Producing political climate change: the hidden life of US environmentalism

Brick, Philip; Cawley, R. McGreggor

doi:10.1080/09644010801936107

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“…Brick and Cawley (2008) track how, beginning in the late 2000s, national climate activists also began to shift from “ledger politics” (tallying up legislative victories and failures) to a broader, more inclusive frame, using climate change as a discursive bridge to connect a wide variety of ideas and events that were not previously understood as connected. For instance, U.S. groups are now increasingly likely to frame climate change as a core health or economic issue.…”

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“…In the United States, alliance‐building strategies have varied across time and levels of governance. Framing climate change as a narrow pollution problem, national environmental groups initially failed to engage (and indeed often alienated) other constituencies such as organized labor, businesses, social, or environmental justice movements (see Brick & Cawley, 2008; Meyer, 2009). Discussions of, say, how climate change affects jobs, international trade, and development and social justice were largely absent.…”

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Mind the (Mobilization) Gap: Comparing Climate Activism in the United States and European Union

Bomberg

2012

Review of Policy Research

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The barriers to concerted political action on climate change mitigation are steep, especially in multilevel systems where power is diffused and authority contested. This article seeks to explain how mobilizationgalvanizing resources and people to participate actively-occurs in complex multilevel systems. It compares two different polities-the United States and the European Union-to tease out the key features of multilevel systems and how they affect climate activism and mobilization. To capture this dynamic, it proposes a three-staged model of mobilization: awareness building, alliance building, and network creation. The latter stage features "mobilization networks"-stakeholder networks able to transcend levels and institutional inertia and steer polities toward particular climate goals. The article demonstrates how each stage of mobilization is highly contingent on stakeholders' ability to exploit-or at least navigatemultilevel institutional barriers.

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Mind the (Mobilization) Gap: Comparing Climate Activism in the United States and European Union

Bomberg

2012

Review of Policy Research

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“…The salience, frequency, and prominence of the issue are supposed to be the dominant factors affecting the impact of the media (the quantity coverage theory, Mazur, 2009). On the other hand, the information presented in the media is not necessarily unbiased and can be significantly affected by political, social, or corporate agenda (Andrews & Caren, 2010; Brick & Cawley, 2008). Obviously, all these need to be represented by a stakeholder pushing the issue of climate change through the mass media (Koopmans, 2004).…”

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Public support for sustainable development and environmental policy: A case of the Czech Republic

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Strielkowski

2021

Sustainable Development

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While the scientific community presents a relatively uniform conclusion on the ongoing global warming and the policies that are essential for sustainable development and the mitigation of the negative effects of climate change, the public opinion on the topic is far from uniform. This article studies the factors related to public awareness of climate change and environmental policy, public ideas on the supposed effects of climate change, the belief on whether climate change is caused by human activities, and the perceived possibilities to alleviate climate change by humans. We employ a set of ordinal multinomial regression analyses with spline corrections for ordinal predictors on a representative sample of 1021 respondents (aged 15–86 years, M ± SD: 47.15 ± 17.46; 19.4% with higher education, 50.60% women) from the Czech Republic. Our results suggest that life satisfaction, belief in God, interest in climate‐related issues, and the attitude to the European Union were the most relevant factors. Older people were less interested in climate, less aware of sustainable development and climate change, and less willing to take action. Women were more concerned with climate change compared to men. The effect of traditional mass media, Internet‐based social networks, and discussion forums, and personal discussions outside of the internet were less significant than expected. The article provides policy suggestions for enhanced stakeholder engagement as well as suggestions for further research on the topic.

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“…Having said this, international nongovernmental organizations have had some success in influencing public and governmental actors' perceptions of the global environment in Japan, particularly with regard to climate change (Tiberghien and Schreurs 2007). In the United States, where environmental protection measures that were started in the 1970s have met with substantial success (Brick and Cawley 2008), concerns regarding global environmental protection among government agencies are less powerful relative to ideas about free markets and individual economic freedom. This is especially true with regard to climate change in the administration of President George W. Bush (Lisowski 2002).…”

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Bringing the In‐Between Back in: Foreign Policy in Global Environmental Politics

Harris

2008

Politics & Policy

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Many environmental problems are transnational in their causes, consequences, and/or solutions. The increasing pace of global environmental destruction suggests that research on policies to address these problems has proved to be inadequate to the task. One possible way to enhance our understanding of global environmental politics and policy is to look more carefully at what goes on between and across the international and domestic aspects of it: to look at environmental foreign policy. This article describes foreign policy in the context of global environmental politics and discusses the potential utility of foreign policy analysis to help scholars and policy makers to better explore, comprehend, and possibly mitigate the human impact on the environment. Examples are drawn from the cases of China, Japan, and the United States.

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Producing political climate change: the hidden life of US environmentalism

Cited by 19 publications

References 4 publications

Mind the (Mobilization) Gap: Comparing Climate Activism in the United States and European Union

Mind the (Mobilization) Gap: Comparing Climate Activism in the United States and European Union

Public support for sustainable development and environmental policy: A case of the Czech Republic

Bringing the In‐Between Back in: Foreign Policy in Global Environmental Politics

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