Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2221983
Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, Maria Gustafsson
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133
Micah Farver
{"title":"Citizens United and State environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes","authors":"Micah Farver","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2215133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43147923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2211488
M. Davidson, Xue Gao, Joshua W. Busby, C. Shearer, Joshua Eisenman
ABSTRACT The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea have signaled their intent not to fund new coal projects overseas, leaving China and its Belt and Road Initiative as the ‘financier of last resort.’ In September 2021, China too announced its intent to stop providing finance for overseas coal projects. What accounts for their decision to cease financing overseas coal projects despite prominent differences in political systems, degree of internationalization of their financial systems, and economic size? Drawing on datasets of coal projects and financing supplemented by case material and interviews, this paper explores the dynamics of coal export finance and how the combination of international reputational pressures and declining demand for coal finance diminished the domestic support for incumbent coal exporters in all three countries.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2215659
Hauke Dannemann
Facing the increasingly brutal consequences of failed climate politics and swelling polarization, one of the most pressing questions of our time is why humanity seems to be unable to act adequately on climate change. Grappling with this question, Climate Obstruction is a timely and sophisticated assessment of how diverse actors in the Global North intentionally and unintentionally impede appropriate climate measures of mitigation. Bringing together insights from environmental history, communication studies, psychology and sociology, the authors successfully meet their aim to provide an accessible overview that enables academics and interested readers from a wider public to explore this vibrant research field. The book’s core consists of four chapters, each of which had first been drafted by one of the respective authors. The first reconstructs the coming of age of climate obstruction organized by fossil capital, market fundamentalists and conservatives in industrial, fossil capitalism (drafted by Ekberg). The authors depict the full-fledged climate change denial machine from the late 1980s onwards (drafted by Hultman) and discuss far-right ideologies and framings of climate change that are noticeably shifting from literal denial to response skepticism and delay (drafted by Forchtner). Subsequently, they address the demand side of climate obstruction, that is, the (occasionally unintendedly) obstructive attitudes and behaviors of individuals in the wider public (drafted by Jylhä). Since these contributions can be found mostly in previous publications of the respective authors, the auspicious attempt to connect and integrate these different aspects is particularly intriguing. For this integration, the introduction of the umbrella concept of climate obstruction is key and the authors convincingly highlight its added value in contrast to more common terms as denial and skepticism. They argue that denial ‘risks depicting a far too simplistic, reductionist dichotomy between climate “deniers” and “non-deniers”’, and criticize the use of skepticism for ‘possibly even granting an aura of scientific legitimacy to those not acting’ (p. 11). Instead, they propose a threefold differentiation of obstruction in primary (denial and evidence skepticism), secondary (delay and
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2216102
Ajmal Khan A. T.
inequality and flexibilization, individualization and singularization as well as depoliticization and post-politics. Nevertheless, Climate Obstruction is an eyeopening, thought-provoking contribution and a must-read for everybody who despairs of understanding why late modern societies are sliding into climate catastrophe with their eyes wide open, or – to be precise – are already in the midst of it.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2213135
J. Davidson
management, and environmental activism’ (p. 17). While one may be sympathetic to such an effort, it is a risky enterprise in a world where attacking science is a part of current political practice, a challenge she duly acknowledges. Science, she says, must never be reduced to a matter of identity politics. Decolonising science is not about ‘offering a new kingdom of thought to replace the disciplines’ (p. 178), but rather to transform our thinking about what it is to know. Her insights are an inspiring contribution to the efforts to ‘think athwart’ and the book deserves to be read with attention and care.
{"title":"No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world","authors":"J. Davidson","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2213135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2213135","url":null,"abstract":"management, and environmental activism’ (p. 17). While one may be sympathetic to such an effort, it is a risky enterprise in a world where attacking science is a part of current political practice, a challenge she duly acknowledges. Science, she says, must never be reduced to a matter of identity politics. Decolonising science is not about ‘offering a new kingdom of thought to replace the disciplines’ (p. 178), but rather to transform our thinking about what it is to know. Her insights are an inspiring contribution to the efforts to ‘think athwart’ and the book deserves to be read with attention and care.","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42335275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-16eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2210464
Benjamin K Sovacool, Chad M Baum, Roberto Cantoni, Sean Low
Institutional theory, behavioral science, sociology and even political science all emphasize the importance of actors in achieving social change. Despite this salience, the actors involved in researching, promoting, or deploying negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies remain underexplored within the literature. In this study, based on a rigorous sample of semi-structured expert interviews (N = 125), we empirically explore the types of actors and groups associated with both negative emissions and solar geoengineering research and deployment. We investigate emergent knowledge networks and patterns of involvement across space and scale. We examine actors in terms of their support of, opposition to, or ambiguity regarding both types of climate interventions. We reveal incipient and perhaps unforeseen collections of actors; determine which sorts of actors are associated with different technology pathways to comprehend the locations of actor groups and potential patterns of elitism; and assess relative degrees of social acceptance, legitimacy, and governance.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2213134
Synne Movik
{"title":"Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa","authors":"Synne Movik","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2213134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2213134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43822161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2213136
Zhuchen Li, Ya-Ru Zhu
{"title":"National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation","authors":"Zhuchen Li, Ya-Ru Zhu","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2213136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2213136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42681890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2210488
Klaus Dingwerth
{"title":"Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris","authors":"Klaus Dingwerth","doi":"10.1080/09644016.2023.2210488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2210488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51393,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47622595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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