Climate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly

Muradova, Lala; Walker, Hayley; Colli, Francesca

doi:10.1080/14693062.2020.1777928

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“…Public participation performs an important function in legitimizing government policy and decisions, especially for controversial issues such as climate change [3,[97][98][99][100]. Geiger et al [101] suggest that just as infrequent exposure to climate change is likely to lower its salience and inhibit behavioural responses, increasing the public's exposure will foster increased engagement.…”

Section: Effective Climate Change Adaptation Through Public Knowledgementioning

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Can public awareness, knowledge and engagement improve climate change adaptation policies?

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Communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change need to adapt to increase their resilience. Effective government policies and plans are a key component of this transition, but they are not sufficient in themselves. The community needs to be made aware of the risks, acquire knowledge about the options that are available for a response, and be empowered to take their own actions. Effective public engagement is therefore key to success in planning for climate change. This paper focuses on the importance of public engagement in climate change adaptation policy. It undertakes a systematic quantitative review of the literature dealing with the core themes of climate change awareness, knowledge, and engagement in policy-making. The findings reveal a gap in the existing academic literature on public engagement, its impacts on different types of knowledge, and the integration of both into climate change adaptation policy. In addition, findings show a strong link between public knowledge and engagement that can be used to encourage and motivate the public by using behavioural economics as a policy instrument. The paper also makes a useful contribution by identifying more effective strategies to improve climate change resilience and sustainability.

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Section: Effective Climate Change Adaptation Through Public Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Can public awareness, knowledge and engagement improve climate change adaptation policies?

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“…Through the prioritization of the commons over self-interest, the 'talk-centric' deliberative approach of citizens' assemblies can lead to support for ambitious climate policy solutions [14]. For example, the Irish Constitutional Convention discussed nine policy areas including climate change [4] and the Assembly participants decided on 13 policy recommendations that were 'significantly more radical than many expected' [15]. In October 2019, as part of Great National Debate, the French President invited 150 citizens to formulate proposals to fight against climate change.…”

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“…Recently, citizens' assemblies have also been used in the field of climate change, mainly with the aim to identify existing problems and suggest specific policies. Earlier research shows how assemblies advance climate action, educate the citizenry, how proposals are generated (including the functioning of these meetings), and their consequences on decision-making [2][3][4][5]. In spite of this burgeoning literature, we know very little about why climate assemblies are organized.…”

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Sustainability and Politics: Explaining the Emergence of the 2020 Budapest Climate Assembly

2021

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The relationship between political participation and the pursuit of sustainability at the local level has been investigated extensively in the literature. In this content, the emergence and extensive use of citizens’ assemblies receive particular attention. Much research focuses on the functioning of these assemblies and potential impact in the community. However, we know very little about why such initiatives occur. This article fills that gap in the literature and aims to explain why a citizens’ assembly on climate change was organized. It focuses on the Citizens’ Assembly in Budapest (Hungary), organized in the fall of 2020 with randomly selected citizens. The findings illustrate that although civil society initiated the deliberative process, the prime mover of the Citizens’ Assembly was political. Local politicians pursued this objective to fulfil their election pledges, ensure ideological consistency and promote sustainability.

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“…We wish to point out that in the social sciences, the body of qualitative research on CC-related discourse is hardly smaller or less diverse than that of the quantitative work. Qualitatively-oriented studies show, for example, that effective communication on CC policy can result in citizen assemblies supporting specific policy proposals (Muradova et al, 2020). Carpenter (2002) traced how shifts in interest group discourses impacted negotiations of states at the COP-6.…”

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The Climate Change Debate and Natural Language Processing

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Patz²

2021

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact

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The debate around climate change (CC)-its extent, its causes, and the necessary responses-is intense and of global importance. Yet, in the natural language processing (NLP) community, this domain has so far received little attention. In contrast, it is of enormous prominence in various social science disciplines, and some of that work follows the "text-as-data" paradigm, seeking to employ quantitative methods for analyzing large amounts of CC-related text. Other research is qualitative in nature and studies details, nuances, actors, and motivations within CC discourses. Coming from both NLP and Political Science, and reviewing key works in both disciplines, we discuss how social science approaches to CC debates can inform advances in text-mining/NLP, and how, in return, NLP can support policy-makers and activists in making sense of large-scale and complex CC discourses across multiple genres, channels, topics, and communities. This is paramount for their ability to make rapid and meaningful impact on the discourse, and for shaping the necessary policy change.

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Climate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly

Cited by 39 publications

References 35 publications

Can public awareness, knowledge and engagement improve climate change adaptation policies?

Can public awareness, knowledge and engagement improve climate change adaptation policies?

Sustainability and Politics: Explaining the Emergence of the 2020 Budapest Climate Assembly

The Climate Change Debate and Natural Language Processing

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