scholarly journals Why is everyone talking about climate change … again?

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Anna Szolucha
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Climate ◽  
Insight Into

In this short article, I reflect on the last 50 years of environmental mobilisations in Europe and ask why democracy is important for contemporary climate action. Although the current wave of climate protests seems to share many characteristics with its 1970s predecessors, there is also a sense that contemporary movements and campaigns present a new quality in the long history of combating global warming. Are there any lessons that can be drawn from the history of environmentalism that can help us understand the current condition of climate action? I hope that by putting the environmental movement in a historical perspective, we can gain an insight into the factors that play a decisive role in effecting socio-ecological change.

scholarly journals To exploit or not to exploit: The structure and development of arguments over the use of wetlands

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Tiina Korvela
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Legal Regimes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Arguments ◽  
Insight Into

This paper considers the discourse surrounding the exploitation of wetlands (also called marshlands, bogs, mires and peatlands) in Finland. The focus of the paper is on the development of the arguments used in the discourse – thus the paper also gives an insight into how the legal regimes concerning wetlands have developed. The arguments are analysed using the dualistic and deconstructive model developed in Critical Legal Studies by Martti Koskenniemi. The hypothesis is that, to some extent, the model developed for international law can be adapted to fit national laws, but that significant problems may still arise. Throughout the history of discourse on wetlands, legal arguments have essentially dealt with the conflict between the conservation of wetlands or their exploitation for peat, which is a source of energy. Three arguments are discussed in this paper: 1) The ‘sovereignty argument’; 2) The ‘no harm argument’; and 3) The ‘climate change argument’. The sovereignty argument has been dominant from the beginning of the industrialised production of peat, but the no harm argument has been steadily gaining weight. Interestingly, the climate change argument lacks traction in the discourse even though the importance of wetlands in adaptation to climate change is common knowledge. This paper argues that regional and national authorities use legislation and the no harm argument in innovative ways. These innovations may be useful for the aims underlying the climate change argument.

scholarly journals Die wording van ’n Suid-Afrikaanse kerkhistoriese bibliografie: ’n Historiese en bibliografiese oorsig

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-173
Author(s):  
J. W. Hofmeyr
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Select Bibliography ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

The making of a South African church historical bibliography: An historical and bibliographic survey The compilation of the History of the church in Southern Africa: a select bibliography of published material (compiled and edited by J W Hofmeyr and K E Cross) is discussed especially in historical perspective. The prime purpose of this article is to provide information both for the continuation of the project itself and to give for various purposes the outsider an insight into the compilation of a bibliography of this nature.

Vowels

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-144
Author(s):  
Warren Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Vowel Quantity

This chapter examines the vowels of MUE from a historical perspective. Following an overview of the vowel system of the dialect compared to those of the input and neighbouring varieties, it concentrates on three topics which give a detailed insight into the history of the dialect: vowel quality; vowel quantity; the lexical distribution of vowel phonemes. It finds that although the lexical distribution of vowel phonemes is mostly of English origin, their quality and, especially, quantity show considerable evidence of input from Scots.

Relationships, Climate Change, and the Robins of Spring

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Mikhaela E. Young
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Large Piece ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
Long Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Storytelling is a powerful way to explore climate change on a local level. Through listening to local elders, we get insight into the differences in weather patterns over a long period of time. More importantly, we gain insight into a broader picture of what climate, weather, and nature mean to human relationships, not only the relationship to weather, but to culture, myth, and life. By observing and listening closely, we learn to remember that nature speaks to us, is a large piece of the human spirit, and contains within itself a history of humankind.

scholarly journals Climate Change and Regulation in International and Regional Level, Especially the Built Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Putnoki
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Build Environment ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The article starts with a brief insight into the history of climate change, with a scope on the international and legal aspects of ever-changing regulations. The regional level is in the article is The European Union, as the only regional economic integration organization under the Kyoto Protocol. It deals with the United Nation’s international agreements like UNFCCC its Kyoto’s Protocol and the Post-Kyoto era. It also analyses the EU’s system in the climate change law with correspondence the international rules. Comparison between international and regional legislation in the climate change is used as a tool of analysis. Finally an insight is given into a special field in the climate change, the build environment, reflecting on the related United Nation’s recommendation and the EU’s regulation.

