Climate literacy in the political forum using Canada as a case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Galvez ◽  
Nick Zrinyi ◽  
Karine Péloffy ◽  
Stéphane Laviolette
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Corporate Influence ◽  
The World ◽  
Crony Capitalism ◽  
Climate Literacy ◽  
The Public Sphere

<p>Evidence-based policy is still lacking in decision-making in Canada and around the world. As much of the world now faces concurrent crises among which are climate change, a global pandemic, and rising wealth inequality, the relationship between politicians and scientists is more important than ever. Climate literacy among office-holders, public servants, and regulators is critical for ushering in change and much needed transformation. Using Canada as a case study, this presentation from an engineer-turned-politician will discuss (1) the progress that has been made in climate literacy, with particular attention to its evolution in the political forum and the role of politicians, (2) a discussion of Canada’s national and the global response to climate change and its link with the COVID-19 pandemic, (3) the climate literacy in the public sphere and the obstacles to its health including undue corporate influence and disinformation. Politicians have an ethical duty to uphold the interests of their constituents, a duty that extends to the environment and to future generations; best-available science rather than the allures of crony-capitalism must win out the tug-of-war to realize that duty.</p>

scholarly journals Climate Change in Cameroon Political Discourse: A Case Study of Paul Biya’s COP21 Speech

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Badiang Oloko
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Global Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Global Concern

The management of and the concern for climate change have been occupying a growing space in public debates the recent years. The various challenges which are linked to climate change can be said to have become a global concern as there have been mobilizations from institutions and persons that work in different fields – science, politics and even arts. Frameworks have been developed over the years to enable people from all these diverse fields to meet and discuss this issue which has a direct impact on the daily life of societies all over the world. The most important of such frames is the Conference of the Parties (COP) organised by the United Nations, where people from various fields meet to discuss what is at stake and the measures that can be or should be taken in order to have a coordinated and global response to the challenges the world faces due to climate change. Language and language use are therefore relevant when when we try to figure out what is said and by whom in the debate on climate. The present paper seeks to give an insght into the political discourse on climate (change) with a special focus on Cameroon.The speech made by Paul Biya during the COP21 can thus serve as an example to identify the voices that can interact within one speech the relations between some of these voices and that of the speaker. The discursive polyphony postulated by Gjerstad (2001) can therefore be relevant in such a project. Meanwhile, it will be based here on two approaches which fall within the frame of polyphony: the ScaPoLine and the Praxématique. The theoretical challenge is therefore to view wether these two approaches can be put together and how this can be done, in a bid to narrow the scope of what a discursive polyphony can be.

scholarly journals The Effect of Islamic Revolution on the Muslim’s Intellectual Schools Case Study of Libya and Tunisia

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jaseb Nikfar ◽  
Ali Mohammadi ◽  
Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi ◽  
Alireza Samiee Esfahani
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
General Direction ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Islamic Values

Nowadays the discussion of intellectual schools in the world, especially in the north of Africa is very important for the political analysts. The intellectual roots that existed in these regions from the beginning of independence were more toward the Islam. These roots mostly revealed themselves after the victory of Islamic revolution. The formation of Iran’s Islamic revolution on the top of west and east blocks’ mutuality was a paradigm of general direction of religions and Islamic values for forming the government. This article uses description- analytic method to investigate the effects of Islamic revolution on the Muslim’s intellectual schools in the north of Africa. Two main questions are How and in what direction has the Islamic revolution happening affected the Muslim’s intellectual schools in Libya and Tunisia? Findings of the research shows that with regards to the Muslim’s intellectual backgrounds that before the Islamic revolution existed, in these countries Islamic revolution caused the reinforcement and doubled motivation for these groups. But, yet the reinforcement of the activity of these groups caused their mutuality with the government and increase of violence and insecurity.

scholarly journals ‘Dirty little secret’: Journalism, privacy and the case of Sharleen Spiteri

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Morton
Keyword(s):  
Unprotected Sex ◽  
Recent History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
The World ◽  
Explicit Reference

In both the Australian and British debates about media ethics and accountability, a key question about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal was whether or not the law should provide stronger protection for individuals from invasion of their privacy by news organisations. There is no explicit reference to privacy in the terms of reference of either Britain’s Leveson or Australia’s Finkelstein inquiries. It can safely be said, however, that invasions of personal privacy by NOTW journalists were an important element in the political atmospherics which lead to their establishment. This article also asks where that dividing line should be drawn. However, it approaches the issue of privacy from a rather different perspective, drawing on a case study from relatively recent history involving Sharleen Spiteri, an HIV+ sex worker who caused a national scandal when she appeared on television in Australia in 1989 and revealed that she sometimes had unprotected sex with her clients.

scholarly journals The Conditional Sink: Counterfactual Display in the Valuation of a Carbon Offsetting Reforestation Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véra Ehrenstein ◽  
Fabian Muniesa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Carbon Offsetting ◽  
The World ◽  
Prospective Assessment ◽  
Change Mitigation

This paper examines counterfactual display in the valuation of carbon offsetting projects. Considered a legitimate way to encourage climate change mitigation, such projects rely on the establishment of procedures for the prospective assessment of their capacity to become carbon sinks. This requires imagining possible worlds and assessing their plausibility. The world inhabited by the project is articulated through conditional formulation and subjected to what we call “counterfactual display”: the production and circulation of documents that demonstrate and con!gure the counterfactual valuation. We present a case study on one carbon offsetting reforestation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We analyse the construction of the scene that allows the “What would have happened” question to make sense and become actionable. We highlight the operations of calculative framing that this requires, the reality constraints it relies upon, and the entrepreneurial conduct it stimulates.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Philip Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Climate History ◽  
Accurate Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Dimensions ◽  
Better Than

