Framing has long been a central construct in scholarship on the role of rhetoric and discourse in the policy process. Research on policy framing and identity thus far has neglected the role of place‐based identity, focusing instead on identity constructs such as race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Through a mixed methods analysis of transcripts of City Council meetings in Philadelphia from 2007 to 2017, we analyze how policy makers, local interest groups, and national/regional interest groups employ place‐based framing to define, explain, and propose solutions to environmental problems. We contrast local place‐based frames with more abstract global frames that center arguments for policy change on the national or global implications of environmental problems. Our results reveal that place‐based framing is a dominant mode of discourse in Philadelphia environmental policy discussions and that actors may employ frames strategically so as to appeal to place‐based identities and to further political goals.

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地方环境政治中基于场所的身份和框架

长期以来，框架化一直是学术中关于修辞和话语在政策过程中的作用的中心构架。迄今为止，对政策框架和身份的研究都忽略了基于地点的身份的作用，而只关注种族，阶级，性别和种族等身份构造。通过对2007年至2017年在费城举行的市政委员会会议记录的混合方法分析，我们分析了决策者，地方利益集团和国家/地区利益集团如何利用基于场所的框架来定义，解释和提出解决环境问题的方案。我们将以地方为基础的框架与更为抽象的全球框架进行了对比，后者将政策变化的论点集中在环境问题对国家或全球的影响上。