气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Taming São Paulo's floods: Dominant discourses, exclusionary practices, and the complicity of the media

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101940
	Taming São Paulo's floods: Dominant discourses, exclusionary practices, and the complicity of the media
	Henrique K.P.; Tschakert P.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	58
英文摘要	Climate change leads to more frequent and severe flooding, urging cities to adapt to protect their populations and assets. Despite exacerbated hazards, governments repeatedly draw on ‘tried-and-true’ approaches to protect the status quo, often with serious adverse effects for the poor and vulnerable. Yet, such dominant approaches do not go unchallenged as the media and other actors prompt public debate to assess flood impacts, scrutinise government decisions, and perhaps even promote alternative practices. News outlets are not, however, balanced or value-free; the events portrayed and the voices (and knowledges) recognised and included in media coverage deeply influence whether and how flooding is incorporated in policy. Focusing on São Paulo, Brazil, we examine how the media framed flood events and conveyed solutions during the city's worst floods in recorded history. We demonstrate how competing media outlets largely depicted flooding as a natural phenomenon to be solved by governments and experts through existing techno-managerial practices, mirroring governmental partisan plans for adaptive action. In doing so, the media failed to offer a democratic space for public discussion, citizen contestation, and the advancement of alternative trajectories for adaptation. We posit that inclusive trajectories that address entrenched vulnerabilities and projected climate change will benefit from rigorous ethical debates around the media's role in disaster coverage while strategically leveraging alternative media outlets as public pedagogy and agenda-setting tools. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Adaptation; Cities; Climate change; Framing; Newspaper
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; decision making; flood control; flooding; media role; risk perception; state role; vulnerability; Brazil; Sao Paulo [Brazil]
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/125174
作者单位	University of Western Australia, UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Henrique K.P.,Tschakert P.. Taming São Paulo's floods: Dominant discourses, exclusionary practices, and the complicity of the media[J],2019,58.
APA	Henrique K.P.,&Tschakert P..(2019).Taming São Paulo's floods: Dominant discourses, exclusionary practices, and the complicity of the media.Global Environmental change,58.
MLA	Henrique K.P.,et al."Taming São Paulo's floods: Dominant discourses, exclusionary practices, and the complicity of the media".Global Environmental change 58(2019).