scholarly journals Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 338 (6108) ◽  
pp. 788-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Kennett ◽  
S. F. M. Breitenbach ◽  
V. V. Aquino ◽  
Y. Asmerom ◽  
J. Awe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Systems

scholarly journals Afterword: Reflections on Humanities Engagements with the Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Histories, Representations, Practices

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Julie Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Representational Practices

Understandings of, and responses to, climate change are culturally and historically specific, informed and shaped by a complex set of intersecting social, historical, economic and political systems and representational practices [...]

scholarly journals Constructing resilience at three scales: The 100 Resilient Cities programme, Durban's resilience journey and water resilience in the Palmiet Catchment

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Sutherland ◽  
Debra Roberts ◽  
Jo Douwes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Global City ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Physical Hazards ◽  
Resilience Thinking ◽  
The World

Resilience is a ‘re-emerging concept’ which is being applied to deal with the shocks and stresses facing society and the environment as a result of both human induced and physical hazards. Resilience thinking is shaping policy and practice across the world through global programmes such as the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)'s Making Cities Resilient Campaign; UN Habitat's City Resilience Profiling Programme; and Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100 RC). The global post-2015 sustainable development and climate change frameworks and related agreements all have resilience embedded in them. However, the concept of resilience remains contested, with resilience reflecting a continuum of approaches from those that are more deliberative, political, systemic, relational and transformational, to those that are more consultative, post-political, systems based, sectoral and instrumental. Questions of how resilience is being constructed, by whom and for whom therefore need to be explored. This paper focuses on the construction of resilience at three scales: The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) programme (global), Phase 1 of Durban's 100RC journey (city), and the Palmiet Catchment Rehabilitation Project (sub-catchment within a city). It presents the different approaches adopted by global, city-scale and local programmes to build resilience using different framings, approaches and methodologies.

scholarly journals More learning, less activism: Narratives of childhood in Australian media representations of the School Strike for Climate

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Nita Alexander ◽  
Theresa Petray ◽  
Ailie McDowall
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Climate Events ◽  
Counter Argument

Abstract The School Strike for Climate campaign led to public discussion about children’s political participation. Children are generally excluded from formal political systems, however this campaign challenges mainstream attitudes that children are not sufficiently competent to participate in politics. This paper presents an analysis of Australian mainstream media representations of adult responses to the School Strike for Climate events held in Australia in March 2019. When analysed against theories of childhood, two primary narratives are reflected in what adults said about children’s participation in the campaign. Anticipatory narratives focus on children appropriately developing into adults, and are represented by the notion that strikers should be in school, be punished for missing school, and are ‘just kids’ who should not be listened to. Protectionist narratives seek to shelter children from adult matters, suggesting strikers were brainwashed and raising welfare concerns. Neither of these narratives regard children as citizens capable of political voice, despite these children acting prefiguratively to create a world in which their civic participation is valued. Social movement theories of prefiguration are also explored in this paper, providing a counter argument to suggestions that children have no political agency and should be excluded from activism and discussions regarding climate change.

scholarly journals Vinay Lal, The Fury of COVID-19: The Politics, Histories, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus, New Dehli: Pan Macmillan Publishing, 2020.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. iv-xi
Author(s):  
Syed sami Raza
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

This book is composed of a set of disparate essays that are grounded in history, political economy, and philosophy. These essays focus on a range of topics addressing different dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic. They include history of pandemics, governmental discourse on health and practical strategies, the role of WHO, neo-liberal economic order and consumerism, social order and human attitudes, nationalism and immigration, and global warming and climate change. Shedding light on these various dynamics, Lal exposes the high claims made by the powerful states like the US, the UK, and European states about their superior political systems, health care programs, and welfare services.

scholarly journals Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region

2020 ◽  
pp. 002234332091077
Author(s):  
Tobias Ide ◽  
Miguel Rodriguez Lopez ◽  
Christiane Fröhlich ◽  
Jürgen Scheffran
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
The Public

