När den svenska klimatdebatten intensifierades under 2000-talets första decennium tilldelades allmänheten en särskild roll. I den mediala och politiska debatten verkade lösningen på miljöproblemen intimt förknippad med individers livsstilar. I den här avhandlingen betraktas det synsättet som del av en pågående individualisering av miljöansvar. Med en poststrukturalistisk feministisk utgångspunkt hanteras det individualiserade miljöansvaret som en specifik diskurs. Diskursen beskriver individer som de centrala aktörerna som ska motverka miljöproblemen. Hur individer förhåller sig till rimligheten i en sådan ansvarsfördelning eller förstår innebörden av ett sådant ansvar är emellertid oklart. Syftet med avhandlingen är att utforska hur individer begripliggör och förhandlar diskursen om individuellt miljöansvar i gruppsamtal. För att förstå hur individer kan positionera sig i relation till diskursen analyseras tolv fokusgruppsamtal med personer som befinner sig i olika livssituationer och har olika erfarenheter av miljöfrågor och resande. Samtalsdeltagarnas förhandlingar av diskursens innebörd och relevans analyseras. Avhandlingen undersöker vilka andra diskurser som stödjer, konkurrerar med eller utgör motdiskurser till den individualiserade miljödiskursen. Därmed framgår hur individer kan införliva eller göra motstånd mot miljödiskursens verklighetsbeskrivning. I avhandlingen undersöks även vilka subjektspositioner som görs problematiska respektive oproblematiska i relation till ett individualiserat miljöansvar. Det bidrar med insikt om hur diskurser knutna till genus och klass kan positionera individer som i olika grad eller på olika sätt ansvariga för sin miljöpåverkan. Analysen visar hur individuellt miljöansvar förknippas med resursstarka och oberoende individer, individer som kan tänka sig att agera utan stöd från vare sig omgivningen eller stödjande samhällsstrukturer. Samtalsdeltagare i studien beskriver det individualiserade miljöansvaret som alltifrån moraliskt viktigt och positivt till orimligt och orealistiskt. Konkurrens mellan individer följer i diskursens spår. Både personer som tar på sig stort ansvar och de som inte förmår eller vill leva upp till idealet om att förändra sin livsstil pekas ut som problematiska. Samtidigt hamnar andra potentiella ansvarstagare och politiska arenor ofta i skymundan. Därtill riktar vissa samtalsdeltagare misstro mot samhällets förmåga att överhuvudtaget hantera miljöproblem, vilket tolkas som en aspekt av det individualiserade miljöansvarets dominans. / Over the last decade, the behaviors and lifestyles of the Swedish public have been depicted as having important environmental effects by both politicians and the media in Sweden. In this thesis, this is regarded as part of an ongoing tendency to individualize environmental responsibilities. Using a feminist poststructuralist point of departure, this individualized environmental responsibility is understood as a particular discourse that frames individuals as essential actors in handling environmental problems. How individuals position themselves in relation to the reasonableness and meaning of these responsibilities, however, is still an open question. The aim is to explore how individuals make scnse of and negotiate the discourse of individual environmental responsibility in group discussions. Twelve focus group conversations involving people in various life situations and with various expericnces of environmental issues and travelling are analyzed. The analysis investigates how the focus group participants position themselves in relation to the discoursc and, thus, negotiate its meaning and relevance. The analysis seeks to understand what other discourses support, compete with, or challenge the discourse of individual environmental responsibility in order to illuminate how individuals can incorporate or resist this particular discursive description of the world. The thesis also investigates what subject positions are made troubled or untroubled by the focus group participants, which reveals how gender and dass discourses position individuals as in various ways or to various degrees responsible for their individual impact on the environment. The analysis suggests that the discourse of individual environmental responsibility privileges independent, self-governing individuals, that is, people who assume responsibility without demanding either societal or social support. Some focus group participants depict individual environmental responsibility as morally significant and beneficial, while others depict it as unrealistic and unacceptable. The discourse seems to engender competition between individuals. Both people acting as highly environmentally responsible and people acting as unable or unwilling to take environmental responsibility are framed as troubled individuals in the conversations. Concurrently, other potential environmentally responsible actors and political scenes are often neglected. The discourse of individual environmental responsibility dominates; for some focus group participants, this discourse leads toa lack of faith in societal ability to handle environmental problems.

