Amid research into the mounting social and environmental threats presented by climate change, young people’s everyday experiences and knowledges are often overlooked, despite being the generation that will be most affected by climate change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary research projects wherein young people in the Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil shared their perspectives on (respectively) climate-related disasters and the food–water–energy nexus. The approach brings together the theoretical framings of citizen science and nexus thinking under the aegis of participatory action research, to identify points of mutual learning in relation to the knowledge, action and critique co-produced with young people. This ‘looping methodology’ enables meta-analytic insights into how participatory action research, looped with other forms of action-oriented research, can enable young people and other protagonists to articulate and act upon the complex, multi-scalar processes that characterise what it means to live in uncertain social, political and environmental times.

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促进巴西年轻人的气候变化转型：通过循环方法进行参与式行动研究

在对气候变化带来的日益严重的社会和环境威胁进行研究的过程中，尽管年轻人的日常生活和知识受到了气候变化的影响最大，但他们经常被忽视。我们提出了一种“循环”方法，该方法是通过两个截然不同但互补的研究项目之间的合作开发而成的，巴西圣保罗州南帕拉依巴流域的年轻人在（分别）与气候有关的灾难和食物水方面分享了他们的观点–能量关系。该方法在参与性行动研究的倡导下，将公民科学和联系思想的理论框架整合在一起，以识别与年轻人共同产生的知识，行动和评论相关的相互学习点。