scholarly journals Carbon Policy as a Strategy to Jointly Address Climate Change, Prevent Wildfires and Biodiversity Loss: A Portugal Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Pacheco ◽  
João Claro
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Policy

scholarly journals Mind the gap: Coping with delay in environmental governance

AMBIO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1067-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Karlsson ◽  
Michael Gilek
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Goal Achievement ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Policy Review ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
New Framework

Abstract Gaps between public policy goals and the state of the environment are often significant. However, while goal failures in environmental governance are studied in a number of disciplines, the knowledge on the various causes behind delayed goal achievement is still incomplete. In this article we propose a new framework for analysis of delay mechanisms in science and policy, with the intention to provide a complementary lens for describing, analysing and counteracting delay in environmental governance. The framework is based on case-study findings from recent research focusing on goal-failures in policies for climate change, hazardous chemicals, biodiversity loss and eutrophication. It is also related to previous research on science and policy processes and their interactions. We exemplify the framework with two delay mechanisms that we consider particularly important to highlight—denial of science and decision thresholds. We call for further research in the field, for development of the framework, and not least for increased attention to delay mechanisms in environmental policy review and development on national as well as international levels.

scholarly journals Rural Community’s Livelihood Security and Perception of Climate Variability and Change to Better Address Climate Change Adaptation -Case Study in East Central Madagascar

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 634-648
Author(s):  
Bam H.R. TIANA
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Climate Variability And Change ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
East Central ◽  
Livelihood Security

Madagascar is exposed to a variety of natural hazards, including seasonal cyclones, floods and droughts that have severe impacts on the national economy, mainly dependent on agriculture. Due to these problems, the security of livelihoods is threatened and although Madagascar people had the historic ability to cope with these threats, it is of prime importance to consider climate change adaptation in a more holistic manner in the face of climate change and variability. However, for adaptation to be appropriately enacted there is a need to understand how local context and conditions are. For that, this study aims to understand livelihood security as well as rural community’s perception to climate variability and change and their impacts in order to better address climate change adaptation. The first step is to understand how local livelihoods are characterized, what local conditions are, and how they are related to occurring changes and impacts through a case study in Alaotra Region in East Central Madagascar. An analysis of livelihood resources (human, natural, social, physical and financial capital), livelihood strategies and outcomes was coupled with an investigation of communities’ perception on the climate variability and impacts on their lives and livelihoods. Findings showed that livelihoods of local communities, living mainly from agriculture and fisheries, are threatened by a degrading environment and related impacts, exacerbated by a changing climate. Households are facing climate extremes which directly affect their livelihoods, already characterized by limited assets and entitlements. Outputs from this study are believed to further contribute to understand the factors that need to be considered to better address adaptation strategies based on the current vulnerability and climate variability, both at present time and in the future.

scholarly journals Turning back the rising sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110245
Author(s):  
Vanessa Bowden ◽  
Jean-Pascal Gond ◽  
Daniel Nyberg ◽  
Christopher Wright
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Property Prices ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
The Relationship

Action on climate change continues to be hampered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local climate adaptation to sea level rise, we show how climate change science is translated into a self-referential theory focussed on property prices. Our analysis develops two mechanisms – enablement and theorization – to explain the relationship between theory performativity and power within a process of translation. This contributes to i) the performativity debate by showing how the constitution of power relations shapes theory performativity; ii) theories of power, by tracing the ways in which certain actors are able to enrol others and impact the authority of particular theories, and; iii) processes of translation by developing mechanisms for following the ways in which power and theory performativity interact. We conclude by arguing that a performative understanding of how power shapes beliefs is central to combat the failure to address climate change.

scholarly journals Climate change perception among Spanish undergraduates. A reception study on the combination of the local, global, gain and loss frames

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75
Author(s):  
Bienvenido León ◽  
Maxwell-T. Boykoff ◽  
Carmen Rodrigo-Jordán
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Change Perception ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Reception Study ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
Climate Change Perception ◽  
Gain Loss ◽  
Climate Change Attitudes

Climate change attitudes and perceptions vary significantly among countries and cultures through a host of factors. Within media content about climate change, framing is one of the most relevant elements. This research interrogated how framing combinations across local-global and gain-loss frames influence attitudes and perceptions about climate change. We examined varying framing approaches through case-study experimentation with university students in Spain (N = 120). Students viewed one of four videos, each one based on a different combination of frames before answering a set of survey questions, with the aim of testing (i) how do the combinations of the local-global and the gain-loss frames affect the perception of the seriousness of climate change and (ii) how do combinations of the four frames affect support for action to address climate change. Results indicate that the participants scored similar values, regarding the seriousness of climate change and the need to take action, regardless of the video they watched. This means that interaction effects and other contextual factors (e.g., previous environmental concerns) may limit efficacy of deliberately introduced frames more than previously considered. These findings help to further deepen and nuance possible explanations for wider discursive interactions that comprise our attitudes and perceptions of climate change.

Educational Innovation to Address Climate Change Issues

2022 ◽  
pp. 263-278
Author(s):  
Tania Ouariachi ◽  
Menno Van Dam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts

In recent years, we have seen an emerging trend: the application of recreational escape rooms to educational purposes to engage students in their learning environment. This trend also applies to higher education and to the complex issue of climate change. The objectives of this chapter are to revise literature in this domain and to share a case study for a digital and educational escape room related to climate change: “Escape Global Warming.” This digital escape room integrates the core concepts of climate change and global warming into a game to familiarize participants with this topic and with actions that can be taken to reduce and counteract the effects of climate change while entertaining. After playing, students acknowledge to being more knowledgeable about the issue and more motivated to learn.

Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss in Southeast Asia

2011 ◽  
pp. 303-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajendra P. Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
First Case ◽  
Lower Mekong Basin ◽  
The Face

Land degradation and biodiversity loss are important global change issues because of their enormous effect on the functioning of ecosystem. Despite the fact that there have been tremendous concerns on land degradation and biodiversity loss for nearly two decades, there is still the need of having a sound data and information base, specifically in developing countries. The need has been more pronounced in the face of climate change as these three issues are intricately interlinked. Southeast Asia is an important geographic region from all these perspectives, as it has high biodiversity on the verge of rapid loss, continuing rapid land degradation due to desire of higher economic development, and of climate change importance with a large tract of forest areas in the region. This chapter, first of all, examines general status of land degradation and biodiversity in the region and goes on presenting two case studies. The first case study, based on secondary data, presents land degradation assessment in the Lower Mekong Basin demonstrating the use of spatial data and technologies and various land degradation indicators. The second case study specifically documents plant diversity and examines the relationship of plant diversity with biomass and soil erosion by making use of field surveyed primary data. Both studies aim at producing additional information which can help make better landuse allocation and planning for ecosystem maintenance without compromising much on regional or local livelihood through production.

Health system adaptation to climate change: a Peruvian case study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Aracena ◽  
Marco Barboza ◽  
Victor Zamora ◽  
Oswaldo Salaverry ◽  
Doreen Montag
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
Regional Adaptation ◽  
A Priority

Abstract Despite mitigation attempts, the trajectory of climate change remains on an accelerated path, with devastating health impacts. As a response to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change call for National Adaptation Plans, Peru has developed a national and decentralized regional adaptation plans. The purpose of this article is to understand the role and priority status of health within the adaptation planning and process. Peru was used as a case study to analyse the policy process in the creation of adaptation plans, encompassing the need to address climate change impacts on health with a particular focus on marginalized people. An actor, content and context policy analyses were conducted to analyse 17 out of 25 regional adaptation plans, which are available. The national adaptation plans (2002, 2015) do not include health as a priority or health adaptation strategies. In a decentralized health care system, regional plans demonstrate an increased improvement of complexity, systematization and structure over time (2009–17). In general, health has not been identified as a priority but as another area of impact. There is no cohesiveness between plans in format, content, planning and execution and only a limited consideration for marginalized populations. In conclusion, the regional departments of Peru stand on unequal footing regarding adapting the health sector to climate change. Findings in the strategies call into question how mitigation and adaption to climate change may be achieved. The lack of local research on health impacts due to climate change and a particular focus on marginalized people creates a policy vacuum. The Peruvian case study resembles global challenges to put health in the centre of national and regional adaptation plans. In-depth cross-country analysis is still missing but urgently needed to learn from other experiences.

scholarly journals Actions for adaptation and mitigation to climate change: Madrid case study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Oquendo Di Cosola ◽  
Jorge Adán Sánchez-Reséndiz ◽  
Lorenzo Olivieri ◽  
Francesca Olivieri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Systemic Innovation ◽  
The City ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Systemic innovation must be the driving force behind actions to transform cities to address climate change. It includes transformations of environmental, social, economic, financial, technical, regulatory, and governance nature, supporting the permanent change of cities. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), can be part of the tools to address the challenges ahead. This research aims to define a framework of action in cities for the implementation of NBS, demonstrating the importance of quantifying its benefits in environmental and socio-economic terms, to boost public policy design and investment in this field. This work is divided into two parts. The first part, analyses some of the European measures in the field of sustainable development in cities, focusing the research on the case of Madrid. And in the second part, some case studies are presented to reflect the measures and actions taken to promote the implementation of NBS in the city of Madrid. As a result, the potential levers of change for the implementation of NBS are identified, highlighting the importance of quantifying their effects to demonstrate the potential value that can be generated within cities.

Local vs. Expert Perception of Climate Change

2013 ◽  
pp. 44-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Karen Baptiste
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
Mental Modeling ◽  
The Way

Local communities are known for having different and in some cases divergent perceptions of reality than experts. Particularly with respect to climate change, there is incongruence in the way that experts, namely scientists, view climate change and its effects and the way that this is perceived by laypersons, particularly those that are most impacted by climate change. But what are those differences and how exactly are these conceptualized? The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it examines the differences among three stakeholders (scientists, policy makers, and fishers) in their view of climate change and its impacts, using the case study of the fishing industry in Trinidad and Tobago. These views are mapped using the mental model approach and then compared in order to determine the best way to address climate change within a local setting. There is a clear difference in the way fishers in this study view climate change from the way local scientists view it. There is, however, some overlap between the perspective of the fishers and that of the policy maker. Moving from a position that all perspectives are equally important if there is to be a meaningful response to climate change, this chapter develops a set of procedures for mapping community perceptions of climate change on to those of scientists and policy makers. The second and ultimate objective is to look at the implication that the mental modeling approach has for diffusion, adoption, and technology transfer in response to climate change.

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