The Process of Naming: Deconstructing Terminology Used to Conceptualise the Migration and Climate Change Nexus

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-136
Author(s):  
Sarah Louise Nash
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Discursive Constructions

This chapter examines what language is used to label the phenomenon of the migration and climate change nexus, and the quirks and discontinuities of this language use. The nodal point of the phenomenon of the migration and climate change nexus is key to the discussions in this book, for without it the policy-making discourse on migration and climate change would not be possible. The construction of the phenomenon in such a way that it has become accepted as existing, valid, and fixed in some way has allowed for the discourse to be reproduced and for policy-making endeavours to be undertaken. However, there is still a great deal of contention surrounding what the phenomenon is, with it meaning different things to different people. The result is that there is no single clear term that is attached to this phenomenon, with a plethora of language sharing the same discursive space. Equally, the different terms carry different nuances of meaning, which are also shifting as the discourse develops, or depending on who employs the term. The chapter analyses three different discursive constructions that are all prominent in international policy making, before turning to four additional concepts that are also occupying the discursive space.

A Global and Intergenerational Storm

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-38
Author(s):  
Kristina Diprose ◽  
Gill Valentine ◽  
Robert M. Vanderbeck ◽  
Chen Liu ◽  
Katie Mcquaid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Human Sense

This chapter situates the INTERSECTION programme of research within wider international debates regarding the relationship between consumption and climate change. It explores how this relationship is addressed in arguments for environmental justice and sustainable development, and how it is reflected in international policy-making. This discussion highlights how climate change is typically cast as both an international and intergenerational injustice, or the convergence of a ‘global storm’ and an ‘intergenerational storm’. This chapter also situates the original contribution of the book within recent social science scholarship that explores how people live with a changing climate, advocating a ‘human sense’ of climate and social change, and outlines the main themes of the subsequent empirical chapters.

Struggles to Locate Mobile People at the Centre of the Migration and Climate Change Nexus

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Sarah Louise Nash
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
The People

This chapter focuses on the second nodal point in the policy-making discourse on migration and climate change, which is the people who are at the centre of the phenomenon analysed in the previous chapter. People are also central to this discourse, for without people whose mobilities are in some way being affected, the abstract phenomenon of the migration and climate change nexus would remain as such, an abstract phenomenon. However, this is not to say that an easily identifiable community of affected people exists or that the lives of those people who are perceived as being affected by the nexus can be slotted into existing systems for understanding and classifying people on the move. One commonality shared by the people at the centre of the migration and climate change nexus is the exceptionality that is created around them. The basis of this exceptionality being identified as movement reveals a sedentary bias underlying the conceptualisation of the migration and climate change nexus.

scholarly journals International Norms and Domestic Structures

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Ryan Lebans ◽  
Lauren Peirce ◽  
Kevin Verberne
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Sharp Line ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Climate Change Issue ◽  
International Importance

The traditional conception of watertight compartmentalization between “domestic” and “international” policy issues is simply no longer realistic. The advent of globalization has fundamentally altered how we perceive of policy-making. as Sidney Tarrow put it, “[i]n today’s world, we can no more draw a sharp line between domestic and international politics than we can understand national politics in the United states apart from its local roots” (Tarrow, 2005: 2). The rise of the international importance of the climate change issue is perhaps the most prominent example of the breakdown of the traditional local versus global policy distinction.

scholarly journals Creating New Norms on Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Displacement: International Developments 2010–2013

Refuge ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane McAdam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Catalytic Effect ◽  
National Level ◽  
International Policy ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
And Migration

This article provides an account of attempts at the inter- national level to develop a normative framework relating to climate change and migration from late 2010 to mid- 2013. It traces the “catalytic effect” of paragraph 14(f) of the Cancún Adaptation Framework (adopted in December 2010), through to the concerted, but ultimately unsuccessful effort of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2011 to get states to agree to the formulation of a “global guiding framework” on displacement relating to climate change and natural disasters. Finally, the article discusses the creation of the state-led Nansen Initiative in late 2012—a tentative “first step” towards international policy-making in this field—and the outcomes of its first sub-regional consultation in the Pacific in May 2013.

A Province under Pressure: Climate Change Policy in Alberta

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Brendan Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Reduce Emissions

AbstractAlberta is responsible for over a third of Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Reducing the country's emissions requires policies and initiatives that reduce emissions in the province. Yet the study of provincial climate change policy in Canada has largely focused on lower-emitting provinces like British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario. This article argues that Alberta is best understood as a “reluctant actor” on climate change, whose policies are influenced by decisions and pressures from outside its borders. The literature on Canadian-American environmental policy making and international policy transfer are used to explore provincial GHG targets and carbon pricing policies. The article finds that Alberta's 2002 targets and Specified Gas Emitters Regulation were determined by economic competitiveness and leakage concerns, while the adoption of new GHG targets in 2008 and a carbon tax was the result of policy transfer through political bandwagoning and the desire for reputational benefits.

The Finnish Climate Change Act: Architecture, Functions, and Challenges

Climate Law ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 301-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismo Pölönen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Term Energy ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
The Cost

The article examines the key features and functions of the proposed Finnish Climate Change Act (fcca). It also analyses the legal implications of the Act and the qualities and factors which may limit its effectiveness. The paper argues that, despite its weak legal implications, the fcca would provide the regulatory preconditions for higher-quality climate policy-making in Finland, and it has the capacity to play an important role in national climate policy. The fcca would deliver regulatory foundations for systematic and integrated climate policy-making, also enabling wide public scrutiny. The proposed model leaves room for manifold climate-policy choices in varying societal and economical contexts. The cost of dynamic features is the relalow predictability in terms of sectorial paths on emission reductions. Another relevant challenge relates to the intended preparation of overlapping mid-term energy and climate plans with instruments of the fcca.

scholarly journals The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: Solving Rubik’s Cube in Policy and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Diego A. Cimino
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Rubik's Cube ◽  
Rubik’S Cube

Historically, the 20’s of each of the last centuries proved to be challenging years, where moments of historical opportunities were followed by daunting global difficulties. The 20’s of this 21st Century clearly followed the same historical destiny, with still an uncertain ending. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the geopolitical, economic, social and environmental complexities of today’s world appeared as inter-connected as ever before. The aim of this paper is to analyze most discussed nexuses in the international policy-making space, the so called “Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus” or “Triple-Nexus”, referred to the gradual coordination, cooperation, integration and interaction of humanitarian, development and peace actions and actors at all levels.

scholarly journals Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Florida: Estimates from Two Studies

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Borisova ◽  
Norman Breuer ◽  
Roy Carriker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Climate Change Projections ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

FE787, a 12-page fact sheet by Tatiana Borisova, Norman Breuer, and Roy Carriker, focuses on one piece of the policy-making puzzle related to climate change: possible economic costs for the state of Florida associated with climate change projections. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Food and Resource Economics, December 2008. FE787/FE787: Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Florida: Estimates from Two Studies (ufl.edu)

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