Climate change and the fossil fuel divestment movement in Canadian higher education: The mobilities of actions, actors, and tactics

Maina, Naomi Mumbi; Murray, Jaylene; McKenzie, Marcia

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119874

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“…This includes student activism, which has embraced social media as a new tool for campaigning and protesting [55,56]. Other research indicates that over 80% of FFD campaigns at HEIs in North America have a Facebook page and a host of other social media platforms are commonly used by campaigns [29]. This study exploits the ubiquitous use of social media in contemporary student movements to collect and analyze data on the characteristics of FFD campaigns at US HEIs from campaign Facebook pages.…”

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“…In 2012, Bill McKibben published the popular article "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" and embarked on the Do the Math Tour with his climate advocacy organization 350.org, promoting institutional FFD [17,28]. McKibben and 350.org, along with other organizations, subsequently worked to support the development of hundreds of FFD campaigns at HEIs in the US and internationally [17,29,30]. Though campaigns at some HEIs were met with stern rejection by administrators, FFD commitments from HEIs soon began rolling in [17].…”

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“…FFD extends climate justice concerns and demands and applies them to institutional finance in a Blockadia-style attempt to cut off the social and financial support for fossil fuels. Climate justice has been central to the narrative of the HE FFD movement, with campaigns and organizations often highlighting the disproportionate impacts of climate change and fossil fuel extraction on historically marginalized populations and seeking to show solidarity with frontline communities that bear the brunt of their impacts [4,16,17,29].…”

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“…Despite the importance of HEIs in the initiation and continued advancement of the FFD movement and the unique arena the HE context provides for shifting discourse on climate change and sustainability, scholarly work on FFD in HE has been limited [4,19,29]. Research has explored the movement through focus on campaigns at a limited number of HEIs [4,16,17], or has focused on narrow elements of the movement such as rationales used by divesting HEIs and the role of faculty in campaigns [49,50].…”

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“…Research has explored the movement through focus on campaigns at a limited number of HEIs [4,16,17], or has focused on narrow elements of the movement such as rationales used by divesting HEIs and the role of faculty in campaigns [49,50]. With the exception of Maina et al, (2020), who recently completed a study of all HE FFD campaigns in Canada [29], there has been little research that has explored the extent of the movement or its characteristics using data from a large portion of HEIs involved in the movement. This paper seeks to fill this gap with a focus on the US, examining the locations and types of institutions where campaigns occur, the stakeholders involved in campaigns and the goals they adopt, and the themes campaigns use in their messaging.…”

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Shifting Discourse on Climate and Sustainability: Key Characteristics of the Higher Education Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement

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In the last decade, the fossil fuel divestment (FFD) movement has emerged as a key component of an international grassroots mobilization for climate justice. Using a text analysis of Facebook pages for 144 campaigns at higher education institutions (HEIs), this article presents an overview and analysis of the characteristics of the higher education (HE) FFD movement in the US. The results indicate that campaigns occur at a wide array of HEIs, concentrated on the east and west coasts. Primarily student led, campaigns set broad goals for divestment, while reinvestment is often a less clearly defined objective. Campaigns incorporate a mixture of environmental, social, and economic arguments into their messaging. Justice is a common theme, used often in a broad context rather than towards specific populations or communities impacted by climate change or other social issues. These insights contribute to the understanding of the HE FFD movement as ten years of campus organizing approaches. In particular, this study illustrates how the movement is pushing sustainability and climate action in HE and in broader society towards a greater focus on systemic change and social justice through campaigns’ hardline stance against fossil fuels and climate justice orientation.

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SummaryThis paper proposes a synchronous reference frame (SRF) control with a photovoltaic (PV)‐based shunt active power filter (SAPF) that is utilized to mitigate harmonics impacted by fast‐growing nonlinear load (NL), including compensation of reactive power in distribution systems. The PV module is constructed with an enhanced incremental conductance (EINC) maximum power point tracking approach with an interconnected SAPF. It can support load reactive power demand, eliminating harmonics obtained by NL and the active power supported by the PV arrays. Traditional tuning PI controllers perform poorly under variable load conditions. An adaptive intelligent nonlinear controller capable of simultaneously addressing the impacts of variable load, NL generation of harmonic current, and reactive power demand. This research aims to improve power quality based on an adaptive neuro‐fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to enhance PV‐SAPF dynamic performance and achieve optimized performance. This control technique reduces the percentage of total harmonic distortion (THD) of the source current below IEEE standards from generating an NL and balanced/unbalanced load condition and regulates the DC‐link voltage constant. Moreover, the presented SRF theory, solar PV, and step‐up converter are addressed. The proposed system control strategy is implemented in the MATLAB/Simulink platform and the Texas Instruments Cyclone IV EP4CE30F484 FPGA board to carry out the hardware implementations of the proposed PV‐SAPF system and validated experimentally.

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Climate change and the fossil fuel divestment movement in Canadian higher education: The mobilities of actions, actors, and tactics

Cited by 24 publications

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Shifting Discourse on Climate and Sustainability: Key Characteristics of the Higher Education Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement

Shifting Discourse on Climate and Sustainability: Key Characteristics of the Higher Education Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement

Solar photovoltaic‐interfaced shunt active power filter implementation for power quality enhancement in grid‐connected systems

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