们认为，对当地叙事的关注扩大了气候信息所涵盖问题的范围，并改善了其与社会和文化生活的融合。我们提供了七个教训，说明了将叙事纳入气候治理的重要性，并提出了一些创新的方法。师范后科学，艺术科学合作以及人文科学的融合标志着个人对气候治理和民主决策的文献做出的贡献是不同的。我们认为，对当地叙事的关注扩大了气候信息所涵盖问题的范围，并改善了其与社会和文化生活的融合。我们提供了七个教训，说明了将叙事纳入气候治理的重要性，并提出了一些创新的方法。师范后科学，艺术科学合作以及人文科学的融合标志着个人对气候治理和民主决策的文献做出的贡献是不同的。我们认为，对当地叙事的关注扩大了气候信息所涵盖问题的范围，并改善了其与社会和文化生活的融合。我们提供了七个教训，说明了将叙事纳入气候治理的重要性，并提出了一些创新的方法。师范后科学，艺术科学合作以及人文科学的融合标志着个人对气候治理和民主决策的文献做出的贡献是不同的。