@Article{LahsenCoutLore:2020:PoDiAt,
               author = "Lahsen, Myanna Hvid and Couto, Gabriela de Azevedo and Lorenzoni, 
                         Irene",
          affiliation = "{Wageningen University} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {University of East Anglia}",
                title = "When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster 
                         attribution in international perspective",
              journal = "Climatic Change",
                 year = "2020",
               volume = "158",
               number = "2",
                pages = "212--233",
                month = "jan.",
             keywords = "climate change . disasters. extreme events. attribution politics. 
                         global South .Brazil . United States. framing.",
             abstract = "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 changeand, by extension, attribution sciencecan 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.",
                  doi = "10.1007/s10584-019-02642-z",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02642-z",
                 issn = "0165-0009",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "lahsen_when.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}