This page has only limited features, please log in for full access.

Unclaimed
Julia A. Flagg
Sociology Department and Environmental Studies Program, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320, USA

Basic Info

Basic Info is private.

Honors and Awards

The user has no records in this section


Career Timeline

The user has no records in this section.


Short Biography

The user biography is not available.
Following
Followers
Co Authors
The list of users this user is following is empty.
Following: 0 users

Feed

Journal article
Published: 24 January 2018 in Sustainability
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Costa Rica has pledged to become the first nation to become carbon neutral. This event raises the important question of how to understand this contemporary form of climate politics, given that Costa Rica has made an almost negligible contribution to the problem of global climate change. To understand this pledge, a case study spanning about 200 years situates the pledge within the country’s unique historical profile. An analysis of interview data, archival research, and secondary data reveals that the pledge is the latest instance in Costa Rica’s unusual political tradition. This political tradition dates back to the area’s experience as a Spanish colony and as a newly independent nation. Several events, including the abolition of the army, the work on green development, and being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize were all foundational in forming Costa Rica’s tradition as a place that leads by example and stands for peace and protection of nature. The carbon neutral pledge extends the political tradition that has been established through these earlier events. This case highlights the importance of understanding contemporary environmental politics through an analysis of long-term, historical data.

ACS Style

Julia Flagg. Carbon Neutral by 2021: The Past and Present of Costa Rica’s Unusual Political Tradition. Sustainability 2018, 10, 296 .

AMA Style

Julia Flagg. Carbon Neutral by 2021: The Past and Present of Costa Rica’s Unusual Political Tradition. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (2):296.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Julia Flagg. 2018. "Carbon Neutral by 2021: The Past and Present of Costa Rica’s Unusual Political Tradition." Sustainability 10, no. 2: 296.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in Climate Risk Management
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This review addresses a critical research gap concerning why climate information (CI) is used (or not) and contributes to narrowing the knowledge-action gap to improve climate adaptation. The article reviews research on factors that are endemic to the context of CI use and that can influence whether use happens. It synthesizes factors that promote or impede use at three levels of social aggregation: the micro, meso, and macro levels. The organizing principle of the micro, meso, and macro levels enables a consideration of the nested social layers that comprise the context of CI use. The micro level consists of factors at the smallest level of social aggregation, individuals who use (or do not use) CI. The meso level consists of larger social aggregates, organizations, with leadership, decision-making processes, and technical and human capacity that influence CI use. Finally, the macro level is comprised of the political environment in which individuals and organizations operate, and which may be more or less supportive of CI use. Though the review is focused on the context of water management, the implications are much broader. A conceptual model is introduced to help explain how context shapes CI use. While the interactions between producers and users and the ways in which users see CI influence whether CI use happens, use only happens if elements in the micro, meso, and macro level contexts align to support use. That is, even when the best conditions for interactions between producers and users exist, these interactions alone may be insufficient in a context that stymies CI use, for political reasons or due to organizational dynamics. By attending to context, this new conceptual model shows where and how to strategically invest in supporting CI use.

ACS Style

Julia A. Flagg; Christine J. Kirchhoff. Context matters: Context-related drivers of and barriers to climate information use. Climate Risk Management 2018, 20, 1 -10.

AMA Style

Julia A. Flagg, Christine J. Kirchhoff. Context matters: Context-related drivers of and barriers to climate information use. Climate Risk Management. 2018; 20 ():1-10.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Julia A. Flagg; Christine J. Kirchhoff. 2018. "Context matters: Context-related drivers of and barriers to climate information use." Climate Risk Management 20, no. : 1-10.