Environmental Citizenship in Latin America: Climate, Intermediate Organizations, and Political Subjects

Orlove, Ben; Taddei, Renzo; Podestá, Guillermo; Broad, Kenneth

doi:10.1353/lar.2011.0034

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“…According to the most recent World Bank report, Peru, similar to many developing countries, is experiencing major environmental and natural challenges [14]. In the academic context of Peru, sustainability has received considerable attention on the part of scholars, especially in the fields of the natural sciences [15,16], human-environmental sciences [17][18][19], and ecological sciences [12,20]. Despite this growing research interest, we still have only limited understanding of the drivers of sustainable lifestyles in Peruvian society.…”

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Purchasing Green Products as a Means of Expressing Consumers’ Uniqueness: Empirical Evidence from Peru and Bangladesh

Jahanshahi

Jia

2018

Sustainability

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Does consumers' consumption of green products represent a method of satisfying their need for uniqueness? Does it enhance their self-image? In order to answer these questions, the present study attempts to understand how personal-level factors (such as the need for uniqueness) and product-level factors (such as self-expressive benefits) drive customers to go green. Survey-based data were collected from 247 customers in Bangladesh and 132 customers in Peru during 2017-2018. A hierarchical linear regression analysis was employed to test the proposed hypotheses. The results of this study highlight the important role played by the need for uniqueness as a major driver of green behavior among customers in both countries. Furthermore, self-expressive benefits were found to represent another reason on the part of customers in both Peru and Bangladesh for buying green products. This study hence contributes to the current literature by strengthening existing knowledge of the drivers of pro-environmental purchasing behavior in developing countries.

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Purchasing Green Products as a Means of Expressing Consumers’ Uniqueness: Empirical Evidence from Peru and Bangladesh

Jahanshahi

Jia

2018

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“…The role of science was another topic, such as for example how and by whom scientific climate predictions were used for agenda setting [30]. On a related topic, one publication analysed how the discourses of climate sceptics influenced political discourses, and how better interdisciplinary work could improve the dissemination of science for policy development [31].…”

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“…Only a few publications dealt with the interactions between climate change policies and politics or power [60,61], or contributed to political debates related to climate change. For example, only a few documents reflected on environmental citizenship [30] or neoliberalism [115], and thus were contributing to a broader discussion on the interactions between nature and society or the effect of economic liberalisation on climate change [12]. Other scholars have called researchers to engage more in the political processes that shape the development of climate policies and to propose more radical criticisms to the root causes of climate change and the assumptions of some climate policies, including liberalisation, privatisation, and marketisation [113].…”

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Research on Climate Change Policies and Rural Development in Latin America: Scope and Gaps

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Abstract:Research on climate change policies can contribute to policy development by building an understanding of the barriers faced in policy processes, and by providing knowledge needed throughout policy cycles. This paper explores the thematic coverage of research on climate change policies related to rural areas, rural development, and natural resource management in Latin America. A three-tier framework is proposed to analyse the selected literature. The results show that research studies have focussed on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from forests, and adaptations to climate change in agriculture. There is little policy research on other vulnerable sectors (e.g., water and health) and emitting sectors (e.g., energy and industry) in the context of rural development. Our analysis highlights the various research gaps that deserve increased scientific attention, including: cross-sector approaches, multi-level governance, and the stages of policy adoption, implementation and evaluation. In addition, the selected literature has a limited contribution to theoretical discussions in policy sciences.

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“…The process was facilitated by the CMCC acting as a "boundary organization", i.e. an organization that assists the interaction between science producers and users, following the definition reported in Kirchhoff et al (Kirchhoff et al 2013) and coherent with other literature (see for example (Orlove et al 2011;Swart GRB 2009)). This interaction could be beneficial for improving climate information, and for identifying new climate data addressing end-users' needs (Lemos et al 2014).…”

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Sharing skills and needs between providers and users of climate information to create climate services: lessons from the Northern Adriatic case study

2016

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The need to cope with the expected impacts of climate change on socio-ecological systems calls for a closer dialogue between climate scientists and the community of climate information users. We describe an interactive process designed to bridge this gap by establishing a two-way communication, based on mutual learning. We analyse the need of climate information for the integrated assessment of climate change impacts on the coastal zone of the Northern Adriatic Sea, which is considered to be particularly vulnerable to several climate-related phenomena, e.g. heavy rainfall events, pluvial flood, and sea level rise, causing potentially high damage to coastal ecosystems and urban areas (e.g. acqua alta in the Venice Lagoon). A participatory process was designed engaging representatives from both the scientific and local stakeholders communities, and facilitated by a boundary organization, embodied by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. End-users of climate information (e.g. decision makers belonging to public institutions) were selected among representatives of those public institutions having a specific mandate for Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and engaged to identify their needs. During the early stages of the interaction process, several priorities were identified, including: (1) data to support land-use planning, (2) data with greater resolution and longer time series, (3) data on climate impacts and risks, (4) precipitation patterns to improve irrigation, (5) sea level rise and tides, (6) climate variations and extreme events, (7) seasonal trend for tidal waves, and (8) hydraulic risk. Three climate products were developed to address these needs: (1) short-term projections of sea level rise; (2) seasonal predictions of extreme rainfall events; (3) long-term regional projections of climate extremes (including heat waves, dry spells and heavy rainfall events). Additionally, two risk products were developed: 4) sea level rise inundation risk maps for the low-lying coastal areas of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions; and 5) pluvial flood risk maps for the urban territory of the municipality of Venice.

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Environmental Citizenship in Latin America: Climate, Intermediate Organizations, and Political Subjects

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

Purchasing Green Products as a Means of Expressing Consumers’ Uniqueness: Empirical Evidence from Peru and Bangladesh

Purchasing Green Products as a Means of Expressing Consumers’ Uniqueness: Empirical Evidence from Peru and Bangladesh

Research on Climate Change Policies and Rural Development in Latin America: Scope and Gaps

Sharing skills and needs between providers and users of climate information to create climate services: lessons from the Northern Adriatic case study

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