Article ID: CBB001320850

Climate Discourse Complexes, National Climate Regimes and Australian Climate Policy (2013)

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This paper develops the concepts of the climate discourse complex, and national climate policy regime, in order to analyse significant patterns in Australian national climate politics over the twenty-five years from 1988 to 2013. Six major discursive fields --- scientific, ethical, economic, technological, political/legal, and everyday life--- contribute to the ensemble of discourses that constitute a climate discourse complex. The climate discourse complex in turn serves to frame and discipline climate debate and the articulation of a national climate policy regime. The composition of Australia's climate discourse complex has been dominated by the economic discursive field. Debates over old and new economic discourses have been the key drivers of and constraints on the trajectory of Australia's climate policy regime for much of the period under consideration. These debates have diminished and sometimes marginalized the influence of scientific, ethical and other discourses, contributing to Australia's weak mitigation ambition. The paper also suggests that significant changes in Australian climate discourses and Australia's climate discourse complex have largely been initiated by factors external to Australia, with the major shift occurring in the period 2006/2007.

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Authors & Contributors
Kurtulmus, A Faik
Irzik, Gürol
Ted Lefroy
Luciana L. Porfirio
Yokoyama, Hiromi M.
VandeWall, Holly R.
Concepts
Public policy
Science and politics
Science and government
Government sponsored science
Science and society
Science and technology, relationships
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Australia
United States
Japan
Queensland (Australia)
Italy
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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