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DOI	10.1002/wcc.750
	Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change
	Lahsen M.; Ribot J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1757-7780
英文摘要	Climate change certainly shapes weather events. However, describing climate and weather as the cause of disasters can be misleading, since disasters are caused by pre-existing fragilities and inequalities on the ground. Analytic frames that attribute disaster to climate can divert attention from these place-based vulnerabilities and their socio-political causes. Thus, while politicians may want to blame crises on climate change, members of the public may prefer to hold government accountable for inadequate investments in flood or drought prevention and precarious living conditions. To be both strategic and moral, framing choices must therefore be sensitive to context-dependent political meanings and particularities, and to how the values implicit within analytic frames about the causes of disasters shape policy responses. Such sensitivity requires multicausal analysis of weather-linked disasters to illuminate a broader range of means to reduce the damages associated with climate change and weather extremes. Through examples from around the world, and especially Brazil, we discuss how and why climate-centric disaster framing can erase from view—and, thus, from policy agendas—the very socio-economic and political factors that most centrally cause vulnerability and suffering in weather extremes and disasters. We also offer a theoretical discussion of why attribution is not neutral. Analytic frameworks always embed choices about factors that matter, and thus are inherently normative and consequential for understandings of responsibility and action. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Decision Making. Highlight: Attributing crises only to climate is inadequate from a mechanical, moral, and strategic policy points of view. © 2021 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
关键词	blaming politics causal attribution climate change disaster experience extreme events media vulnerability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Decision making; Disaster prevention; Disasters; Economics; Blaming politic; Causal attributions; Experience; Extreme disasters; Extreme events; Medium; Place-based; Vulnerability; Weather events; Weather extremes; Climate change
来源期刊	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249659
作者单位	Environmental Change, TEMA, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil; Global Environmental Politics, American University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lahsen M.,Ribot J.. Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change[J],2021.
APA	Lahsen M.,&Ribot J..(2021).Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change.
MLA	Lahsen M.,et al."Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change".Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (2021).