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Journal of Climate Resilience and Justice (2023) 1: 3–7.
Published: 05 September 2023
... Report, AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 , of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , human activities, principally through emissions of GHGs, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperatures reaching 1.1°C above 1850–1900 levels in 2011–2020 ( IPCC, 2023...
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Journal of Climate Resilience and Justice (2023) 1: 1–2.
Published: 05 September 2023
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for climate risk, an epicenter of both real and imagined environmental catastrophe.
Ironically, some of the world’s foremost climate scientists call Boulder home, at
institutions like the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (a
partnership between...
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Journal: Negotiation Journal
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Negotiation Journal (2024) 40 (3-4): 211–226.
Published: 10 December 2024
...Anselm Dannecker; Monica Giannone Early career climate negotiators face tough challenges—with little formal authority they must exert influence in a highly formalized negotiation process that produces bad bargaining dynamics. The authors describe the process of devising a training series...
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Early career climate negotiators face tough challenges—with little formal authority they must exert influence in a highly formalized negotiation process that produces bad bargaining dynamics. The authors describe the process of devising a training series for such climate negotiators from underrepresented and underresourced countries. They highlight challenges they faced, and distill lessons learned. Specifically, the article explores how negotiation theory can be made useful for people who are granted little authority to negotiate creatively, how to leverage insights from senior practitioners effectively, and how to train and engage an audience online that is scattered around the world, underpaid, overworked, and dials in with bad WiFi.
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Journal: European Societies
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European Societies (2024) 26 (5): 1545–1571.
Published: 19 October 2024
...Giuseppe Cugnata; Jessica Cuel; Niccolò Bertuzzi; Louisa Parks; Lorenzo Zamponi ABSTRACT With the emergence of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, youth climate activism has attracted increasing attention. Climate strikes are part of a long trajectory of mobilizations for climate justice...
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ABSTRACT With the emergence of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, youth climate activism has attracted increasing attention. Climate strikes are part of a long trajectory of mobilizations for climate justice, rooted in global justice and environmental struggles. Although research on social movements has analyzed differences and continuities within these, there have been few systematic comparisons between youth climate strikes and ‘traditional’ climate justice marches. Our paper contributes to fill this gap. We focus on the framing of climate change in two different protest actions that took place in Milan, Italy, during the Pre-COP26 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2021: a climate strike by Fridays for Future, and a ‘traditional’ climate justice march by a wide coalition of actors. Relying on protest surveys and qualitative interviews, we discuss differences, similarities, and spaces for convergence among activists in these different fora, focusing on the framing of climate change, and on the meanings attached to ‘system change’.
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Journal: European Societies
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European Societies (2024) 26 (4): 1046–1070.
Published: 07 August 2024
...Tobias Rüttenauer ABSTRACT Previous research has shown a link between extreme weather events and people's beliefs about climate change and their pro-environmental behaviour. This indicates that people may become more environmentally friendly amid increasing extreme weather events. Still...
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ABSTRACT Previous research has shown a link between extreme weather events and people's beliefs about climate change and their pro-environmental behaviour. This indicates that people may become more environmentally friendly amid increasing extreme weather events. Still, the influence of experiencing extreme weather events on actual behaviour has rarely been tested with large-scale individual-level data and longitudinal methods. This study links panel data from 35,678 individuals to floods across England and heatwaves across the UK and applies within-person estimators to account for pre-existing differences between affected and unaffected individuals. Results reveal that individuals are more likely to believe in climate change after being affected by a geographically proximate flood or a temporally proximate heatwave. This association is stronger among initially right-leaning partisans and those initially more sceptic about the existence of climate change, thereby indicating attitudinal updating due to experiential learning. However, those exposed to extreme weather events do not change their environmental behaviour such as energy saving, sustainable shopping or mode of transportation. Even among those who are more likely to believe in climate change, people's behaviour does not react to extreme weather events.
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Journal: Leonardo
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Leonardo (2024) 57 (4): 428–433.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in Antarctica, moving then to vibrational data at a seismic deployment in the Jornada desert, New Mexico, envisioning a site-specific listening approach that would effectively merge art and science. The authors propose new models of collaboration in ever-more-urgent global responses to the climate crisis...
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The authors, an artist and a geophysicist, present three different approaches to art-science projects, depicting hybrid models of interdisciplinarity, particularly via sound art. They first cooperate to create an art installation using sonified seismic data collected in Antarctica, moving then to vibrational data at a seismic deployment in the Jornada desert, New Mexico, envisioning a site-specific listening approach that would effectively merge art and science. The authors propose new models of collaboration in ever-more-urgent global responses to the climate crisis, revealing what we might call the “voices” of climate change.
