| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.012
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| ISBN | 0959-3780
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| Choosing a dangerous limit for climate change: public representations of the decision making process. |
| Shaw, Chris
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| 发表日期 | 2013-01-29
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| 出处 | Global Environmental Change
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| 出版者 | Elsevier
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 页码 | 563-571
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper examines how the claim of a two degrees dangerous limit to climate change is represented in the public sphere. The cultural circuits model is used to frame a discourse analysis and content analysis of UK news media, popular science books and advocacy literature. This analysis is supported with perspectives gleaned from semi-structured interviews with a range of expert actors. The results show that news reports largely ignore the two degree limit and where it is mentioned it is validated through invocation of anonymous expert knowledge. Discourses which do recognise uncertainties surrounding definitions of dangerous change still support the two degree limit. Primary sources show a rejection of the two degree limit as a division between safe and dangerous climate change. Arguments made by advocates that the concept at least allows the public to debate complex climate science is not supported by the manner in which the limit is constructed in public discourses. The results demonstrate that public representations of the two degree limit idea have not evolved, despite developments in climate science casting doubt on the veracity of the two degree limit. The paper concludes that framing climate policy within the two degree metric is not delivering the hoped for emission reductions and it may therefore be appropriate for public discourses to recognise the role of non-scientific factors in defining how much climate change is dangerous. Such a change might prove an important step in the development of a more participatory debate about climate policy. |
| 特色分类 | GE170 Environmental policy
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| 关键词 | Dangerous climate change
Uncertainty
Public engagement
Public understanding of science
Popular media
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| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/44624/
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| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468115
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Shaw, Chris. Choosing a dangerous limit for climate change: public representations of the decision making process.. 2013.
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