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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02642-z
	When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective
	Lahsen M.; Couto G.A.; Lorenzoni I.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	213
结束页码	233
卷号	158 期号:2
英文摘要	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. © 2019, The Author(s).
英文关键词	attribution politics; Brazil; climate change; disasters; extreme events; framing; global South; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Disaster prevention; Disasters; Public policy; Weather information services; attribution politics; Brazil; Extreme events; framing; global South; United States; Climate change; climate change; conceptual framework; disaster management; extreme event; farming system; mitigation; nature-society relations; policy implementation; politics; strategic approach; Brazil; United States
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147330
作者单位	School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, PO Box 8130, Wageningen, 6700 EW, Netherlands; Earth System Science Center, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Av. dos Astronautas, 1758 - Jd. Granja, São José dos Campos, SP 12227-010, Brazil; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lahsen M.,Couto G.A.,Lorenzoni I.. When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective[J],2020,158(2).
APA	Lahsen M.,Couto G.A.,&Lorenzoni I..(2020).When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective.Climatic Change,158(2).
MLA	Lahsen M.,et al."When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective".Climatic Change 158.2(2020).