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Journal: Global Environmental Politics
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Global Environmental Politics (2024) 24 (3): 144–167.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Jale Tosun; Emiliano Levario Saad; Denise Gutiérrez We build on research on polycentric climate governance and the strategic behavior of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to assess the factors that determine the partnership choices of climate NGOs. More precisely, we are interested in how...
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We build on research on polycentric climate governance and the strategic behavior of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to assess the factors that determine the partnership choices of climate NGOs. More precisely, we are interested in how these factors relate to the type of governance actors and the governance scale at which their partners operate. We concentrate on 195 NGOs based in twenty-one Latin American countries. Our hypotheses postulate that the perceived benefits are shaped by both country-level factors and NGO-specific factors. Our network analysis reveals that the NGOs have formed networks with different types of organizations, which are located at different scales of the polycentric governance system. The findings of our regression models show that these factors especially explain the governance scale at which the NGOs’ partners operate. The explanatory power of the models is lower for the types of actors with which the NGOs form partnerships, indicating the need for further theorizing.
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Journal: Global Environmental Politics
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Global Environmental Politics (2024) 24 (3): 121–143.
Published: 01 August 2024
... level), and governance with networks (collaboration with other actors at the system level). We then trace the evolution of three transnational municipal networks (the Climate Alliance, Covenant of Mayors, and 100 Resilient Cities/Resilient Cities Network), which are located at different positions along...
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All governance systems are polycentric to some extent in that they comprise multiple actors with varying degrees of autonomy. However, there has been limited theorization as to how we might measure polycentricity, even though this could help us unpack networks and understand governance arrangements better. We present three dimensions of governance to conceptualize degrees of polycentricity—governance of networks (internal organization and management at the network level), governance by networks (their impacts at the membership level), and governance with networks (collaboration with other actors at the system level). We then trace the evolution of three transnational municipal networks (the Climate Alliance, Covenant of Mayors, and 100 Resilient Cities/Resilient Cities Network), which are located at different positions along the polycentric–monocentric spectrum. We examine how these networks have become more or less polycentric over time and highlight trade-offs between different dimensions of polycentric governance, most notably governance of and governance by .
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Journal: Global Environmental Politics
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Global Environmental Politics (2024) 24 (3): 24–47.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Elke Kellner; Daniel Petrovics; Dave Huitema In recent years, climate governance has shifted from the global, multilateral regime to voluntary initiatives from multiple directions. Scholars frequently use a polycentric governance lens to study the complex and multijurisdictional reality...
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In recent years, climate governance has shifted from the global, multilateral regime to voluntary initiatives from multiple directions. Scholars frequently use a polycentric governance lens to study the complex and multijurisdictional reality. The polycentric perspective helps to grasp the new reality at a general level, but it is lacking in specificity. To fill this research gap, this article attempts to enhance the analytical power of the polycentric governance perspective by exploring four issues: the role of the state, diffusion of local action, integration of local democratic preferences, and the role of power. These issues are discussed by doing a systematic literature review of empirical polycentric governance literature regarding climate change mitigation. The results show the importance of states at the national level and provide insights into how local initiatives share and transfer knowledge, get supported by transnational networks, and secure compliance with local democratic preferences. The literature provides less insight into the role of power. The article concludes by developing research agendas for further cumulation of knowledge and to strengthen climate action at all levels.
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Journal: Global Environmental Politics
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Global Environmental Politics (2024) 24 (3): 168–190.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Paul Tobin; Andreas Duit; Niall Kelly; Ciara Kelly Much existing empirical research on polycentric climate governance (PCG) systems examines small- N examples. In response, we aim to advance studies of PCG by exploring, and reflecting on, the use of large- N data sets for analyzing PCG. We use...
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Much existing empirical research on polycentric climate governance (PCG) systems examines small- N examples. In response, we aim to advance studies of PCG by exploring, and reflecting on, the use of large- N data sets for analyzing PCG. We use Python (a programming language) to create a novel data set from the United Nations’ Global Climate Action Portal. This method allows us to quantify key variables for 12,568 businesses located in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries: the number of businesses’ climate commitments, their progress toward meeting those commitments, and businesses’ memberships in “more polycentric” networks via transnational climate initiatives (TCIs). Our analysis of these data reveals that greater interconnectedness may strengthen climate policy performance, since businesses with memberships in TCIs more commonly achieved their commitments. Additional research using these data, and/or similar methods, could be conducted on climate governance and on other areas of international environmental governance, such as mining and oil production.
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The Review of Economics and Statistics 1–46.
