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- Title
Climate action in urban mobility: personal and political transformations.
- Authors
HOCHACHKA, GAIL; LOGAN, KATHRYN G.; RAYMOND, JAMES; MÉRIDA, WALTER
- Abstract
Although many municipalities have climate action plans with targets and goals, effective climate action still faces significant implementation gaps. Implementation can falter due to barriers for the deployment of low-carbon solutions, as well as the lack of cultural, systemic, and psychological support for such solutions. Cultural drivers and perceptions shape citizens' behaviors and can perpetuate carbon-intensive lifestyles. This paper focuses on measures in climate action planning in the Metro Vancouver region of Canada regarding transportation, which remains the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions and has a low chance of reaching its emissions-reductions targets. Shifting towards greater sustainability will entail a challenge of transformative change, involving shifts in systems, behaviors, worldviews, and cultures. In implementation, the full complexity of the climate action challenge becomes most evident. A scoping review of climate action documentation and semi-structured interviews are used to examine (1) barriers to effective implementation, (2) socio-cultural perceptions and approaches to public engagement and (3) novel areas for transformational action. The study found a need to reweight the focus of climate action, which is predominantly set on techno-managerial efforts, also to include communication, narratives and broader systems change, which are the key barriers to low-carbon urban mobility.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; GREENHOUSE gases; SEMI-structured interviews; COMMUNITY-school relationships; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Buildings & Cities, 2022, Vol 3, Issue 1, p1019
- ISSN
2632-6655
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5334/bc.249