In Search of Climate Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
City Government ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Intrinsic Complexity ◽  
A Site ◽  
Public Decision

In what ways is climate change political? This book addresses this key - but oddly neglected - question. It argues that in order to answer it we need to understand politics in a three-fold way: as a site of authoritative, public decision-making; as a question of power; and as a conflictual phenomenon. Recurring themes center on de- and re-politicization, and a tension between attempts to simplify climate change to a single problem and its intrinsic complexity. These dynamics are driven by processes of capital accumulation and their associated subjectivities. The book explores these arguments through an analysis of a specific city - Ottawa - which acts as a microcosm of these broader processes. It provides detailed analyses of conflicts over urban planning, transport, and attempts by city government and other institutions to address climate change. The book will be valuable for students and researches looking at the politics of climate change.

The Green New Deal, Subsidiarity, and Local Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Christopher Rice ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Ethical Foundation ◽  
Common Criticism

A common criticism of the Green New Deal proposal to address climate change is that it would centralize too much power at the level of the federal government. However, the Green New Deal can avoid this by centering local action and decision-making in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity from Catholic social ethics. This principle holds that higher levels of society should not override the initiative of lower levels of society but should instead coordinate and support their work whenever possible. A focus on subsidiarity is already present in the framing of the Green New Deal proposal and provides a sound ethical foundation for its development and implementation.

Bringing women's livelihood and care perspectives into climate decision making.

2021 ◽  
pp. 196-210
Author(s):  
P. E. Perkins ◽  
B. Osman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
The Face ◽  
Climate Crisis

Abstract This chapter explores the livelihood and care implications of the climate crisis from a gendered viewpoint that includes the implications of this approach for climate decision making at multiple scales, from local to global. The focus is on grassroots political organizing, activism, and movements as well as women's community-based actions to (re)build social resilience in the face of climate chaos. Challenges and policy implications are discussed as governments struggle to meaningfully and equitably address climate change. Also highlighted are the transformational imperatives of care and livelihood priorities which cast into stark relief the unsustainability of the long-established gender inequities that serve as the foundation for economic systems everywhere.

Public Communication in Urban Planning

2014 ◽  
pp. 200-232
Author(s):  
Łukasz Damurski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Public Decision

In most European countries, urban planning is a domain of public administration and as such should be a subject of transparent, democratic decision-making procedures. It bares the growing need for public communication, especially in the context of the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The Internet strongly influences public decision-making systems, including urban planning. This chapter looks for particular patterns and standards of public communication in urban planning in Poland and Germany by comparing online participation tools and by analyzing three complimentary aspects of e-participation in planning: “transparency,” “spatiality,” and “interactivity.”

Normative Debates and Policy Responses in Climate Change Politics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loren R. Cass
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Physical Phenomenon ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Climate Change Politics

Climate change politics refers to attempts to define climate change as a physical phenomenon as well as to delineate current and predict future effects on the environment and broader implications for human affairs as a foundation for political action. Defining the causes, scale, time frame, and consequences of climate change is critical to determining the political response. Given the high stakes involved in both the consequences of climate change and the distributive implications of policies to address climate change, climate change politics has been and remains highly contentious both within countries and across countries. Climate politics presents difficulties for study given its interdisciplinary nature and the scientific complexities involved in climate change. The international relations literature surrounding climate politics has also evolved and grown substantially since the mid-2000s. Efforts to address the consequences of climate change have evoked controversial ethical and distributive justice questions that have produced an important normative literature. These debates increasingly inform the ongoing negotiations surrounding responsibility for the problem of climate change and the policies required to address climate change. There is also a larger debate regarding the complex linkages between climate change and broader ecological as well as economic and political consequences of both the effects of climate change and policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or remove them from the atmosphere. As we enter the 2020s, a new debate has emerged related to the implications of the posited transition to the Anthropocene Epoch and the future of climate politics. Normative and policy debates surrounding climate change politics remain contentious without a clear path to meaningful political action.

scholarly journals Adaptation techniques of an urban planning due to climate change

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 ◽  
pp. 05013
Author(s):  
Natalia Bakaeva ◽  
Maria Suvorova ◽  
Roman Sheps ◽  
Alexandra Kormina
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
New Challenges

In this paper there is reviewed a concept of adaptation of an urban planning to the changing climate conditions. The statements of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN FCCC, which are actively discussed these days in conditions of new challenges, determine a necessity of applying scientifically reasoned approaches to the landscape development and city transformation considering the climate change in the urban environment. There are discussed statements of climate change adapted concept of the urban planning and are reviewed examples of urban solutions corresponding to these statements. The authors are convinced that problem solving of the climate change adapted urban planning requires an interdisciplinary approach, embracing multiple scientific directions such as ecological, urban, social, technical and technological. In this aspect the concept of adaptation the urban planning to volatile climate conditions represent a long-term strategy of the urban development, which is, first of all, requires a preparation of a roadmap and then decision making, which would conduce to forming a fully comfortable and safe urban environment.

scholarly journals Tackling Climate Change in China: A Hybrid Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-171
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Poderati ◽  
Shutian Ou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Existential Problem ◽  
Political Decision Making

Abstract This article argues that climate change policies should be designed as far as possible with the involvement of civil society at large, as it is an existential problem that concerns the whole of humanity. It is suggested that in the Chinese context, the legal system and political decision-making processes could better address climate change for example, through the participatory processes promoted by the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1992 and subsequent instruments. The article explores the possibility of adopting a hybrid approach in China by developing an interactive platform linking the relevant components of civil society in order to gather critical expertise and insights from the community as a whole. A hybrid approach would be directed at combining the current top-down approach with a bottom-up approach, which would potentially contribute to an increase in transparency and accountability in legislative and political decision-making processes to produce the best possible legal approaches and policy strategies for addressing climate change.

Speaking of Psychology: Psychologists Address Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Luna ◽  
Kim Mills ◽  
Brian Dixon ◽  
Marcel de Sousa ◽  
Christine Roland Levy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Address Climate Change

Site, Adapt, Perform: A Practice-as-Research Confrontation with Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Kloetzel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Adaptive Performance ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Arts Festivals ◽  
A Site

In recent years, arts festivals around the globe have become enamoured of touring, site-based performance. Such serialised site work is growing in popularity due to its accessibility, its spectacular characteristics, and its adaptive qualities. Employing practice-as-research methodologies to dissect the basis of such site-adaptive performances, the author highlights her discovery of the crumbling foundation of the adaptation discourse by way of her creative process for the performance work Room. Combining findings from the phenomenological explorations of her dancing body as well as from cultural analyses of the climate change debate by Dipesh Chakrabarty (2009), Claire Colebrook (2011, 2012), and Bruno Latour (2014), the author argues that only by fundamentally shifting the direction of the adaptation discourse – on scales from global to the personal – will we be able to build a site-adaptive performance strategy that resists the neoliberal drive towards ecological and economic precarity.

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