New article: "organized credibility enables climate action"
Hannah Teicher
Dear colleagues,
I’m happy to share my new article, “How organized credibility enables climate action: the U.S. climate security coalition as a credibility machine” recently published open access in the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. I find that “organized credibility,” in this case constructed by the climate security coalition, can pose a strong counterpoint to organized denial.
Short abstract:
Organized denial has played an outsize role in frustrating U.S. climate progress. At the same time, a constellation of national security experts, think tanks and defense personnel have promoted a climate security frame for over a decade to advance climate action. This climate security coalition constructs credibility, serving as an implicit counterpoint to organized denial. This coalition accomplishes a form of multilevel governance, advancing adaptation through planning, policy, and consolidating resources. In this case, organized credibility helps to overcome ineffective framing and governmental fragmentation, two of the most persistent barriers to urban climate action. In addition to these concrete results, recognizing this non-environmental approach as an aspect of a credibility machine confers it power as an organizing strategy. This has potential to translate to other domains, further extending the constituency for climate action beyond the usual suspects.
Hannah M. Teicher M.Arch. PhD
Researcher in Residence, Built Environment
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
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