DOI: 10.1002/wcc.332
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84922666880
论文题名: Labeling opinions in the climate debate: A critical review
作者: Howarth C ; C ; , Sharman A ; G
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2015
卷: 6, 期: 2 起始页码: 239
结束页码: 254
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Technology
; Academic literature
; Climate debates
; Critical review
; Opinion formation
; Policy debates
; Public understanding
; Science policies
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; climate change
; communication
; environmental policy
; policy approach
; policy making
英文摘要: Labels play an important role in opinion formation, helping to actively construct perceptions and reality, and place individuals into context with others. As a highly complex issue, climate change invites a range of different opinions and dialogs about its causes, impacts, and action required. However, the polarized labels used in the climate change debate, such as skeptic or alarmist, are both reflecting and helping to frame the debate as antagonistic and combative. This paper critically reviews the literature on climate opinion labels, and the efforts taken within an academic context to categorize differences, create new taxonomies of more detailed sub-labels, or create or argue for the use of new labels such as denier or contrarian. By drawing on research on typologies of climate opinions, problems with labeling constructs and discussions around context and the implications for science-policy dialog, we argue that climate labels, both as constructed in the academic literature, and as applied in science and policy debates, are serving to isolate, exclude, ignore, and dismiss claims-makers of all types from constructive dialog. It suggests that context has been inadequately considered by the literature and that an emphasis on labels is accentuating division and diverting attention away from a focus on underlying motivations, which may be more conducive toward increasing public understanding and encouraging communication across this polarized debate. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76285
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Geography and the Environment, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Howarth C,C,, Sharman A,et al. Labeling opinions in the climate debate: A critical review[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2015-01-01,6(2)