@Article{LahsenRibo:2022:PoAtEx,
               author = "Lahsen, Myanna Hvid and Ribot, Jesse",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {American 
                         University}",
                title = "Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate 
                         change",
              journal = "Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change",
                 year = "2022",
               volume = "13",
               number = "1",
                pages = "e750",
                month = "Jan./Feb.",
                 note = "{Pr{\^e}mio CAPES Elsevier 2023 - ODS 8: Trabalho decente e 
                         crescimento econ{\^o}mico}",
             abstract = "Climate change certainly shapes weather events. However, 
                         describing climate and weather as the cause of disasters can be 
                         misleading, since disasters are caused by pre-existing fragilities 
                         and inequalities on the ground. Analytic frames that attribute 
                         disaster to climate can divert attention from these place-based 
                         vulnerabilities and their socio-political causes. Thus, while 
                         politicians may want to blame crises on climate change, members of 
                         the public may prefer to hold government accountable for 
                         inadequate investments in flood or drought prevention and 
                         precarious living conditions. To be both strategic and moral, 
                         framing choices must therefore be sensitive to context-dependent 
                         political meanings and particularities, and to how the values 
                         implicit within analytic frames about the causes of disasters 
                         shape policy responses. Such sensitivity requires multicausal 
                         analysis of weather-linked disasters to illuminate a broader range 
                         of means to reduce the damages associated with climate change and 
                         weather extremes. Through examples from around the world, and 
                         especially Brazil, we discuss how and why climate-centric disaster 
                         framing can erase from viewand, thus, from policy agendasthe very 
                         socio-economic and political factors that most centrally cause 
                         vulnerability and suffering in weather extremes and disasters. We 
                         also offer a theoretical discussion of why attribution is not 
                         neutral. Analytic frameworks always embed choices about factors 
                         that matter, and thus are inherently normative and consequential 
                         for understandings of responsibility and action. This article is 
                         categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > 
                         Climate Science and Decision Making. Highlight: Attributing crises 
                         only to climate is inadequate from a mechanical, moral, and 
                         strategic policy points of view.",
                  doi = "10.1002/wcc.750",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.750",
                 issn = "1757-7780",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Lahsen2022_politics.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "21 maio 2024"
}