Este estudo antropológico trata de questões relacionadas ao enfrentamento do desastre que atingiu a cidade de Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brasil, em novembro de 2008, resultado de um anticiclone que gerou enormes danos físicos, materiais e a ruptura das rotinas e dos laços afetivos e de parentesco de seus habitantes. A análise se pauta nas narrativas da experiência de vitimização, vulnerabilidade e de sofrimento conformadas na memória dos habitantes atingidos que configuram diferentes formas de interpretação, superação do desastre e reorganização da vida familiar e comunitária. Tais narrativas e práticas revelam relações com distintas dimensões éticas engendradas nos discursos e ações produzidas pelas entidades políticas e científicas, que abordam a relação entre indivíduo, sociedade e ambiente. O exame das políticas de Defesa Civil e de prevenção de desastres revelam o encontro entre as noções, práticas e valores da população com a racionalidade científica, burocrática e tecnicista do Estado e outros órgãos, encontro este que delineia diversas formas de resistência, na invisibilidade do cotidiano, em face das situações de vulnerabilidade. / This anthropological study is about issues related to the confrontation with the disaster that struck the city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in November 2008, a violent tempest that generated enormous physical and material damage and, also, the disruption of routines, of family and emotional attachments of its inhabitants. The analysis is based on the narration of the experience of victimization, vulnerability and suffering on the memory of the inhabitants, that represent different ways of interpreting and overcoming the disaster and reorganization of family and community life. Such narratives and practical matters are related to the various ethical dimensions revealed by their speech and by the actions taken by political and scientific institutions that discuss the relation of individuals, society and the environment. The examination of the politics of Civil defense and disaster prevention reveals the reunion of concepts, practice and values of the population is ruled by scientific rationality, bureaucracy and technical thinking of the Estate and institutions. That reunion outstrips several ways of resistance in the invisibility of everyday life when in a place of great vulnerability.

This master thesis deals with the influence of installation of ecological taxes upon public budgets. The aim is to review, whether collecting of ecological taxes caused reduction of consumption of the taxed fuel and energy. The comparative method is used here to compare the budget and the real payment of the ecological taxes in 2008 and 2009 in the Czech republic. The well-arranged tables and graphs show the comparison of the consumption of the fuel and energy since 2005 to 2009. The result of the research shows, that the collecting of the ecological taxes did not reach the expected amount, so the planned budget was not filled up. The consumption of the fuel and the energy in 2008 and 2009 decreased as expected, but it is impossible to appoint safely, whether the decrease was caused by the implementation of the ecological taxes to the czech legislature.

NOTTINGHAM, Patrícia Carvalho. Tempos verdes em Fortaleza: experiência do movimento ambientalista (1976-1992). 2006. 203 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de História, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social, Fortaleza-CE, 2006. / Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-28T14:21:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Dis_PCNottingham.pdf: 7697208 bytes, checksum: 2517b6f1912ce0d7ee3054e8ac5611a2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-04T16:44:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Dis_PCNottingham.pdf: 7697208 bytes, checksum: 2517b6f1912ce0d7ee3054e8ac5611a2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-04T16:44:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Dis_PCNottingham.pdf: 7697208 bytes, checksum: 2517b6f1912ce0d7ee3054e8ac5611a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / The present study on the environmentalist movement in Fortaleza analyzes its organization, the insertion of environmental issues in the political debates and in the social movements in the contexts of the 70’s and 80’s. Through the analysis of oral narratives, pamphlets, manifestos and newspaper articles, it was possible to understand the historical process of this movement, its contradictions, limits, potentialities and social practices. One of the most significant moments for the environmentalists was the victorious struggle for the Cocó Park, which represented the legitimacy of this movement, becoming a reference for the subsequent fights in the ecology politicization process, in a new context where SOCEMA yields place to NGOs. / O presente estudo sobre o movimento ambientalista em Fortaleza faz uma análise de sua organização, da inserção das questões ambientais nos debates políticos e nos movimentos sociais no contexto das décadas de 1970 e 1980. Pela da análise das falas, dos panfletos, manifestos e artigos de jornais, foi possível compreender o processo histórico do movimento, suas contradições, seus limites, potencialidades e práticas sociais. Um dos momentos significativos para os ambientalistas foi a luta vitoriosa pelo Parque do Cocó que configurou na legitimação deste movimento, tornando-se referência para as lutas posteriores num processo de politização da ecologia, num novo contexto onde a SOCEMA sede lugar para as ONGs.

