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Två kriser. Ett rampljus : Om klimatkrisen på regeringens dagordning under coronakrisen.

Authors
  • Dahlin, Johanna
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2021
Source
DiVA - Academic Archive On-line
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Language
Swedish
License
Green
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Abstract

This study employs text analysis to explore how the Swedish government framed the climate issue during 2019 and the year of the covid pandemic, 2020. The study aims to encounter eventual changes in the framing of the climate issue using the following research question: how did the Swedish government frame the climate issue during 2019 versus 2020 during the covid-19-pandemic? Maybe the perceived acuteness of the pandemic managed to outrival the climate crisis from the government's agenda. If the climate issue vanished from their agenda, it might jeopardize former environmental successes. The results are considered relevant to studies concerning framing, agenda-setting, and crisis since controlling just one of the parallel crises might aggravate the effects of the second one. And the growing public worry regarding climate change also seems to provide relevancy to the study. The study concludes that climate policy was the Swedish government's top issue during 2019. In 2020 they described the climate issue in more severe terms than in 2019 while simultaneously prioritizing the pandemic before the climate issue. 

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