As hydro-meteorological hazards are predicted to become more frequent and intense in the future, scholars and policymakers are increasingly concerned about their security implications, especially in the context of ongoing climate change. Our study contributes to this debate by analysing the pathways to water-related conflict onset under drought conditions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region between 1996 and 2009. It is also the first such analysis that focuses on small-scale conflicts involving little or no physical violence, such as protests or demonstrations. These nonviolent conflicts are politically relevant, yet understudied in the literature on climate change and conflict, environmental security, and political instability. We employ the method of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to integrate quantitative and qualitative data at various scales (national, regional, local) for a sample of 34 cases (17 of which experienced conflict onset). Our findings show that pre-existing cleavages and either autocratic political systems or cuts of the public water supply are relevant predictors of nonviolent, water-related conflict onset during droughts. Grievances deeply embedded into socio-economic structures in combination with a triggering event like a drought or water cuts are hence driving such water-related conflicts, especially in the absence of proper political institutions. We thus argue that drought–conflict links are highly context-dependent even for nonviolent, local conflicts, hence challenging determinist narratives that claim direct interlinkages between climate change, hydro-meteorological disasters and conflict.

Do Differences in Climate Change Policy Reflect Different Cultures and Vice Versa?

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
Eberhard Jochem
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Scientific Results

The Pre-Kyoto period and the outcome of the Kyoto conference demonstrated significant differences between the climate change policy in the United States and that in Western Europe. Although scientific methods and knowledge are universal and globally available, the scientific results on climate change are taken up differently by the political systems on each side of the Atlantic. Different preferences for the results of economic modelling may be due to differences in the expectations of the average American/European of the government's responsibility, different reactions in cases of uncertainty, in the political system, the openness of public controversial discussions, and in the lobbyist intensity of interest groups. Both industrialized regions, however, face the problem of the short-term orientation of market economies and of the voters of representative national democracies versus the very long-term necessities of climate change policy. The different views and traditions on each side of the Atlantic could be used for a very fruitful process of global climate change policy.

Comparative Climate Change Policy Networks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Cross National

This chapter explains the method of policy network (PN) analysis and its benefits (and limits) for cross-national comparative analysis. The purpose of the PN approach is to understand how the structure of relationships among organizations engaged in a policy domain affects the content of policy and outcomes. The chapter illustrates the use of the PN method with reference to the ongoing cross-national project Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (Compon). Global climate change constitutes an (un)naturally occurring quasi-experiment; in the face of a common threat, the various societies have exhibited divergent responses to reducing the cause, carbon emissions. This research project and network method can provide knowledge helpful to global negotiations as well as open up new vistas on thorny theoretical questions about the behavior and outputs of political systems.

10. Environmentalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorron Otter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the extent to which environmentalism has emerged as a viable ideology in its own right. It begins by charting the origins of the rise of the environment as an issue in relation to global and national political systems as well as the point at which it might be possible to identify the emergence of a distinct Green agenda. It then analyses the range of environmental thinking and the embedded critique, ideal, and programme that defines Green ideology, with particular emphasis on classical liberalism and neo-liberalism, Green conservatism, eco-socialism, social ecology, and eco-feminism. It also explores the impact that Green policies have had in shaping the policy agenda and concludes by looking at the main challenges that face the consolidation of Green thinking and action. To illustrate these various issues, the chapter presents case studies, one of which relates to global climate change.

Climate Change: What Should Liberals Do?

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 325-348
Author(s):  
Mikayla Novak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Classical Liberal ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Existential Problem

Ecological sustainability issues, including the desire to ameliorate climate change impacts upon economic, social and political systems, figure prominently in twenty-first century public discourses. Despite growing community agreement over the need to avert the worst effects of climate change, a perceived lack of political progress in advancing multilateral climate-change policy is fueling dissatisfaction over the capacity of technocratic administration to deliver solutions to tackle this deep-seated and, for some, existential problem. We draw upon classical liberal insights, and utilize the contextually-aware systems approach of “entangled political economy,” to consider a constructive case for actions on climate change.

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