‘This is the way the world ends, not …?’: On performance compulsion and climate change

This report uses a critique of the ontology of research on climate change and armed conflict to advance a positive and performative account of the ways in which peace could be sustained and expanded through a changing climate. Focussing on research into the relationships between climate change and armed conflict and peace, it argues that recent debates about the effect of climate change on conflagrations stem from deeper assumptions about the way the world is and can be known. The report then builds an alternative framing of peace as a phenomenon that is resilient to climate change by layering knowledge about the conditions under which peace prevails through environmental change with that on environmental peace-building and on the intersections between resilience and security.

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Intensification of water management during climate change

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/900/1/012029 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 900 (1) ◽

pp. 012029

Author(s):

F Ondrasik ◽

S Krocova ◽

A Thomitzek

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Water Management ◽

Scientific Progress ◽

Water Source ◽

Raw Water ◽

Current Management ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Intensive Use ◽

The World ◽

The Way

Abstract The current management of the world’s fresh water resources is not optimal. Due to the uneven distribution of water, many parts of the world are entering a passive water management balance due to climate change and the growth of the human population. The Czech Republic is one of the countries with a passive balance. With ongoing climate change, it will be difficult in many regions to maintain sufficient raw water for technological and technical purposes without intensification in the water management process. Scientific progress and current technical possibilities offer ways to increase the way water is treated and the possibilities of re-using the realized water in the area of its use for various purposes, from the water source to the final cycle. One of these possibilities and the way of intensive use of water is dealt with in the following article.

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Potential Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Suitable in the Philippine Setting

Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues (IJSEI) ◽

10.47540/ijsei.v2i1.119 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Ericson E. Coracero

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Adaptation Strategies ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

The People ◽

The World ◽

Potential Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation Strategies ◽

The Way

Climate change is one of the most challenging environmental issues being faced by the world. Its effects are slowly getting worse and unbearable. Adaptation techniques are important to learn how to deal and live with climate change, and somehow address it. This paper provides possible practices and ways of adaptation to climate change that can be of help to the people. These ways include three major components: use of technical practices and strategies, execution of site-based programs, and raising people’s awareness and sense of responsibility. These practices can help address the problem and improve the way of living of people while also improving the environment’s situation.

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The Climate of Publicity

10.1093/oso/9780190055349.003.0007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 151-173

Author(s):

Melissa Aronczyk ◽

Maria I. Espinoza

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Wicked Problem ◽

The World ◽

The Media ◽

Strategic Resource ◽

The Way

Chapter 6, The Climate of Publicity, examines the media plans, mobilization efforts, and marketing devices that climate advocates use to promote “the planet” to various publics as an object of concern. While PR appears in the world as a neutral technology of legitimation, this chapter demonstrates the degree to which the practice is culturally determined and the way its conception of publics as situational, contingent, and self-interested plays out. Drawing on interviews with environmental advocates, movement leaders, NGOs, and climate communication teams, we show how PR, conceptualized by environmentalists as a strategic resource against established systems of power, ultimately reproduces those systems of power, leaving unchanged the substance of response to the “super wicked” problem of climate change.

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The California Code

Boom A Journal of California ◽

10.1525/boom.2016.6.1.4 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 4-11

Author(s):

Keith Schneider

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Operating Systems ◽

First Century ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

The World ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Slow Collision ◽

The Way

Underlying so much of the economic and ecological turmoil unfolding in California and the rest of the world now is a slow collision between the operating systems of the resource-wasting, vertically managed twentieth century and the much more volatile ecological and economic conditions of the twenty-first century. This essay argues that California is leading the way in defining a new code to deal responsibly-and profitably-with climate change and its effects.