Este estudo antropológico trata de questões relacionadas ao enfrentamento do desastre que atingiu a cidade de Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brasil, em novembro de 2008, resultado de um anticiclone que gerou enormes danos físicos, materiais e a ruptura das rotinas e dos laços afetivos e de parentesco de seus habitantes. A análise se pauta nas narrativas da experiência de vitimização, vulnerabilidade e de sofrimento conformadas na memória dos habitantes atingidos que configuram diferentes formas de interpretação, superação do desastre e reorganização da vida familiar e comunitária. Tais narrativas e práticas revelam relações com distintas dimensões éticas engendradas nos discursos e ações produzidas pelas entidades políticas e científicas, que abordam a relação entre indivíduo, sociedade e ambiente. O exame das políticas de Defesa Civil e de prevenção de desastres revelam o encontro entre as noções, práticas e valores da população com a racionalidade científica, burocrática e tecnicista do Estado e outros órgãos, encontro este que delineia diversas formas de resistência, na invisibilidade do cotidiano, em face das situações de vulnerabilidade. / This anthropological study is about issues related to the confrontation with the disaster that struck the city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in November 2008, a violent tempest that generated enormous physical and material damage and, also, the disruption of routines, of family and emotional attachments of its inhabitants. The analysis is based on the narration of the experience of victimization, vulnerability and suffering on the memory of the inhabitants, that represent different ways of interpreting and overcoming the disaster and reorganization of family and community life. Such narratives and practical matters are related to the various ethical dimensions revealed by their speech and by the actions taken by political and scientific institutions that discuss the relation of individuals, society and the environment. The examination of the politics of Civil defense and disaster prevention reveals the reunion of concepts, practice and values of the population is ruled by scientific rationality, bureaucracy and technical thinking of the Estate and institutions. That reunion outstrips several ways of resistance in the invisibility of everyday life when in a place of great vulnerability.

Este estudo antropológico trata de questões relacionadas ao enfrentamento do desastre que atingiu a cidade de Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brasil, em novembro de 2008, resultado de um anticiclone que gerou enormes danos físicos, materiais e a ruptura das rotinas e dos laços afetivos e de parentesco de seus habitantes. A análise se pauta nas narrativas da experiência de vitimização, vulnerabilidade e de sofrimento conformadas na memória dos habitantes atingidos que configuram diferentes formas de interpretação, superação do desastre e reorganização da vida familiar e comunitária. Tais narrativas e práticas revelam relações com distintas dimensões éticas engendradas nos discursos e ações produzidas pelas entidades políticas e científicas, que abordam a relação entre indivíduo, sociedade e ambiente. O exame das políticas de Defesa Civil e de prevenção de desastres revelam o encontro entre as noções, práticas e valores da população com a racionalidade científica, burocrática e tecnicista do Estado e outros órgãos, encontro este que delineia diversas formas de resistência, na invisibilidade do cotidiano, em face das situações de vulnerabilidade. / This anthropological study is about issues related to the confrontation with the disaster that struck the city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in November 2008, a violent tempest that generated enormous physical and material damage and, also, the disruption of routines, of family and emotional attachments of its inhabitants. The analysis is based on the narration of the experience of victimization, vulnerability and suffering on the memory of the inhabitants, that represent different ways of interpreting and overcoming the disaster and reorganization of family and community life. Such narratives and practical matters are related to the various ethical dimensions revealed by their speech and by the actions taken by political and scientific institutions that discuss the relation of individuals, society and the environment. The examination of the politics of Civil defense and disaster prevention reveals the reunion of concepts, practice and values of the population is ruled by scientific rationality, bureaucracy and technical thinking of the Estate and institutions. That reunion outstrips several ways of resistance in the invisibility of everyday life when in a place of great vulnerability.

