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

Sara Kristine Gløjmar Berthou, Betina Vind Ebbesen

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Environmental Planning and Management
Volume59
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)501-517
Number of pages17
ISSN0964-0568
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Mar 2016

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