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The Thing Called Environment: What It Is and How to Be Concerned With It

Oxford Literary Review ◽

10.3366/olr.2010.0008 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 109-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Gert Goeminne ◽

Karen François

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Political Space ◽

Bruno Latour ◽

The World ◽

Science And Politics ◽

Independent Entity ◽

Matters Of Concern ◽

Sustainability Challenges ◽

The Way

This paper wants to think beyond the science-politics divide that is omnipresent in sustainability discourse. With Bruno Latour, we investigate if and how decomposing matters of fact and recomposing them back as matters of concern can open up a scientific-political space in which sustainability challenges can be addressed in an adequate manner. By connecting Latour's constructivist account of science in action with Rudolf Boehm's concept of topical truth, we aim to lighten up the normative-political entanglement between science and politics, facts and values. Rather than conceiving of knowledge in terms of representations of the world, a constructivist topical perspective emphasises the socio-material practices from and within which these representations arise. Such a view then also changes the way we think about ourselves and our place in the world in fundamental ways: the world now becomes something that we are embedded in and part of rather than something we are detached from and merely observers of, as representationalism suggests. In this way, decomposing environmental matters of fact such as climate change, which have never been a human-independent entity out there to begin with, allows to adequately recompose them as societal matters of concern, which they have been from the very beginning.

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Adaptation Lived as a Story

Nature and Culture ◽

10.3167/nc.2018.130302 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 322-355 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicole Klenk

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Narrative Methods ◽

Cultural Constructs ◽

The World ◽

The Way

Within the field of climate change adaptation research, “stories” are usually simply mined for data, developed as communication and engagement technologies, and used to envision different futures. But there are other ways of understanding people’s narratives. This article explores how we can move away from understanding stories as cultural constructs that represent a reality and toward understanding them as the way in which adaptation is lived. The article investigates questions such as the following: As climate adaptation researchers, what can and should we do when we are told unsolicited stories? How can storytelling, as a way of life rather than as a source of data, inform and elaborate scientific approaches to adaptation research and planning? In this article, I move away from the literature that seeks to develop narrative methods in adaptation science. Instead, I focus on stories that we do not elicit and the world-making practice of storytelling.

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Why do cities get involved in climate governance? Insights from Canada and Italy

Environnement urbain ◽

10.7202/1036221ar ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Emiliano Scanu ◽

Geneviève Cloutier

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Multilevel Governance ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Climate Governance ◽

The World ◽

Climate Action ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

National Governments ◽

The Way

Cities the world over are tackling climate change, even when their national governments are largely inactive in this area. Which factors trigger their implication? Through which kinds of policies do cities become engaged in this issue? Based on previous studies and on urban and multilevel governance theoretical frameworks, this article suggests some answers. An original analytical grid is developed and used to compare two cases in Canada and Italy. The results confirm that the way in which municipalities respond to climate change largely depends on their local and multilevel contexts, as well as on the potential benefits of climate action.

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Becoming Politicized

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000311 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 225 (4) ◽

pp. 324-335 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dimitrios Barkas ◽

Xenia Chryssochoou

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

Political Socialization ◽

Greek Society ◽

Economic Vulnerability ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Identity Model ◽

Beliefs About The Future ◽

Of Greece ◽

The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

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The World Economic Forum Principles on "Climate Governance on Corporate Boards": can soft law help to face climate change around the world?

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ◽

10.3280/cgrds1-2019oa8509 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 37-55

Author(s):

Sabrina Bruno

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

South Africa ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Boards Of Directors ◽

Soft Law ◽

Corporate Boards ◽

World Economic Forum ◽

Financial Factor ◽

The World ◽

World Economic

Climate change is a financial factor that carries with it risks and opportunities for companies. To support boards of directors of companies belonging to all jurisdictions, the World Economic Forum issued in January 2019 eight Principlescontaining both theoretical and practical provisions on: climate accountability, competence, governance, management, disclosure and dialogue. The paper analyses each Principle to understand scope and managerial consequences for boards and to evaluate whether the legal distinctions, among the various jurisdictions, may undermine the application of the Principles or, by contrast, despite the differences the Principles may be a useful and effective guidance to drive boards' of directors' conduct around the world in handling climate change challenges. Five jurisdictions are taken into consideration for this comparative analysis: Europe (and UK), US, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The conclusion is that the WEF Principles, as soft law, is the best possible instrument to address boards of directors of worldwide companies, harmonise their conduct and effectively help facing such global emergency.

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