Project description
How extreme weather events do (not) impact climate crisis politics
Climate change is arguably the biggest crisis that many countries across the globe face during the 21st century. It threatens people worldwide with food and water scarcity, extreme heat, increased flooding and economic loss. However, many of the biggest consequences are not immediate. This makes it hard to ensure that governments sign international climate agreements which citizens live up to. In this context, the EU-funded Weather Events project will investigate whether the occurrence of extreme weather events like floods and heatwaves influences climate crisis perceptions and actions, analysing the political impact of such events in American, Dutch and Austrian public spheres. The findings will benefit policymakers and governments, helping them better handle the climate crisis through their responses to extreme weather events.
Objective
Tackling the climate crisis in an appropriate way - making governments sign international climate agreements and letting citizens live up to them - proves difficult. A much-given explanation for this problem is the fact that many of the crisis' consequences are only about to happen in a distant future complicates making them visible and tangible in the present. However, extreme weather events (e.g. floods, heatwaves, hurricanes) might have the potential to break this pattern. This project investigates this potential, through analyzing the political impact of extreme weather in the American, Dutch, and Austrian public spheres. It will include three sub-studies: 1) mixed-method analyses (computational and qualitative investigations) of a wide variety of extreme weather events in newspapers, parliamentary debates, and policy documents from the three country contexts, to research to what extent, how, and why they impact political perceptions of the climate crisis; 2) a comparison of these results to analyses (based on similar data and methods) of the impact of terrorist events, occurrences which often seem to invoke more immediate and substantial political impact than extreme weather events; 3) interviews with public actors (journalists, politicians, scientists), to research the cultural and institutional opportunities and constrains they face in the (non-)creation of extreme weather event impact. All together, this project adds to two relatively under-developed sociological fields: environmental sociology and the sociology of events. On a societal level, it can potentially help politicians and policy makers with how they can, through their responses to extreme weather events, better handle the climate crisis.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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3000 Leuven
Belgium
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