Essays about: "Reykjavík municipality"

Found 1 essay containing the words Reykjavík municipality.

  1. 1. Preventing knowable risk at the cost of long-term thinking : a critical analysis of the discursive construction of adaptation in Icelandic policies

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Silja Elvarsdóttir; [2020]
    Keywords : climate change adaptation and mitigation; policy discourse; risk; problematization; What’s the Problem Represented to be?; Reykjavík municipality; Government of Iceland;

    Abstract : The discursive construction of climate change adaptation as a policy issue gives rise to material practices that have real effects on people‘s lives, and should thus be critically interrogated. In the realm of adaptation policies, the Nordic countries have been at the forefront, but for Icelandic decision-makers the topic remains relevantly novel. READ MORE