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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.03.007
	Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC "Worlds"-A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report
	Fløttum K.; Gasper D.; St. Clair A.L.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	38
英文摘要	The paper investigates topics, emphases, frames and absences in the Summary for Policymakers parts of the three Working Group reports in the IPCC 5th Assessment Report and the Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report. It explores similarities and differences by using various tools of lexical and discourse analysis, combining quantitative and qualitative methods. The main results are these: First, each Working Group's Summary reflects not only the Working Group's distinctive mandate but also a distinctive intellectual framing. Second, although there are some significant differences in the emphases given to different themes from the Working Groups, the Synthesis Summary covers the main topics of the three other Summaries, and constitutes a relatively integrated Summary of the complete Assessment Report. Third, we find though that the Synthesis Summary centrally follows up the risk framing and language which are prominent in Working Group II but semi-absent in the other Working Groups, as part of constructing a policy-relevant statement from the three distinctive reports. In addition, the Synthesis Summary makes use of linguistic devices which contribute to 'amplify' the strength of statements, as part of transferring messages effectively from the scientific context to a policy-maker audience. Fourth, we find that the style and tone of the IPCC Summaries conduce also to important absences and imbalances in emphasis: main victims of climate change (particular groups of vulnerable people) remain virtually invisible in the Summaries, unlike the impacts in nature and ecological systems or the aggregate economic impacts, and correspondingly the challenges, options and opportunities for action remain relatively underdeveloped in the analysis. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Absences; Emphases; Framing; IPCC; Lexical-discursive analysis
学科领域	climate change; comparative study; conceptual framework; economic impact; environmental assessment; global perspective; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; policy making; suspended particulate matter; tropical environment
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; comparative study; conceptual framework; economic impact; environmental assessment; global perspective; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; policy making; suspended particulate matter; tropical environment
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117384
作者单位	Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, P.B. 7805, Bergen, NO-5020, Norway; International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 29776, The Hague, NL 2502 LT, Netherlands; Climate Change Program, DNV GL Strategic Research and Innovation, Veritas veien 1, Høvik, NO-1308, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fløttum K.,Gasper D.,St. Clair A.L.. Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC "Worlds"-A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report[J],2016,38.
APA	Fløttum K.,Gasper D.,&St. Clair A.L..(2016).Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC "Worlds"-A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report.Global Environmental Change,38.
MLA	Fløttum K.,et al."Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC "Worlds"-A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report".Global Environmental Change 38(2016).