Published: 14 June 2024
...Peter Andre; Teodora Boneva; Felix Chopra; Armin Falk We document the individual willingness to act against climate change and study the role of social norms in a large sample of US adults. Individual beliefs about social norms positively predict pro-climate donations, comparable in strength...
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We document the individual willingness to act against climate change and study the role of social norms in a large sample of US adults. Individual beliefs about social norms positively predict pro-climate donations, comparable in strength to universal moral values and economic preferences. However, we document systematic misperceptions of social norms. Respondents vastly underestimate the prevalence of climate-friendly behaviors and norms. Correcting these misperceptions in an experiment causally raises individual willingness to act against climate change and individual support for climate policies. The effects are strongest for individuals who are skeptical about the existence and threat of global warming.
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Journal: Daedalus
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Daedalus (2024) 153 (2): 247–261.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Fernando M. Reimers This essay examines how universities are responding to demands to educate students for climate action. I argue for a whole-of-university approach, in which sustainability becomes part of the mission of the university, and translates into reimagined forms of education, research...
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This essay examines how universities are responding to demands to educate students for climate action. I argue for a whole-of-university approach, in which sustainability becomes part of the mission of the university, and translates into reimagined forms of education, research, outreach, and management of the university operations. This approach runs counter to the most common response of universities, incremental to new demands, and is likely to take place only in institutions with greater capacity for innovation. Strategy and knowledge are key resources to support such innovation, drawing on the comparative analysis of the global experience of higher education, as there are already high rates of institutional innovation globally in educating for climate action.
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Journal: Global Environmental Politics
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Global Environmental Politics (2024) 24 (2): 9–18.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Hamish van der Ven; Diego Corry; Rawie Elnur; Viola Jasmine Provost; Muh Syukron The contributions of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and social media to the climate crisis are often underestimated. To date, much of the focus has been on direct emissions associated with the life cycle...
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The contributions of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and social media to the climate crisis are often underestimated. To date, much of the focus has been on direct emissions associated with the life cycle of tech products. In this forum article, we argue that this narrow focus misses the adverse and indirect impacts of generative AI and social media on the climate. We outline some of the indirect ways in which generative AI and social media undermine the optimism, focus, creativity, and veracity required to address the climate crisis. Our aim is twofold. First, we seek to balance the tide of optimism about the role of digitalization in addressing the climate crisis by offering a skeptic’s perspective. Second, we outline a new research agenda that moves beyond counting directly attributable carbon emissions and proposes a more comprehensive accounting of the indirect ways in which social media and generative AI adversely impact the sociopolitical conditions required to address the climate crisis.
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Journal: Global Environmental Politics
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Global Environmental Politics (2024) 24 (2): 19–45.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Jens Marquardt; Eva Lövbrand; Frida Buhre In this article, we examine how young climate activists make use of the United Nations (UN) constituency system to give voice to children and youth in global climate governance. Our study is based on a mapping of accredited youth nongovernmental...
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In this article, we examine how young climate activists make use of the United Nations (UN) constituency system to give voice to children and youth in global climate governance. Our study is based on a mapping of accredited youth nongovernmental organizations (YOUNGO) as well as fieldwork at two UN Climate Change Conferences, where we conducted interviews, observed events, and analyzed plenary interventions. Informed by constructivist accounts of political representation, the article pays attention to the performative relationship between institutionalized means of youth representation and “the represented.” When analyzing our material, we asked who speaks for youth, how youth are spoken of, and how institutions shape representative speech. Our study identifies three subject positions that offer competing interpretations of who youth are as a political community and what they want. Rather than taking youth’s demands and interests as a starting point for representative politics, the article illustrates how the UN constituency system actively constructs youth and effectively molds young climate activists into professional insiders.
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The power of morality in movements: Civic engagement in climate justice, human rights, and democracy
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European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology (2024) 11 (2): 285–288.
Published: 02 April 2024
...Runya Qiaoan [email protected] The power of morality in movements: Civic engagement in climate justice, human rights, and democracy , edited by Anders Sevelsted and Jonas Toubøl . Cham, Switzerland , Springer , 2022 , 334 pp., EUR 53.49 (hardcover) , ISBN...
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Journal: Data Intelligence
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Data Intelligence (2024) 6 (1): 29–63.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Paulo Pirozelli; Marcos M. José; Igor Silveira; Flávio Nakasato; Sarajane M. Peres; Anarosa A. F. Brandão; Anna H. R. Costa; Fabio G. Cozman ABSTRACT Pirá is a reading comprehension dataset focused on the ocean, the Brazilian coast, and climate change, built from a collection of scientific...
