Climate migration and the UK

Parsons, Laurie

doi:10.5871/jba/009.003

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“…ESS-based studies confirm these congruencies. There is an association between attitudes to refugees and attitudes to the environment across 20 European countries, with pro-environmental party voters being more positive regarding immigrants and refugees (Puskarova and Dancakova, 2018;Ilmarinen et al, 2020;Parsons, 2021). Next, people who hold attitudes consistent with a nationalist ideology are generally more likely to be sceptical about climate change and oppose policies that increase taxes on fossil fuels (Kulin et al, 2022).…”

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Informing Climate Mitigation Policies: A Scoping Study Based on 64 Articles Using The 2016 European Social Survey Rotating Module

Malnar

2023

TIP

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The article presents a meta-analysis of academic articles using the European Social Survey Climate Change module. It summarises the key individual and country-level factors that shape climate beliefs, behaviours, and policy support, aiming to mitigate the problem of the fragmentation of findings when informing policymakers. The results, depicted in a heuristic model, underscore the significance of awareness, trust, and socio-political contexts, illustrating the intricate interplay of climate change beliefs, emotional engagement and policy preferences. By consolidating the scattered research through a meta-analytical approach, the study efficiently identifies key obstacles encountered by European decision-makers while implementing climate mitigation measures and policies. Keywords: climate change, climate action, climate policy, European social survey

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Informing Climate Mitigation Policies: A Scoping Study Based on 64 Articles Using The 2016 European Social Survey Rotating Module

Malnar

2023

TIP

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“…Some argue that images of extreme climate migration can serve as tools for action, awareness, and activism in a context where climate denialism was (and remains) frighteningly widespread (Bettini et al, 2017; Malm & The Zetkin Collective, 2021; McNamara, 2007; Ranganathan & Bratman, 2021). In this way, more progressive narratives became avenues for proactively reducing social inequity while allowing people to express feelings and concerns that support their emotional wellbeing (Bettini et al, 2017; Hickman, 2020; Parsons, 2021; Ranganathan & Bratman, 2021). Protecting the rights and agency of vulnerable people facing climatic changes is a fine balance.…”

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Who is the climate‐induced trapped figure?

Ayeb‐Karlsson

Baldwin

Kniveton

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Many will remember the 1990s alarmist narratives of how a human tide of up to a billion climate refugees would flood "our" borders by 2050. By 2011, a new character joined the discourse: the trapped figure. No longer would climatically vulnerable people be forced to move, they could also end up immobile. This review examines the narratives that surround the trapped figure. The article highlights the trapped figure's (i) characterisation, (ii) geography, and (iii) storytellers. The material includes the 2011 Foresight Report, 64 English peer-reviewed journal articles, and seven UNFCCC policy reports. The textual analysis furthers our understanding of the values that shape the meaning of the trapped figure within the wider discursive economy. Out of the 64 articles, 48 located the trapped figure in Asia, while 34 placed the figure in Africa. Meanwhile, the majority of articles-62 in total-were written by scholars based at European research institutes.The study shows that the trapped figure, much as the mythical climate refugee and migrant, is constructed as both a victim in need of rescuing and as an ambiguous security threat. It is ethically problematic that planned relocation was often put forward as an effective tool to "move" the figure out of harm's way. The review also found a range of binary opposites in the discourse on trapped populations, including those of order-disorder, freedom-unfreedom, and victim-savior. This suggests that however wellintentioned the liberal discourse on trapped populations appear, it remains embedded in power relations which demands for critical scrutiny.

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Climate Change as a “Threat Multiplier”: The Construction of Climate Security by the United Kingdom—2007–2020

Harrington

2023

The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science

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Climate migration and the UK

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Informing Climate Mitigation Policies: A Scoping Study Based on 64 Articles Using The 2016 European Social Survey Rotating Module

Informing Climate Mitigation Policies: A Scoping Study Based on 64 Articles Using The 2016 European Social Survey Rotating Module

Who is the climate‐induced trapped figure?

Climate Change as a “Threat Multiplier”: The Construction of Climate Security by the United Kingdom—2007–2020

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