Economic framing dominates climate policy reporting: a fifty-state analysis

Garth, Ann; Roberts, J. Timmons

doi:10.1007/s10584-022-03371-6

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“…For example, local officials may fear that dwelling on hazard vulnerability might hurt economic investment and growth (Cutter et al, 2008). A recent review of newspaper coverage of climate change framing in the USA revealed economic or business challenges as the most common approach to framing climate change consequences (Garth & Roberts, 2022).…”

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What do people care about when managing flood risks? A values-informed mental model approach

Cooper¹,

Helgeson²,

Troy³

et al. 2022

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Managing climate risks often requires making hard decisions. While decision analysis can help, many analyses narrowly view what matters to people concerning decision outcomes. For instance, government policies may require projects to pass a cost-benefit analysis in which only easily monetized objectives are considered—incorporating a richer view of people's values means understanding those values and how they intersect with the problem formulations that drive outcomes. Here, we demonstrate an approach for assessing how values influence mental models. We used a case study of household flood adaptation decisions in riverine communities in Pennsylvania, USA. The approach included co-developing a shared mental model with local and academic experts. This mental model then guided interviews with 16 residents. The mental model analysis reveals the diverse values that participants consider when making mitigation decisions. Translating these values into objectives for decision analyses can help decision-makers (i) navigate more relevant tradeoffs and synergies between objectives and (ii) respond to risks in ways that are more consistent with their priorities.

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What do people care about when managing flood risks? A values-informed mental model approach

Cooper¹,

Helgeson²,

Troy³

et al. 2022

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Limited Attention to Climate Change in U.S. Sociology

Hiltner

2024

Am Soc

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Climate change is increasingly recognized as not only a biophysical and technological problem but also a social one. Nonetheless, sociologists have expressed concern that sociology has paid relatively little attention to climate change. This deficit threatens to limit the frames available to understand and imagine solutions to the climate crisis. In this paper I report the most up-to-date and expansive empirical assessment of attention to climate change in sociology in the United States (U.S.). I find little to no mention of climate change across leading sociology journal articles (0.89%), conference sessions (1.5%), and faculty biographies (2.8%) and course listings (0.2%) in the 20 top-ranked departments in the U.S. Two leading journals, the American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology, have cumulatively published just three articles focused on climate change to date. This level of disciplinary attention appears low compared to the field’s engagement with other important social problems. My findings thus suggest that climate silence is persistent and pervasive in U.S. sociology. I discuss the implications of this silence and outline opportunities for sociologists, funders, journalists, and policymakers to embrace social science perspectives in climate change teaching, research, and policymaking.

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Climate change, costs, or jobs: How policymakers frame state clean energy laws

Armstrong

2023

The Electricity Journal

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Economic framing dominates climate policy reporting: a fifty-state analysis

Cited by 4 publications

References 59 publications

What do people care about when managing flood risks? A values-informed mental model approach

What do people care about when managing flood risks? A values-informed mental model approach

Limited Attention to Climate Change in U.S. Sociology

Climate change, costs, or jobs: How policymakers frame state clean energy laws

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