Journal
GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 469-476Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12240
Keywords
climate; climate change; nation; adaptation; resilience
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Pride in Australia's extreme climate has long been a part of Australia's national identity. Today, climate continues to be enrolled in a range of nationalistic projects, including the (re)development of climate science and other responses to climate change. In this paper, we outline some of the contours of the Australian national climate', claims to know it, and four idealised responses to it: bounce back, dismissal, endurance, and migration. We argue that the deeply cultural framing of climate in Australiain particular, Australians' emphasis on the climate's inherent variability and unknowability, and their own historical adaptabilityis being exploited by the federal government and hampering climate change mitigation nationally.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available