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PUBLICATIONID : 47041
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 11
TYPE : Review
TITLE : Discursive stability meets climate instability: A critical exploration of the concept of 'climate stabilization' in contemporary climate policy
ORIG_TITLE : Discursive stability meets climate instability: A critical exploration of the concept of 'climate stabilization' in contemporary climate policy
AUTHOR : Boykoff, MT, D Frame and S Randalls
FIRST_AUTHOR : Boykoff, MT, D Frame and S Randalls
AUTHOR_COUNT : 1
ADDRESS : [Boykoff, Maxwell T.] Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; [Frame, David] Univ Oxford, Smith Sch Enterprise & Environm, Oxford OX1 2BQ, England; [Randalls, Samuel] UCL, Dept Geog, London WC1E 6BT, England
PUBLISHER : ELSEVIER SCI LTD
FIRSTAUTHOREMPLOYER : 1
ABBREV_JOURNAL : Glob. Environ. Change-Human Policy Dimens.
BEGINPAGE : 53
ENDPAGE : 64
VOLUME : 20
ISSUE : 1
PUBLISH_DATE : FEB
YEAR : 2010
RESOURCE : WOS:000274672500008
CITATION : 8
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2012-10-11 11:38:32
ISSN : 0959-3780
IDS : 557MF
DOI : 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.09.003
ABSTRACT : The goals and objectives of 'climate stabilization' feature heavily in contemporary environmental policy and in this paper we trace the factors that have contributed to the rise of this concept and the scientific ideas behind it. In particular, we explore how the stabilization-based discourse has become dominant through developments in climate science, environmental economics and policymaking. That this discourse is tethered to contemporary policy proposals is unsurprising; but that it has remained relatively free of critical scrutiny can be associated with fears of unsettling often-tenuous political processes taking place at multiple scales. Nonetheless, we posit that the fundamental premises behind stabilization targets are badly matched to the actual problem of the intergenerational management of climate change, scientifically and politically, and destined to fail. By extension, we argue that policy proposals for climate stabilization are problematic, infeasible, and hence impede more productive policy action on climate change. There are gains associated with an expansion and reconsideration of the range of possible policy framings of the problem, which are likely to help us to more capably and dynamically achieve goals of decarbonizing and modernizing the energy system, as well as diminishing anthropogenic contributions to climate change. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS : Climate stabilization; Science-policy; Discourse; Climate change; History of climate science
KEYWORD_PLUS : DANGEROUS ANTHROPOGENIC INTERFERENCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; CARBON-DIOXIDE; SCIENTIFIC ADVICE; PROTECTION POLICY; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; SCIENCE; SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE; LIMITS
AREA : Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geography
FIRST_AUTHOR_EMAIL : boykoff@colorado.edu; dframe@atm.ox.ac.uk; s.randalls@ucl.ac.uk
PUBLICATION : GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
PLACE : OXFORD
LANGUAGE : English
SERIAL : 47041
PAGES : 53-64
APPROVED : yes
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
FIRST_AUTHOR_ADDRESS : Boykoff, MT (reprint author), Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, 1333 Grandview Ave,201, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
AUTHOR_OTHER_FORM : Boykoff, Maxwell T.; Frame, David; Randalls, Samuel
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PUBLISHER_ADDRESS : THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, OXON, ENGLAND
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Entered by : Maxwell Boykoff