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- Title
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada.
- Authors
Stoddart, Mark C. J.; Yang, Yixi
- Abstract
As a global problem with diverse local and regional impacts, climate change is an inherently multilevel issue. Focusing on Atlantic Canada, we examine regional‐local dimensions of Canadian climate politics, drawing on data from six legacy newspapers (two national outlets, four regional outlets). Claims about the importance of provincial governments and municipalities have low levels of media visibility and are more salient in regional news outlets. However, federal, provincial, local government and political party sources articulate the ideas that regional and local actors have important roles to play in climate action. While these ideas are not highly visible, they are diffuse and high consensus across multilevel political, civil society, and other actors. Articulations of the importance of regional and local climate governance tend to connect this with issues of carbon pricing and other economic dimensions of climate governance. While a few municipal actors are highly visible in the mediated policy network, local policy actors tend to receive little visibility in either national or regional media spheres. By contrast, regional actors from provincial governments and political parties are among the top tier of actors in both national and provincial media. Our analysis highlights the significance of regional political arenas and actors that have received less attention than national governments or municipalities as sites of climate governance.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT policy on climate change; CIVIL society; CARBON pricing; CLIMATE change mitigation; PROVINCIAL governments; LOCAL elections
- Publication
Review of Policy Research, 2023, Vol 40, Issue 6, p1144
- ISSN
1541-132X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ropr.12510