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Mr. David Meiklejohn
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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Journal article
Published: 19 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Governments commit substantial time and resources engaging individuals and households to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These approaches, based largely upon behaviour change theories, have been criticised for their limited reach and effectiveness by practice theorists who have offered an alternative approach, broadening the focus beyond individuals. While practice theory has provided valuable insights into the energy consuming activities of households it has gained limited traction as a way to analyse and inform government practices and policy making. We address this by applying a practice lens to climate change community engagement practices performed by Australian local governments. Drawing on 29 interviews with practitioners and analysis of 37 Australian local government climate strategies, we examine the bundle of practices that constitute climate change community engagement: recruitment, engagement and evaluation. We consider how these practices are situated vis-a-vis other climate governance practices (regulation, service delivery, infrastructure provision and advocacy) as well as internal local government processes. Using a practice lens reveals the weaknesses in current engagement approaches which we contend are limiting efficacy. We draw upon Spurling et al.’s conceptualisation of re-crafting, re-integrating and substituting practices to consider how climate change community engagement practices might be reconfigured to improve their effectiveness.

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David Meiklejohn; Susie Moloney; Sarah Bekessy. Applying a Practice Lens to Local Government Climate Change Governance: Rethinking Community Engagement Practices. Sustainability 2021, 13, 995 .

AMA Style

David Meiklejohn, Susie Moloney, Sarah Bekessy. Applying a Practice Lens to Local Government Climate Change Governance: Rethinking Community Engagement Practices. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):995.

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David Meiklejohn; Susie Moloney; Sarah Bekessy. 2021. "Applying a Practice Lens to Local Government Climate Change Governance: Rethinking Community Engagement Practices." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 995.

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Published: 01 January 2018 in Cogent Environmental Science
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David Meiklejohn; Sarah Bekessy; Susie Moloney. Shifting practices: How the rise of rooftop solar PV has changed local government community engagement. Cogent Environmental Science 2018, 4, 1 .

AMA Style

David Meiklejohn, Sarah Bekessy, Susie Moloney. Shifting practices: How the rise of rooftop solar PV has changed local government community engagement. Cogent Environmental Science. 2018; 4 (1):1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

David Meiklejohn; Sarah Bekessy; Susie Moloney. 2018. "Shifting practices: How the rise of rooftop solar PV has changed local government community engagement." Cogent Environmental Science 4, no. 1: 1.