New issues, new forms of action? Climate change and environmental activism in Britain: Christopher Rootes

2012 ◽  
pp. 63-85
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Activism

Missing in Action: Experiences of women with climate journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zofeen Ebrahim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Female Journalists ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Missing In Action ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This booklet narrates the stories of five female journalists from Pakistan who are working on environment- and climate-change-related issues. Women are being disproportionately and adversely impacted by climate change and female journalists are uniquely placed to understand and share their stories. However, these journalists are ‘missing in action’ from the media in sharing their experiences of environmental activism and climate action. The publication covers a range of challenges journalists face, from limitations on mobility and harassment, to gender-based discrimination in media houses. It highlights why environmental issues sometimes make headlines while remaining dormant at others.

Social Media and Environmental Activism: Framing Climate Change on Facebook by Global NGOs

2020 ◽  
pp. 107554702097164
Author(s):  
Hong Tien Vu ◽  
Matthew Blomberg ◽  
Hyunjin Seo ◽  
Yuchen Liu ◽  
Fatemeh Shayesteh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Persuasive Messages ◽  
Impact Action ◽  
Practical Implications

Analyzing Facebook content produced by 289 global climate nonprofits from 18 countries, this study investigates these NGOs’ framing of climate change. Of the three protest frames, diagnostic was most popular. Of the three aspects of climate change, including impact, action, and efficacy, action was used most frequently, while efficacy was the least common. Messages refer to effects at the present time. NGOs from developed countries are more likely than those from developing nations to discuss climate actions. Climate impacts are more likely to appear in these NGOs’ persuasive messages than efficacy. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Geographies of Transition: Narrating environmental activism in an age of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Barr ◽  
Justin Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
New Form ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk

The growth of community-based Transition Town initiatives in countries like the UK, USA and Canada is popularly perceived to represent a broad, socially inclusive and grounded approach to tackling environmental problems in place-based communities. In focusing on resilience as a core theme, so-called re-localisation initiatives attempt to adopt consensus based approaches to decision making and to highlight the need for an ‘inner transition’ of the self that encourages closer connections between individuals and nature. In this way, Transition has been framed as a new form of social and environmental movement that is re-casting community and political relations for a low carbon and post ‘Peak oil’ future. Yet despite these emergent philosophies of Transition and the considerable scholarship being generated on the role and success of such initiatives, there is an urgent need to situate and analyse Transition within broader understandings of environmental activism. Using data from a two year research project on ‘Values in Transition’, this paper argues that the praxis and spatial complexity of Transition can be understood more deeply through a narrative lens. In mobilising critical scholarship on environmental activism, the paper calls for a ‘Transition Geographies’ that views re-localisation as a dynamic and complex coalescence of competing narratives that sit between traditional forms of environmental activism and directive initiatives for individual behaviour change. As such, the paper highlights the ways in which this new form of environmental activism is shaping praxis across space, and the implications this has for those advocating re-localisation as a strategy for tackling climate change and resource scarcity.

Worsening drought threatens Panama Canal

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Canal Water ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Reduced Water

Subject Canal climate threats. Significance The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that it will introduce a 10,000-dollar surcharge on ships over 125 feet (38.1 metres) in length, with effect from February 15. Other fees will also be applied to vessels depending on water levels at the time of transit. Recent droughts in areas around the canal have reduced water levels, restricting the number of vessels that can transit the waterway. The situation -- largely attributed to climate change -- threatens to deteriorate further over the coming years, undermining the canal’s reliability as a logistics and transport hub. Impacts Uncertainty over long-term canal revenue prospects may lead the government to rein in its spending plans. Canal water shortages are likely to boost environmental activism in Panama, not just related to the canal. The long-discussed Nicaragua canal would face similar water challenges, further reducing the likelihood that project will go ahead.

scholarly journals The Effect of Internationalization on Students’ Attitudes to Environmental Activism

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-359
Author(s):  
Ivanka Rajh ◽  
Zdravka Biočina
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Students ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Students Attitudes

