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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Changing Arctic : Changing World
- 2013. - 1
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In: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137266224 ; , s. 157-171
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Eyes on the Ice
- 2013
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In: Le Monde diplomatique. - 1478-6591. ; :November, s. 10-11
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- A new report confirms that we are responsible for global warming. The continued melting of the Arctic’s sea ice is now widely seen to be true. So too is the idea that this has major global consequences. Is the situation reversible?
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Global Climate Talks from Failure to Cooperation and Hope : Swedish News Framings of COP15 and COP21
- 2017
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In: Environmental Communication. - : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 11:5, s. 682-699
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to offer an analysis of how two UN Conferences of Parties, COP15 in Copenhagen 2009 and COP21 in Paris 2015, were covered and debated in Swedish newspapers. Two national and two regional newspapers were selected for the study, and a qualitative frame analysis was conducted on 309 articles. A typology of frames applicable to science-related policy and climate change debates was used and its relevance for global climate summit context was discussed. Having territory in the Arctic region, indigenous populations affected by climate change measures, and political and public sensitivity to environmental issues, the climate debate has particular significance in the Swedish case. Findings indicate a trust in the role of national and supra-national governance to address climate change problems, but also that newspapers in Sweden maintained a focus on the global aspects of the two meetings, rather than framing them as surrogate battlefields for domestic politics.
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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When the ice breaks : The Arctic in the media
- 2016
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In: Curating the Future. - New York : Routledge. ; , s. 242-251
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The climate change “debate” on a global level has been partly twisted into a distorted representation by journalists operating within norms of objectivity, broad political and economic contexts and institutional restraints. To the extent that our primary sources of information are the mainstream media, such skewed representations lead not only to a grossly problematic understanding of climate change in the public realm, but to public policies premised upon misinformed decision-making and, ultimately, to increased risks for our collective future. Mediated pro and con arguments have planted doubts and uncertainties in our minds over decades. Meanwhile, climate change has remained on the world political agenda and thus in the news, with ups and downs. Or is it the other way around: because it has been on the news, climate change has been on the world political and social agenda? There is clearly a feedback loop between the two and the dynamics are complex. What we know with certainty, however, is the fact that the planet is warming and that human activities are the primary reason. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovern - mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in September 2014 in Stockholm, confirmed that scientific fact with certainty. The report further stressed that only with radical cuts in emissions can we have influence on the ever-worsening progress of climate change’s effects. Yet, based on what we see in the media, we know that even at this point in time, the political will to tackle this planetary problem that threatens our future is unlikely to be forthcoming. The Arctic is clearly at the center of these developments. The IPCC report emphasized that the Arctic sea-ice cover is very likely to continue to follow a downward slide. The Arctic sea ice has already decreased significantly, both in thickness and extent, hitting a record low of 24 percent Arctic Ocean coverage in 2012-after the record low of 29 percent in 2007, which made the headlines. The 2007 coverage was 39 percent below the 1979-2000 average, and the media started to incorporate increasingly more dramatic imagery and narratives such as starving polar bears, disappearing local cultures and global disasters. As the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media note in relation to the latest storms in Great Britain, “historic” and “epic” are terms commonly being used to describe what the BBC has called “weeks and weeks and weeks” of continuous furious rains and flooding. There is no doubt that the Arctic of today, both in the mediated public and political realms, has gained new meaning and significance. It is the bellwether of climate change, an ever-changing present showcase for ominous future scenarios. It is also a region potent with commercial possibilities, and thus a hotbed of contested interests. Rich resources becoming available, new shipping routes and opportunities arising, and questions related to sovereignty and rights have all become part of the media discourse. Media stories have pointed to the Northern Sea Route, which connects Asia and Europe by way of the northern Russian coast, as the “New Panama Canal”, with the North Pole at the center of this New World. In 2012 we witnessed the deliberately spectacular voyage of the Chinese icebreaker, Snow Dragon, from Akureyri, Iceland, across the Arctic Ocean to Shanghai. Through such narratives and debates, the northern polar region has morphed into occupying a status of center from formerly being on the planetary margins. A new Arctic cartography, illustrated in photograph-like images originating from satellite data, has entered our social imaginary. The Arctic sea-ice minima of 2007 and 2012, combined with alarming messages from the IPCC, have made it clear that a fundamental change in our public understanding of climate change is necessary. Due to variability, the rate of change follows slower pace at times. Yet, at other times, the change can be fast and furious, catching us inadequately prepared to handle its consequences. 2013 did not bring yet another Arctic sea-ice minimum, and fed into denials of global climate change as well as the credibility of climate science and scientists. However, for the Arctic, the record sea-ice lows in 2007 and 2012 also have brought a shift in our understanding: continued shrinkage is seen as inevitable, and so are major regional and global transformations. In that sense, Arctic climate change has become a meta-event of the evolving global climate. As we will explore below, our society is a media-centric one where policy, politics, culture, economics and science-to name but a few areas-are interlinked through the media. The constant co-production of media and society means that media are both produced by and producing society and social norms. Arrows of simple cause and effect are not particularly interesting to draw. However, this does not make it less interesting to study, just more complex.