My own interest in the topics of this book dates back a good many years. In fact, it predates the emergence of the modern field of climate history, or the identification of global warming as an incipient menace. In saying that, I am claiming no status as a prodigy, still less a prophet. Rather, in my teenage years, I read a great deal of speculative fiction, science fiction, in which themes of climate change and cataclysm have long percolated, at least since the latter years of the nineteenth century. We can debate how accurate the scientific analyses or predictions were in many of these works—in many cases, the level of accurate knowledge was minimal—but those works had the inordinate advantage of thinking through the human and cultural consequences of catastrophe, commonly speculating about religious dimensions. Obviously, some works succeeded better than others in that regard, but the essential project was critically important. If we are foretelling that the world will be assailed by lethal menaces, then we cannot fail to go on to imagine what the political or cultural consequences would or should be....

Misguided Ancients

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Kathleen Wellman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Family Values ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Arguments ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Political Right

Although the ancient Greeks and Romans have long been appreciated as foundations for Western civilization, for these textbooks, the Greeks’ philosophy, gods, and immorality tar them as godless humanists. Nonetheless, the Greeks and the Romans allow these curricula to introduce several key social, political, and moral arguments. They assess whether ancient civilizations implemented the “family values” of the political right as it emerged in the 1970s. Thus the Greeks were commendable in excluding women from the public sphere and the Romans for their strong patriarchal families. But Rome fell when it failed to maintain family values. These textbooks disparage the Romans to downplay their influence on the American founding. Furthermore, the rise of Islam reveals the presence of Satan in the world. These curricula’s repudiation of the classical tradition reflects not only contemporary concerns of the religious right but also American anti-intellectualism.

scholarly journals Work-based learning as a catalyst for sustainability: a review and prospects

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Wall ◽  
Ann Hindley ◽  
Tamara Hunt ◽  
Jeremy Peach ◽  
Martin Preston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Module ◽  
Climate Literacy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the continuing dearth of scholarship about the role of work-based learning in education for sustainable development, and particularly the urgent demands of climate literacy. It is proposed that forms of work-based learning can act as catalysts for wider cultural change, towards embedding climate literacy in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws data from action research to present a case study of a Climate Change Project conducted through a work-based learning module at a mid-sized university in the UK. Findings Contrary to the predominantly fragmented and disciplinary bounded approaches to sustainability and climate literacy, the case study demonstrates how a form of work-based learning can create a unifying vision for action, and do so across multiple disciplinary, professional service, and identity boundaries. In addition, the project-generated indicators of cultural change including extensive faculty-level climate change resources, creative ideas for an innovative mobile application, and new infrastructural arrangements to further develop practice and research in climate change. Practical implications This paper provides an illustrative example of how a pan-faculty work-based learning module can act as a catalyst for change at a higher education institution. Originality/value This paper is a contemporary call for action to stimulate and expedite climate literacy in higher education, and is the first to propose that certain forms of work-based learning curricula can be a route to combating highly bounded and fragmented approaches, towards a unified and boundary-crossing approach.

scholarly journals Origins, Benefits and the Political Basis of Agroecology

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Colin Ray Anderson ◽  
Janneke Bruil ◽  
M. Jahi Chappell ◽  
Csilla Kiss ◽  
Michel Patrick Pimbert
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Systems

AbstractIn this chapter, we introduce the origins and history of agroecology, outlining its emergence as a science and its longstanding history as a traditional practice throughout the world. We provide a brief review of the evidence of the benefits of agroecology in relation to productivity, livelihoods, biodiversity, nutrition, climate change and enhancing social relations. We then outline our approach to agroecology which is rooted in the tradition of political ecology that posits power and governance have always been the decisive factors in shaping agricultural and other ‘human’ systems.

scholarly journals Changing Revealed Comparative Advantage: A Case Study of Footwear Industry of Pakistan

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (4II) ◽  
pp. 695-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseem Akhtar ◽  
Nadia Zakiri ◽  
Ejaz Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
Socioeconomic Environment ◽  
China And India ◽  
Footwear Industry ◽  
The World

The global export patterns are changing fast as a result of reduction in trade barriers and technological advancements that have led to gains in productivity and change in comparative advantage patterns in world economies. Asian economies such as China and India are enjoying a notable growth in changing circumstances across the world. Pakistan also has great potential for higher growth however the political threats, socioeconomic environment and lack of updated technologies are obstruction in the way of progress. Some sectors of Pakistan economy have shown a good performance in terms of production and exports. Footwear is one such industry which has increased its exports at large extent since 2003. This sector has pivotal importance in terms of providing and creating jobs, earning of foreign exchange with the help of exports and fulfilling the local consumption requirements. Both in Pakistan and around the globe, the demand for footwear is increasing. Pakistan is one of the most populous countries in the World and according to an estimate with an average population growth of 2.25 percent, about 3 million children have been born during the year 2005-06, signaling the growing demand for footwear in Pakistan. It is also estimated that about 60 percent of the World’s total consumption consists of simple footwear made entirely of non-leather materials and that for the remaining 40 percent only the upper part of the shoe is made of leather. In the manufacturing of footwear, most frequently used material consists upon leather, man-made materials, rubber / canvas / synthetic and textile along accessories. Different type of shoes are being produced by the local industry e.g. sportsmen, army, disabled persons and safety shoes for the industrial workers etc. The population of Pakistan is expected to be about 172 million in the year 2010. Keeping in view the growth in population, the growth in the demand of footwear industry is also anticipated.

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