In 2019 Greta Thunberg gave a speech at the UN Climate Action Summit on climate change. The survey presented in this paper was conducted among students studying at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (N = 99) in order to analyze their attitudes to this speech. The sample included students from Croatia as well as international students. Research questions covered the role of language, ecological awareness, age and education in the perception of the quality, the attractiveness of the speech, the use of ethos, pathos and logos, persuasiveness, and also influence potential. Generally, the results show statistically significant differences in perception and attitude between Croatian and international students.

scholarly journals Young Climate Protesters’ Mobilization Availability: Climate Marches and School Strikes Compared

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Rainsford ◽  
Clare Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Survey Responses

Although there is a developing strand of literature on young people’s participation in environmental activism, there have been few systematic comparisons of their participation in different forms of environmental activism. This article compares the participation of young people and their older counterparts in climate change marches and Global Climate Strikes (GCSs). The agential and structural factors that draw people into protest participation are, in general terms, well recognized. However, it is also recognized that the factors that lead to particular types of protest on certain issues might not be the same as those that lead to different types of protest on different issues. In this article, we keep the protest issue constant (climate change), and make comparisons across different forms of climate protest (marches and school strikes). We coin the term “mobilization availability”, which is a useful way to understand why young people are differentially mobilized into different types of climate change protest. Our notion of mobilization availability invites scholars to consider the importance of the interplay of the supply and demand for protest in understanding who protests and why. We analyse data collected using standardized protest survey methodology (n = 643). In order to account for response rate bias, which is an acute problem when studying young people’s protest survey responses, we weighted the data using propensity score adjustments. We find that the youth-oriented supply of protest evoked by GCS mobilized higher numbers of young people into climate protest than did the more adult-dominated climate marches. GCS did this by providing accessible forms of protest, which reduced the degree of structural availability required to encourage young people to protest on the streets, and by emotionally engaging them. Indeed, the young people we surveyed at the GCSs were considerably more angry than their adult counterparts, and also angrier than young people on other climate protests. Our conceptual and empirical innovations make this paper an important contribution to the literature on young people’s political participation.

Turkish government may continue neglecting environment

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Flash Floods ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Regional Conflicts ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Wildfire Season

Significance Long droughts and longer summers due to climate change are lengthening the wildfire season. Yet wildfires are just one in a series of environmental crises that highlight the growing damage to the country’s environment not just from climate change but also from factors related to government policies. Impacts Prolonged droughts, frequent heatwaves and flash floods are causing severe damage to sensitive ecosystems, agriculture and fishing. Turkey is also exposed to the indirect effects of climate change, which contributes to regional conflicts and creates refugees. Criminalisation of environmental activism and repression of protests are raising social tensions and contributing to political polarisation.

scholarly journals Positive Youth Action Towards Climate Change

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Buttigieg ◽  
Paul Pace
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Past Life ◽  
Environmental Organisation ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This study focuses on the experiences of young people who are leaders of change in the environmental field. This study views environmental activism as a personal commitment towards pro-environmental behaviour. The motivations and challenges of such work are viewed as important to learn more not only about volunteering in environmental organisations, but also about pro-environmental behaviour. The main research problem was to explore these individualsí present and past life experiences, in the light of their activism, towards the issue of climate change. Narrative inquiry was chosen as a methodology for this research as it gives importance to experience and facilitates the study of an issue in all of its wholeness and complexity. The research involved in-depth interviews with three participants as well as living alongside the participants in an effort to build a relationship with them and to experience being an environmental activist. The participants were members of a local environmental organisation ñ Friends of the Earth (Malta). The outcomes of this study provide an opportunity for reflection on the factors that affect pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour and their implications on environmental education. This reflection will enable informed efforts to engage more young people in environmental activism. From the narratives produced, it is clear that there is no single factor that is optimal for promoting pro-environmental behaviour and environmental activism. These are, in fact, determined by a combination of interrelated factors.

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