Esta pesquisa visa contribuir para a produção de conhecimentos que subsidiem atividades de educação ambiental através da descrição de um estudo de caso realizado junto aos alunos moradores da Área de Proteção Ambiental de Sousas e Joaquim Egídio, localizada em Campinas – São Paulo. O grupo formado por alunos da 7ª série da Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental “Ângela Cury Zackia” constituiu o público-alvo da pesquisa. Seu foco está na análise da compreensão da questão ambiental para os alunos moradores. Foi utilizado como referencial metodológico o estudo de caso, a pesquisa qualitativa e pesquisa-ação, com auxílio de instrumentos como: entrevistas semi-estruturadas, questionários, análise documental e realização de oficinas. Busca-se refletir sobre o significado de meio ambiente e natureza e caracterizar do grupo frente ao envolvimento, participação e compromisso nos problemas relacionados ao meio ambiente. / This research aims at to contribute for the production of knowledge that subsidize activities of ambient education through the description of a study of case carried through together to the living pupils of the Area of Environment Protection of Sousas and Joaquin Egídio, located in Campinas – S.P. The group formed for pupils of 7ª series of the Municipal School of Basic Education “Ângela Cury Zackia” it constituted the public-target of the research. Its focus is in the analysis of the understanding of the ambient question for the living pupils. It was used as referencial metodológico the case study, the qualitative research and research-action, with aid of instruments as: half-structuralized interviews, questionnaires, documentary analysis and accomplishment of workshops. One searchs to reflect on the meaning of environment and nature for this group of students. The characterization of the group front to the envolvement, participation and commitment in the problems related to the environment.

<p>Promoting sustainable consumption is critical to meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Food systems can cause considerable environmental impacts, which are exacerbated by the rapidly increasing global population and urbanization. Policy makers are seeking strategies to promote sustainable food consumption to reduce food-related environmental footprints. However, literature assessing environmental implications of food consumption has several gaps: first, studies using national average diets or one-day dietary recall data are likely to neglect the heterogeneous food purchasing patterns in different households and over longer time spans; second, few studies have considered reducing the overall food-emissions-water-land (FEWL) impacts and the FEWL impact reduction potentials have not been fully examined due to lack of considering changing consumption patterns of food items within food groups. Additionally, knowing the environmental impacts of food consumption is only the first step towards sustainable consumption. Providing the information to consumers to guide their decision making is also critical. Ecolabels are increasingly used to inform consumers about the environmental performance of products. However, the effectiveness of ecolabels is unclear because methods used in existing studies may not show consumers’ naturalistic behavior.</p> <p> </p> <p>This dissertation aims to address these research gaps to provide better understanding of the reduction potentials and trade-offs of food environmental impacts, and the effectiveness of ecolabels to facilitate consumer decision making for sustainable consumption. To achieve the objective, a variety of models and methods are used: (1) detailed food purchasing records from 57,578 U.S. households were analyzed and a process-based life cycle assessment (LCA) model is developed to evaluate the food carbon emissions and identify reduction pathways; (2) the LCA model was then expanded to also quantify food-related blue water footprint and land footprint. The FEWL impact reduction potentials were evaluated in two dietary change scenarios: (a) only adjusting intake in each food group to the recommended amount and (b) in addition to adjusting food group intake amount, changing consumption patterns to shift towards the food item that minimizes the overall FEWL impacts within each group). A food-item level analysis was also conducted to examine the FEWL impact trade-offs associated with food item substitutions; and (3) survey