Seizing policy windows: Policy Influence of climate advocacy coalitions in Brazil, China, and India, 2000–2015

Aamodt, Solveig

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.006

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“…However, such results have to be integrated with an understanding of policy elites and the dynamics of policy networks. 57,59,[131][132][133][134][135] The urgency of the problem underlines the need for a more integrated understanding that draws on and develops insights from diverse lines of research.…”

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Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

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Limiting global warming to 2 C or less compared with pre-industrial temperatures will require unprecedented rates of decarbonization globally. The scale and scope of transformational change required across sectors and actors in society raises critical questions of feasibility. Much of the literature on mitigation pathways addresses technological and economic aspects of feasibility, but overlooks the behavioral, cultural, and social factors that affect theoretical and practical mitigation pathways. We present a tripartite framework that ''unpacks'' the concept of mitigation pathways by distinguishing three factors that together determine actual mitigation: technical potential, initiative feasibility, and behavioral plasticity. The framework aims to integrate and streamline heterogeneous disciplinary research traditions toward a more comprehensive and transparent approach that will facilitate learning across disciplines and enable mitigation pathways to more fully reflect available knowledge. We offer three suggestions for integrating the tripartite framework into current research on climate change mitigation.

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“…In addition, Brazil went from having no climate policies in 2000 to significant voluntary commitment to emission reductions in 2009 (at least 36.1% by 2020 relative to a projected business-as-usual scenario). Furthermore, it enshrined this international commitment into a national climate law in 2009 and increased its mitigation commitment further in 2015, becoming the only developing country with an absolute mitigation target for 2025 (Aamodt and Stensdal 2017).…”

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When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective

2019

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Analyzing the politics and policy implications in Brazil of attributing extreme weather events to climate change, we argue for greater place-based sensitivity in recommendations for how to frame extreme weather events relative to climate change. Identifying geographical limits of current recommendations to emphasize the climate role in such events, we explore Brazilian framings of the two tragic national disasters, as apparent in newspaper coverage of climate change. We find that a variety of contextual factors compel environmental leaders and scientists in Brazil to avoid and discourage highlighting the role of climate change in national extreme events. Against analysts' general deficit-finding assumptions, we argue that the Brazilian framing tendency reflects sound strategic, socio-environmental reasoning, and discuss circumstances in which attributing such events to climate change-and, by extension, attribution science-can be ineffective for policy action on climate change and other socio-environmental issues in need of public pressure and preventive action. The case study has implications beyond Brazil by begging greater attention to policies and politics in particular places before assuming that attribution science and discursive emphasis on the climate role in extreme events are the most strategic means of achieving climate mitigation and disaster preparedness. Factors at play in Brazil might also structure extreme events attribution politics in other countries, not least some other countries of the global South.

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“…Similarly, using over-time data, Aamodt and Stensdal (2017) bring together ACF and comparative politics approaches to understand climate change policy adoption in three developing nations. Climate coalitions advanced a climate policy agenda through confrontation in Brazil, cooperation in China, and complementary strategies in India (Aamodt & Stensdal, 2017). Berardo, Olivier, and Lavers (2015) advance Ecology of Games (EOG) scholarship by examining how exogenous events can structure a complex governance system.…”

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Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

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Policy scholars have effectively leveraged policy process models, theories, and frameworks to respond to a variety of important environmental questions. For example, how do environmental issues arrive on the agendas of policymakers? What factors contribute to environmental policy change? What are the designs and effects of institutions (e.g., policies or cultural norms) on environmental governance? In this review, we survey the field of policy process scholarship, focusing on environmental governance, with three objectives. The first objective is to catalog the policy process models, theories, and frameworks most often featured in studies of environmental governance. The second is to capture the methodological choices commonly employed in the application of these models, theories, and frameworks in environmental domains. The third is to identify how these approaches deal with issues central to environmental governance research, including time, space, and policy scale. We aim to identify trends and strategies for integrating key considerations of scale into empirical policy process scholarship.

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Seizing policy windows: Policy Influence of climate advocacy coalitions in Brazil, China, and India, 2000–2015

Cited by 40 publications

References 44 publications

Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective

Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

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