Sustaining business as usual or enabling transformation? A discourse analysis of climate change mitigation policy in Swedish municipalities

IF 3 3区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI:10.1002/eet.2090
Malin Andersson, Veronica Brodén Gyberg
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This article explores how discourses may influence the potential for success in mitigating climate change in Swedish municipalities. We identify dominant discourses in climate change mitigation policy in three Swedish municipalities using argumentative discourse analysis, based on policy documents and interviews as empirical material. Political leadership and adequate organizational preconditions are necessary for working with climate change mitigation in municipalities, but the role of discourse is also significant. Policy discourse constructs preconditions for certain scenarios while rendering others less likely. Previous studies have shown that the ecological modernization (EM) discourse tends to be dominant, something which this study confirms and investigates further. We find that the dominant discourse is strong EM, which largely considers it possible to decouple economic growth and environmental problems through renewable energy and technology. A focus on collaboration between stakeholders is central and a global climate justice perspective is present to some extent. Potential solutions that are not related to the market or technological innovation risk being rendered invisible when this discourse is dominant, but the inclusion of a diversity of actors and an increased focus on climate justice could potentially minimize this risk. Finally, emerging discourses around transformation and circular economy have potential to enable the forging of new paths. This depends, however, on how these concepts are framed and how they are used.

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维持业务还是实现转型?瑞典各市减缓气候变化政策的话语分析
本文探讨了话语如何影响瑞典市政当局减缓气候变化的成功潜力。我们以政策文件和访谈为经验材料,利用论证性话语分析,确定了瑞典三个城市气候变化缓解政策中的主导话语。政治领导和充分的组织先决条件是在市政当局开展减缓气候变化工作的必要条件,但话语的作用也很重要。政策话语为某些情景构建先决条件,而使其他情景不太可能发生。以往的研究表明,生态现代化(EM)话语倾向于占主导地位,本研究进一步证实了这一点。我们发现,占主导地位的话语是强大的新兴市场,它在很大程度上认为有可能通过可再生能源和技术将经济增长和环境问题脱钩。关注利益相关者之间的合作是核心,在一定程度上存在全球气候正义的观点。当这种话语占主导地位时,与市场或技术创新无关的潜在解决方案有被忽视的风险,但将各种行为者纳入其中并更加关注气候正义可能会最大限度地减少这种风险。最后,围绕转型和循环经济的新兴话语有可能推动新路径的形成。然而,这取决于这些概念是如何构建的以及如何使用的。
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Environmental Policy and Governance
Environmental Policy and Governance ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: Environmental Policy and Governance is an international, inter-disciplinary journal affiliated with the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). The journal seeks to advance interdisciplinary environmental research and its use to support novel solutions in environmental policy and governance. The journal publishes innovative, high quality articles which examine, or are relevant to, the environmental policies that are introduced by governments or the diverse forms of environmental governance that emerge in markets and civil society. The journal includes papers that examine how different forms of policy and governance emerge and exert influence at scales ranging from local to global and in diverse developmental and environmental contexts.
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