and attention data were collected from 156 participants in a naturalistic shopping environment using eye tracking glasses to evaluate the effectiveness of ecolabels on informing consumers’ product selection for sustainable consumption. </p> <p> </p> <p>By assessing the environmental impacts of food consumption and the effectiveness of ecolabels, this dissertation proposed pathways to reduce food-related environmental impacts (i.e., through identifying target households and food groups for impact reduction) and strategies to improve ecolabels’ effectiveness in consumers’ decision making. The results can provide insights to policy makers to promote sustainable consumption. </p>

This paper analyses the environmental policy documents of Vänsterpartiet (Left Party) and Socialdemokraterna (Social Democratic Party) based on the theories of ecological modernization (EMT) and critical environmental sociology (CES), constructed as ideal types. The aim is to explain ideational differences and similarities based on the ideal types of each theory and how well the parties can be linked to the ideal types of EMT and CES, their similarities and differences. The results show that there is a clear ideational distinction between the Left Party and the Social Democratic Party and that their views on solutions to climate change and subsequent environmental issues, based on ecological modernization theory and critical environmental sociology, differ despite other ideational similarities. The Left Party adheres more to the ideal type of CES and the Social Democratic Party adheres more to the ideal type of EMT.

Svenskarna är ibland de som konsumenterna konsumerar mest nötkött i världen, de äter 26 kg per person och år. Matkonsumtionen generellt står för en tredjedel av de svenska hushållens utsläpp av växthusgaser, och g. Globalt sett står djuruppfödningen till köttproduktion för 14,5 % av utsläppen av alla växthusgaser. Kor är idisslare och deras matsmältning avger metangas vilket bidrar mer till växthuseffekten jämfört med uppfödning av andra djur som inte idisslar. För att minska de utsläppen kan antalet nötboskap reduceras. SamtidigtMen, å andra sidan bidrar betande djur till öppna landskap och biologisk mångfald,. och Ddet finns marker som inte lämpar sig för odling ochdär betesdjur kan vara det enda sättet att få avkastning, och hur ., men bBlir dock mängden djur på en bestämd areal för stor tar naturen istället skada. Kor är idisslare och deras matsmältning avger metangas som vilket bidrar till ökad växthuseffekt jämfört med uppfödning av andra djur som inte idisslar. Hur stor miljöpåverkanmycket djuruppfödningen påverkar miljön har varierar emellertid beroende medpå vilka metoder som används i jordbruket. Djurfoder har bland annat identifierats som den största utsläppskällan i produktionssystemet. För att minska miljöpåverkan från jordbruket generellt  och nötköttskonsumtionen speciellt kan ny teknik användas som effektiviserar produktionen. Den framtida utmaningen kommer också att vara handla om att säkra mattillgången för hela världens befolkning. Flertalet studier konkluderar med att en förändring av våra matvanor är ett nödvändigt komplement till andra klimatåtgärder, ändå vidtas inga åtgärder för att minska nötköttskonsumtionen i Sverige.. I den här studien har olika intressenter fått svara på hur de ser på nötköttskonsumtionens påverkan på miljön. De intervjuade var ett urval av politiker och intresseorganisationer. De fick också svara på frågor om hur viktigt de anser det vara att minska konsumtion av nötkött, hur man kan gå till väga för att uppnå det, när och hur stor minskningen bör vara samt hur lång tid det kan ta för att uppnå en förändring.   De tillfrågade erkännervar väl införstådda med att djuruppfödningen påverkar klimatet men lyfte också även andra miljöaspekter lyfts fram. Resultatet visar att viljan var stor att minska klimatpåverkan med hjälp av minskad nötköttskonsumtion. De tillfrågade erkänner att djuruppfödningen påverkar klimatet men även andra miljöaspekter lyfts fram. Många av respondenterna uttalade en oro för att den svenska produktionen skulle drabbas om politiska styrmedel infördes. Gällande storleken på reduktionen av nötköttskonsumtionen rådde relativt stor enighet kring en siffra mellanpå 20 tilloch 50 %. När det kom till hur detta kan uppnås gick dock åsikterna isär. Samtliga respondenter förespråkade informativa styrmedel och fortsatt forskning, några kunde tänka