What next for local government climate emergency declarations? The gap between rhetoric and action.
What next for local government climate emergency declarations? The gap between rhetoric and action.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10584-021-03147-4
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Fankhauser S
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文献类型：
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作者：
Howarth C;Lane M;Fankhauser S
与其他国家一样，英国也出现了地方气候紧急状态的扩散。虽然这些声明被解释为是一种雄心的展示，但人们对它们是如何以及为什么会出现以及这对接下来发生的事情会产生什么影响知之甚少。以英国伦敦为重点，我们通过半结构化访谈收集证据，与参与传播气候紧急声明的专家和从业人员进行批判性地探讨这些声明是如何以及为什么出现的，以及它们被认为对不同的地方行为者发挥的各种不同作用。我们的研究结果揭示了地方政府宣布气候紧急状态的四个过程（从上到下主动，从上到下被动，从下到上被动）和三个相互交织的目的（意图声明，作为一种政治姿态，刺激当地行动）。我们认为，这三个目的联合收割机和合并，以关联的气候紧急状态的声明与地方的减排责任，留下很少的分析空间，以质疑标量断开之间的直接性的叙事在地方规模和缓慢燃烧（和）全球性的威胁的问题。如果这些紧急声明是改变气候变化治理的一个机会，那么“下一步怎么办？”需要更深入、彻底和建设性地参与《宣言》预期将促成的气候行动类型，同时考虑这如何与地方政府的现有责任和资源基础保持一致。
The UK, like other countries, has seen a proliferation of declarations of local climate emergencies. While these declarations have been interpreted as a demonstration of ambition, little is known about how and why they actually came about when they did and the implications this will have for what happens next. Focusing on London, UK, we present evidence collected via semi-structured interviews with experts and practitioners involved in the propagation of climate emergency declarations to critically explore how and why these declarations emerged, and the various different roles they are perceived to play for different local actors. Our findings reveal four journeys to local government declaration of a climate emergency (made actively from above, passively from above, actively from below, and passively from across) and three interwoven purposes (statements of intent, acting as a political gesture, and stimulating local action). We argue that these three purposes combine and coalesce to correlate the declaration of climate emergency with a local responsibility for emissions reduction, leaving little analytical space to question the scalar disconnect between the immediacy of the narrative at local scales and the slow-burning (and) global nature of the threat in question. If these emergency declarations are to be an opportunity for change in the governance of climate change, then the question of ‘what next?’ requires more in-depth, thorough and constructive engagement with the type of climate action the declarations are expected to induce while considering how this aligns with existing responsibilities and resource bases of local government.
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发表时间：
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