Constructing Climate Change: Exploring How Cities Frame Climate Change in the Arctic

Summary

Framing local weather coverage actions to be acceptable by numerous stakeholders in cities poses a crucial job for city governance. Regardless of the proliferation of research on city local weather change governance up to now a long time, framing as a mechanism for agenda-setting in native policymaking has acquired little consideration. This paper attracts on the literature on local weather change discourse to research the content material of framing and its reasoning within the two municipalities situated within the Arctic: Murmansk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway). Utilizing qualitative analysis strategies, together with semi-structured interviews, doc evaluations, and discourse evaluation, the paper finds that local weather change is absent within the political discourse in Murmansk. On the similar time, Tromsø authorities acknowledge local weather change as a worldwide and an area downside and incorporate it into native insurance policies. It additionally identifies three elements that designate the (non)framing of local weather change by the municipal authorities: (1) native authority to border local weather points, (2) native political celebration branches’ local weather preferences, and (3) prior experiences with climate extremes and scientific information. On condition that cities within the Arctic are on the entrance strains of local weather change, studying from their framing experiences, different cities throughout the globe can seize the alternatives for his or her efforts to deal with climatic impacts.