Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Fischer Anke, Peters Vera, Neebe Mirjam, Vávra Jan, Kriel Antoinette, Lapka Miloslav, Megyesi Boldizsár
    Climate Change? No, Wise Resource Use is the Issue: Social Representations of Energy, Climate Change and the Future
    in European Environment/Environmental Policy and Governance , Volume 22, Issue 3, May-June ,  2012 ,  161-176
    Recent social scientific research has often dealt with public perceptions of climate change as an isolated topic. In contrast, we explored through qualitative interviews (n = 202) across five European countries how members of the public conceptualized climate change within a wider context of energy and the future, drawing on social representation theory. Our analysis suggests that, rather than separating between environmental issues, participants interpreted both climate change and energy consumption in a context of unsustainable resource use. Views on climate change were often very sceptical, but the unsustainability of contemporary resource use was almost unanimously of great concern. However, despite their strong plea for political change towards sustainability, many interviewees found it challenging to translate their views into behaviour. We argue that obstacles for behavioural change might lie in the tensions between cognitive, normative and affective aspects of people's representations, and conclude with recommendations for European climate change mitigation policies. Full text available: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eet.1585/pdf
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