Local governing of climate change in Denmark: recasting citizens as consumers

TY - JOUR

T1 - Local governing of climate change in Denmark

T2 - recasting citizens as consumers

AU - Berthou, Sara Kristine Gløjmar

AU - Ebbesen, Betina Vind

PY - 2016/3/3

Y1 - 2016/3/3

N2 - This paper is concerned with the ways in which Danish municipalities seek to mitigate climate change through a range of governance strategies. Through the analysis of ten municipal climate plans using the framework of Mitchell Dean, as well as extensive ethnographic fieldwork in two municipalities, this paper explores how local climate change mitigation is shaped by particular rationalities and technologies of government, and thus seeks to illustrate how the strategies set out in the plans construe climate change mitigation from a certain perspective, thereby rendering some solutions more likely than others and recasting citizens as passive consumers who are to be guided to consume in more climate-friendly ways in the process.

AB - This paper is concerned with the ways in which Danish municipalities seek to mitigate climate change through a range of governance strategies. Through the analysis of ten municipal climate plans using the framework of Mitchell Dean, as well as extensive ethnographic fieldwork in two municipalities, this paper explores how local climate change mitigation is shaped by particular rationalities and technologies of government, and thus seeks to illustrate how the strategies set out in the plans construe climate change mitigation from a certain perspective, thereby rendering some solutions more likely than others and recasting citizens as passive consumers who are to be guided to consume in more climate-friendly ways in the process.

U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2015.1021306

DO - 10.1080/09640568.2015.1021306

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0964-0568

VL - 59

SP - 501

EP - 517

JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

IS - 3

ER -