The political challenge of linking climate change and sustainable development policies: Risks and prospects

2022 ◽  
pp. 298-314
Author(s):  
R. James Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Political Challenge

Klimaatverandering als journalistieke uitdaging: een literatuurstudie

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard van der Wurff
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
News Values ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Political Framing ◽  
Selection Of

Climate change as a challenge for journalism: a review of the literature Climate change as a challenge for journalism: a review of the literature This literature review synthesizes 35 years of research on climate change reporting in industrialized countries. It focuses on the production and content of climate change news. Starting from the notion of the mediatisation of politics, the study shows that news values and media logic shape the selection of climate change related newsworthy events, while political actors and their logics determine the political framing of the issue. Next, implications for public opinion and mediated public debate are briefly assessed. Overall, the findings suggest that reporting focuses on threats and conflicts, favours national rather than transnational angles, reinforces ideological cleavages, downplays deliberative arguments, and disengages citizens. In conclusion, four lines of research are proposed that can help us better understand the role media might play in engaging citizens in a more deliberative mediated debate on climate change as important ecological and political challenge.

Sustainable diets

2011 ◽  
pp. 379-388
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Individual Behaviour ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Sustainability and nutrition 380 Sustainable development 382 Food security 383 Climate change and obesity 384 Useful websites and further reading 388 The public health nutrition field has identified a need to encompass the inter-relationship of man with his environment (The Giessen Declaration, 2005). Ecological public health nutrition places nutrition within its wider structural settings including the political, physical, socio-cultural and economic environment that influence individual behaviour and health. As a consequence, it includes the impact of what is eaten on the natural environment as well as the impact of environmental and climate change on all components of food security, i.e. on what food is available, accessible, utilizable and stable (...

Community development: (un) fulfilled hopes for social equality in Poland

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bilon ◽  
Ewa Kurantowicz ◽  
Monika Noworolnik-Mastalska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Human Values ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Participatory Citizenship

This chapter argues that community development policies may contribute to perpetuating social inequalities in spite of the very concept of community development being ideologically underpinned by the fundamental human values, such as equality, social equity, citizenship, participation in communal life and sustainable development. The authors’ argument is grounded in Poland’s post-socialist experiences in building communities, fostering participatory citizenship and advancing community development. Drawing on historical and empirical analyses, the authors seek to establish why, despite changes in the political configurations, profound systemic changes, and social and economic transformations, community development in Poland still persists in the fragmentary and discontinuous stage.

scholarly journals Picturing two modernities

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarkko Kangas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis ◽  
Ecological Modernisation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Guardian

AbstractThe article analyses the discursive roles of two prominent themes of the habitual media climate change imagery: “the smokestack” and “renewable energy”. Through semiotic analysis of connotation and thematic content analysis of images inThe Guardian, the article argues that the constant reliance on these two themes and the particular ways of representing them sustain a definition of climate change as atechnological dualism.The article argues further that this dualism of “dirty” and “clean” technologies, as the predominant way of visualising direct causes of and responses to climate change, articulates ecological modernisation discourse and its central storyline of progressing from “defiling growth” toward “sustainable development” (Hajer, 1995). The article suggests (1) further research on conventional thematic imageries as a meaningful approach to studying policy discourses and (2) the relevance of applying concepts of policy research to understanding and challenging the political bearings of prominent visualisations.

Operationalization of Circular Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-60
Author(s):  
Teresa Dieguez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economy Model ◽  
System A ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Persistent Poverty

The arguments for growth, inequality and persistent poverty, climate change, and finite resources call for stronger sustainable development policies, from both developed and developing countries. Situations of more or less (un)sustainability that encourage the idea of finding reasonable ways out of humanity's desire for progress can be conceived. The economy is nowadays mainly based on the called linear economy, which demands a paradigm shift within public administration, companies, and citizens must be committed. The present study has the main goal to understand how entrepreneurship and business have shaped the sustainability and the circular economy model requirements. It also aims to review important concepts like circular economy, sustainable development, sustainable entrepreneurship, servitization, and product-service system. A hypothetical conceptual model for the operationalization of the circular economy model is proposed. Finally, some discussion is done, future research is suggested, and conclusions are presented.

scholarly journals SDGs and the ability to manage change within the European green deal: The case of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Hanna Shevchenko ◽  
Mykola Petrushenko ◽  
Borys Burkynskyi ◽  
Nina Khumarova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Readiness For Change ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Weak Sustainability ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Systematic Solution

The European Green Deal by the European Commission is an ambitious policy aimed at achieving a climate-neutral economy. For Ukraine, the EGD is a priority in accelerating its European integration processes until 2030. The study aims to determine the country’s ability to manage change towards the implementing the concept of sustainable development, adjusted in accordance with the European Green Deal’s provisions, based on the analysis of SDG achievements in Ukraine, as well as on the identified quantitative results of readiness for change. The ability to manage change is determined by applying methods of analysis and generalization of descriptive statistics related to aspects of sustainable development and the EGD, as well as quantifying intermediate and final integral values of change management in Ukraine in the EGD context. The relationship between the SDGs and the EGD provisions on the “need for very high sustainability – sufficiency of weak sustainability” continuum was prioritized. The proposed provisions of the cooperation program provide for a thorough analysis of Ukrainian, European and global trends in the field of climate change and relevant sustainable development policies, use of statistical data, constant monitoring of indicators characterizing the dynamics of socio-economic, environmental and demographic status of the state and regions in connection with climate change, generalization of the experience of a climate-neutral economy, green energy, European integration processes, etc. The program is interdisciplinary in nature, which allows to get a comprehensive vision and provide a systematic solution to the problem of transforming the national economy in accordance with the European Green Deal. AcknowledgmentThe paper contains the results of research conducted under the President of Ukraine’s grant Formation and Use of Natural-Resource Assets of the Recreational and Tourism Sphere (0120U100159).

Of Environments and Landscapes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa F. Baird
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Political ◽  
Indigenous Heritage

This chapter examines the environmental contexts of cultural landscapes in Mongolia (climate change) and coastal sites in Alaska (oil spill) to show how landscapes intersect with environmental concerns and contexts. The case studies are placed within the larger debates surrounding the research and management of Indigenous heritage and the sociopolitical contexts and implications of heritage practices in environmental contexts to argue that the political contexts of heritage landscapes are often not identified within debates on sustainable development. The chapter demonstrates how ideas of sustainability, wilderness, and nature are central to how ideas of place are established, and urges that cultural heritage hold a more prominent position in ongoing debates.

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