Essays about: "climate emergency declarations"

Found 3 essays containing the words climate emergency declarations.

1. 1. Slow Emergency – Urgent Action? Exploring the role of municipal climate emergency statements in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Josefine Henman; [2022]
   Keywords : Climate change framings; climate emergency declarations; Swedish municipal climate action; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In recent years, more than 2000 jurisdictions worldwide have declared a climate emergency, which covers over 1 billion people. While such declarations have been found to have the potential to spark transformative climate action, the scholarly knowledge of this emerging phenomenon remains limited and there is much disagreement about the merits and effects of climate emergency framings. READ MORE

3. 2. “This is not a drill” - but is this a climate emergency? : On co-opted activist discourses, municipalism and institutionalized double realities in the city of Barcelona

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Clàudia Custodio; [2020]
   Keywords : municipalism; right to the city; climate emergency; social inertia; double reality; techno-fetishism; climate justice; post-political; repoliticization; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The worsening climatic condition, together with a renewed wave of climate movements have spurred declarations of climate emergency by governmental institutions worldwide. In the city of Barcelona, unique for its social movement history and activist city council, such a declaration was issued on January 15th, 2020. READ MORE

4. 3. Protest Movements and the Climate Emergency Declarations of 2019: A New Social Media Logic to Connect and Participate in Politics

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Joseph Doolen; [2020]
   Keywords : Social media logic; participatory culture; connective action; Twitter; climate change; political participation; collective action; identity; protest movements;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between contemporary climate protest movements (Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future) and governmental bodies in European countries that declared a climate emergency in 2019. The primary contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate how emerging communication practices by these movements compare to the perceived influence of such practices among political decisionmakers in their governing bodies’ votes for a climate emergency declaration. READ MORE