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ABSTRACT Pirá is a reading comprehension dataset focused on the ocean, the Brazilian coast, and climate change, built from a collection of scientific abstracts and reports on these topics. This dataset represents a versatile language resource, particularly useful for testing the ability of current machine learning models to acquire expert scientific knowledge. Despite its potential, a detailed set of baselines has not yet been developed for Pirá. By creating these baselines, researchers can more easily utilize Pirá as a resource for testing machine learning models across a wide range of question answering tasks. In this paper, we define six benchmarks over the Pirá dataset, covering closed generative question answering, machine reading comprehension, information retrieval, open question answering, answer triggering, and multiple choice question answering. As part of this effort, we have also produced a curated version of the original dataset, where we fixed a number of grammar issues, repetitions, and other shortcomings. Furthermore, the dataset has been extended in several new directions, so as to face the aforementioned benchmarks: translation of supporting texts from English into Portuguese, classification labels for answerability, automatic paraphrases of questions and answers, and multiple choice candidates. The results described in this paper provide several points of reference for researchers interested in exploring the challenges provided by the Pirá dataset.
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Journal: American Journal of Law and Equality
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American Journal of Law and Equality (2023) 3: 103–149.
Published: 15 September 2023
... I’ve seen again and again, is exploitation. In international negotiations, calls for climate justice typically refer to the moral responsibility of those countries that caused the problem, such as the United States and Europe, toward those that disproportionately bear its consequences...
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Journal of Climate Resilience and Justice (2023) 1: 8–19.
Published: 05 September 2023
...Penn Loh; Neenah Estrella-Luna; Katherine Shor Community responses to the impacts of COVID-19 in working-class communities of color in the Boston area are examples of resilience in action. Building climate resilience is not just about hardening physical infrastructure but also about strengthening...
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Community responses to the impacts of COVID-19 in working-class communities of color in the Boston area are examples of resilience in action. Building climate resilience is not just about hardening physical infrastructure but also about strengthening social and civic infrastructure to reach and protect the most vulnerable. This article explores the lessons learned from the pandemic for more equitable approaches to climate resilience. We find that community-based organizations and networks are building social capital through mutual aid networks rooted in solidarity, care, and reciprocity and forging new collaborations with government, funders, and service providers. These social capacities have saved lives and can also help transform the systems that produce vulnerabilities and inequities in the first place. Our overarching conclusion is that resilience is rooted in our abilities to work together, mobilize resources, and take care of one another.
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Journal of Climate Resilience and Justice (2023) 1: 33–54.
Published: 05 September 2023
...Kristin B. Raub; Hannah Platter; Erin O’Mara; Bindu Panikkar Building coastal resilience can help communities prepare and adapt to climate change. While the impacts of climate change are not equitably distributed, a method has not been developed to measure how resilience plans address justice...
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Building coastal resilience can help communities prepare and adapt to climate change. While the impacts of climate change are not equitably distributed, a method has not been developed to measure how resilience plans address justice. This study developed a Just Resilience Index (JRI) to assess how justice themes were incorporated into resilience plans. The JRI examines how justice frameworks (recognitional, distributive, and procedural justice, community capability) were addressed within the resilience plans of 11 U.S. coastal cities. Justice was considered in 41% of the resilience plan actions. Fifty-two percent of the justice-related actions recognized the needs of low-income communities but only 3% recognized specific racial groups. Of the justice-related actions, 73% addressed distributive justice but procedural justice was least characterized within the plans (46%). The JRI can guide future planning efforts to ensure that justice frameworks are better integrated within resilience planning to reduce inequities from climate-related disasters.
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Journal of Climate Resilience and Justice (2023) 1: 93–106.
Published: 05 September 2023
...Surbhi Sarang; Ranjani Prabhakar The traditional environmental movement has historically excluded communities of color and ignored environmental issues of concern to them. This has impeded partnerships with climate justice communities and groups and perpetuated inequitable climate policies...
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The traditional environmental movement has historically excluded communities of color and ignored environmental issues of concern to them. This has impeded partnerships with climate justice communities and groups and perpetuated inequitable climate policies. For climate justice to be achieved, the traditional environmental movement must repair relationships, collaborate with climate justice communities on just and equitable terms, and incorporate climate justice into its agenda. These efforts will succeed only if traditional environmental organizations invest in building their capacity to engage in climate justice work, including training staff in new skills such as cultural competency. This article examines the barriers impeding climate justice partnerships and details the skills organizations must develop to overcome these barriers. The article then explores systems of accountability to hold organizations responsible for building their capability to engage in climate justice partnerships and recommends criteria to assess their progress.
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