Environmental Politics ( IF 5.147 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 , DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1892983 Susan Park 1
ABSTRACT
2019 was the second hottest year on record, with enhanced ice melts, sea level rises, heatwaves, droughts, and unprecedented large-scale wildfires of record intensity. Here I chart a new research agenda for understanding the interconnections between human behaviour, environmental disasters, and governing a more disaster-prone world. I argue that sovereign states’ technological responses to environmental disasters as risks to be reduced systemically ignores human contributions to environmental hazards and vulnerabilities. Using a constructivist analysis, I analyse states’ understandings of, and capacity to respond to, cascading environmental disasters at multiple scales according to what they collectively see, what they know, and how they act in terms of emergency preparedness and planning. Revealing the inadequacies of sovereign states’ understanding of what constitutes environmental disasters absent their role in them, brings us closer to better governing cascading environmental disasters in the 21st Century.
中文翻译:
主权国家在 21 世纪环境灾难中的作用
摘要
2019 年是有记录以来第二个最热的年份,冰层融化加剧、海平面上升、热浪、干旱以及前所未有的强度创纪录的大规模野火。在这里,我制定了一个新的研究议程,以了解人类行为、环境灾难和管理一个更容易发生灾难的世界之间的相互联系。我认为,主权国家对环境灾难的技术反应是系统地减少风险,忽略了人类对环境危害和脆弱性的贡献。使用建构主义分析,我分析了各国对多尺度级联环境灾难的理解和应对能力,根据他们共同看到的、他们所知道的以及他们在应急准备和规划方面的行动。圣世纪。