sig ekonomiska styrmedel men ingen var villig att införa administrativa styrmedel. Det står klart att konsumtionen av nötkött har en stor miljöpåverkan och att vi måste minska den för att nå klimatmålen. Med information och fortsatt forskning kan normer brytas och konsumtionsmönster förändras i grunden. Om det behövs kraftigare åtgärder kan ekonomiska styrmedel vara nästa steg. Det finns utrymme för en fortsatt nationell produktion av nötkött samtidigt som konsumtionen minskar. Eftersom alla respondenterna var överens om att en minskning av nötköttskonsumtionen är viktig kan konkreta, nationella mål sättas upp och åtgärder vidtas omgående.Till trots för kunskapen om att nötköttsproduktion är en av de största bidragande faktorerna till utsläpp av växthusgaser globalt och att konsumtion måste minska för att vi skall kunna uppfylla klimatmålen. De flesta av respondenterna var intresserade av att jobba för en minskning av nötköttskonsumtion men visade mindre vilja till mer omfattande åtgärder, vilket kan bero på en oro för att förlora medlemmar eller väljare. Miljö och konsumtion är politiska frågor och risken kan vara större att politikerna mister väljare i generationen miliennials eftersom en förändring mot minskad köttkonsumtion generellt redan är igång bland dem. / About one third out of the greenhouse gases produced by the Swedish households come from food consumption, with Sswedes being among the worlds’ larbiggest consumers of beef; consuming roughly, 26 kg per person and year. Beef consumption accounts for approximately 7 % of the Swedish greenhouse gas emissions which is not negligible. While the consumption of beef has been identified in many previous studies to impact the environment negatively,G grazing animals can contribute to a healthy environment by keeping landscapes open, thereby supporting biodiversity. , and there is land more suitable for grazing than for growing crops. However, if the number of animals is too large it will lead to environmental damage., and ruminants contribute to greenhouse gas emissions by producing methane whilst digesting. The magnitude of the environmental impact from agriculture depends on what methods are used, but the cultivation of feed has been identified as the greatest cause of environmental damage in the production system of livestock. New technology could be used to reduce the environmental impacts from agriculture and the consumption of beef. Food security will be a challenge for the future, with the rising global population and changing conditions for agricultural practices in many areas. Several studies have concluded that adapting our diets is necessary to complement other climate mitigation measures. Yet, not much is done to reduce the beef consumption. Thise study was performed by interviewing different stakeholders regarding their views on beef consumption, where the interviewees respondents were a sample of politicians and relevant organization representatives. They were asked about the importance of reducing beef consumption in order to reach environmental targets, and methods ofor doing so; how great the reduction ought to be, as well as within what time perspective we ought to see changes in consumption. The results showed a willingness to change and reduce the beef consumption due to its environmental impacts. The climate effects from livestock were recognised and other environmental aspects were also highlighted. Most respondents were able to quantifypresent a number of how much they believed meat consumption ought to be reduced, with suggestions ranging from 20 to 50 per cent. Furthermore, all the respondents agreed upon using informational policy instruments and continued scientific work to achieve the suggested aims. A few were additionally in favour of implementing economic policy instruments, but none advised administrative policy instruments as an appropriate measure. It is clearDespite the knowledge that the beef consumption has an extensively negative environmental impact and needs to be addressed, and though most respondents expressed willingness to work for a reduction of the consumption they were still hesitant to introduce any vast measures. This could be due to concerns of losing members or votes. Environmental as well as consuming issues are political matters and the risk of losing votes might be greater if not acting as the young adults, millennials, have already initiated a change toward a more plant based diet.