Flood Country

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily O'Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Significant Region

Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia. Even so, floods have often been experienced as natural disasters, which have led to major engineering schemes. Flood Country explores the contested and complex history of this region, examining the different ways in which floods have been understood and managed and some of the long-term consequences for people, rivers and ecologies. The book examines many tensions, ranging from early exchanges between Aboriginal people and settlers about the dangers of floods, through to long running disputes between graziers and irrigators over damming floodwater, and conflicts between residents and colonial governments over whose responsibility it was to protect townships from floods. Flood Country brings the Murray-Darling Basin's flood history into conversation with contemporary national debates about climate change and competing access to water for livelihoods, industries and ecosystems. It provides an important new historical perspective on this significant region of Australia, exploring how people, rivers and floods have re-made each other.

scholarly journals Taking Lessons from Silent Spring: Using Environmental Literature for Climate Change

Literature ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Craig A. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Environmental Literature ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Climate ◽  
Insight Into

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) created a new genre termed “science nonfiction literature.” This genre blended environmental science and narrative while ushering in a new era of awareness and interest for both. With the contemporary climate crisis becoming more dire, this article returns to Carson’s work for insight into ways to engage deniers of climate change and methods to propel action. Further, it investigates and evaluates the writing within Silent Spring by considering its past in our present. Using the corporate reception of Carson’s book as reference, this article also examines ways climate change opponents create misunderstandings and inappropriately deceive and misdirect the public. Through this analysis, connections are made that connect literature, science, and public engagement, which can engender a broader, more comprehensive awareness of the importance of environmental literature as a medium for climate awareness progress.

No Talk, Some Walk: Obama Administration First-Term Rhetoric on Climate Change and US International Climate Budget Commitments

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciela Kincaid ◽  
J. Timmons Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Foreign Assistance ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fast Start ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Congressional Research

This paper examines the climate rhetoric and climate action of the Obama administration in its first term. It first traces the trajectory of the term “climate change” as used in 1,908 speeches by administration officials from January 2008 to December 2011; after an apex in 2009, the phrase nearly disappeared. Second, the article details the history of US international climate funding since 2009. In the Obama administration's first budget alone (Fiscal Year 2010), dedicated climate change foreign assistance increased from $321 million to $1.008 billion. Using anonymous administration sources, “fast start finance” reports, and the Congressional Research Service, the paper details the numbers and behind-the-scenes details of President Obama's apparent determination to prioritize climate finance despite powerful congressional opposition. Although these seemingly contradictory trends in rhetoric and finance can be seen as cohering in a highly strategic, energy-focused “two-level game” by the administration, the program's longevity is endangered.

scholarly journals The othering of teacher training in Lebowa bantustan: A historical perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Seroto
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper, I focus on the history of teacher training for Africans in the former Lebowa bantustan. My discussion of this is informed by the theoretical concepts of othering and structural racialisation, which capture various prejudices such as segregation, marginalisation, hierarchisation, subjugation, and racism. I examined textual data for the period 1970-1994 which included unpublished material, Lebowa Department of Education reports, memoranda, administrative documents, and newspaper articles and journals housed in Limpopo Provincial Archives, Polokwane, to elicit meaning and gain insight into the othering of teacher training in Lebowa. I established that African teachers were othered from economic, educational, political, and technological power through the bantustan policy and that this othering was interconnected. For African teachers to be inferior, subjugated, and marginalised, they needed to be spatially isolated; they had to receive a segregated, racialised, gendered, and inferior curriculum. This meant that resources were inequitably allocated and distributed across racial groups. Further, I argue that to understand the underlying problem of teacher education and other related challenges, we need to interrogate processes, structures, relationships, and the interconnectedness of the various factors and systems that produced a particular outcome.

scholarly journals Klimatförändring och emotionshantering:

2015 ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Linda Soneryd ◽  
Åsa Wettergren
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Global Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Combat Climate Change

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The complexity of the issue, along with the breakdown of international negotiations of the UN Climate Change Conference in 2009, raise demands for new forms of mobilization and strategies. In this article, we discuss how strategies of environmental movements to combat climate change can be understood in relation to the ways in which the movement has been institutionalized in a national and global context. We base our analysis on environmental movement actors’ own reflections on their practices and organizational forms as well as previous research describing the history of environmentalism in Denmark. We conclude by discussing the implications in terms of the emotional strategies of the movement and whether climate justice as an issue has affected the strategies of the movement.

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