@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"
}