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- Eriksson, Elina, 1979-, et al.
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Exceptionalism and Evasion : How Scholars Reason About Air Travel
- 2022
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In: Academic Flying and the Means of Communication. - Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9789811649103 ; , s. 159-183
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Understanding how scholars reason about their own flying habits is important when dealing with the problems of large emissions from academic air travel. This study is based on a travel habits survey with scholars at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. KTH has relatively high emissions from air travel, but at the same time, it has a high profile in matters of sustainability and a lot of research related to this theme. One can therefore assume a high degree of knowledge about the climate crisis and the climate impact of various actions. It is also plausible that KTH scholars meet special expectations to be role models and that practices in conflict with their teaching can have consequences for the public confidence in the university. In this study, we look at how scholars reason about how emissions from their flying could be reduced. Their responses display a spectrum of varying attitudes, from climate scepticism to a commitment to radical transformation, with the majority in between, either suggesting different types of concrete changes or invoking arguments to justify the status quo. The proposed interventions, several of which are ingenious and wise, can guide university managements to strategies that have support from employees. The more reluctant arguments point to cultural and discursive habits that must be understood and met in an empathetic way.
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- Gärdebo, Johan, 1986-
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Environing Technology : Swedish Satellite Remote Sensing in the Making of Environment 1969–2001
- 2019
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The state-owned Swedish Space Corporation established a satellite remote sensing infrastructure and defined uses for the technology both within and beyond Sweden during the latter part of the twentieth century. This thesis studies Swedish satellite remote sensing as an environing technology – a technology that environs, that produces environments and our perceptions of the environment. This perspective is important in historicising Sweden’s role in developing a technology that now is used both to manage environments on a global scale and to provide an understanding of what the environment is. It is also important to understand these environing activities as motivated by and related to other aims, for example Swedish non-alignment, development aid, and the export of expertise to new markets. I ask two questions. Firstly, how did Swedish satellite remote sensing activities contribute to the making of environment? Secondly, why did the Swedish satellite remote sensing experts conduct these activities?Studying environing technologies requires combining the theoretical understandings of history of technology and environmental history and treats technology and environment as outcomes of environing activities. Methodologically, the thesis studies written and oral sources to find activities related to satellite remote sensing that take part in sensing, writing about, or shaping environments. From these activities, new understandings of technology and environment emerge over time.The thesis is structured around five empirical chapters: 1) the institutionalisation of remote sensing as part of environmental diplomacy in Sweden, 1969–1978; 2) the establishment and expansion of a French-Swedish remote sensing infrastructure, showcased by sensing the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986; 3) the export of Swedish technoscientific expertise as a form of development aid, 1983–1994; 4) the promotion of satellites as a tool for sustainable development, 1987–1993; and 5) the establishment of an environmental data centre to monitor the European environment as part of managing the expansion of the European Union, 1991–1999.Swedish satellite remote sensing experts contributed to numerous international demonstrations that emphasised the technology as a tool for sustainable development of environments on a global scale. These activities beyond Sweden, often through transnational collaborations, were undertaken to establish satellite remote sensing within Sweden. The lack of a long-term strategy for the Swedish government’s space activities forced the technoscientific experts to find ad hoc uses for their technology, of which environmental applications were the most significant.
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- Jernelöv, Arne, et al.
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Unexptected technological futures
- 2005
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In: Framtider. - : Sekretariatet för framtidsstudier, Forskningsrådsnämnden. - 0281-0492. ; :2
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