When climate change is missing : Media discourse on coal mining in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00107346" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00107346 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421519301557" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421519301557</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.065" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.065</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
When climate change is missing : Media discourse on coal mining in the Czech Republic
Original language description
One of the EU's main decarbonization goals is a reduction in the energy use of coal. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that public support for decarbonization can be gained automatically by pointing out threats from climate change, particularly in light of the role coal plays in the local and national economy and in energy security. In this article we search for factors affecting public support for a coal phase-out in media content. According to the theory of agenda setting, the media establishes problems calling for solutions and influences public perceptions of the (un)importance of those problems. We illustrate this case on the example of the Czech Republic. The paper demonstrates that Czech media has cultivated a discursive environment in which coal mining is separated from coal combustion, neglecting the inevitable interconnection of these two processes; coal consumption is not characterized as an environmental problem; and the economic problems of private companies more easily become public problems, making future coal phase-out policies harder to implement.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ17-08554Y" target="_blank" >GJ17-08554Y: Exploring and explaining participation in local opposition: case of brown coal mining in Horní Jiřetín</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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