Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/288035 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Environmental Policy and Governance [ISSN:] 1756-9338 [Volume:] 31 [Issue:] 5 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Hoboken, NJ [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 546-559
Publisher: 
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
Abstract: 
Since 2003, droughts have been problematized within a climate change frame in Germany. Scholars describe this framing process as climatization. In our research, we conduct a qualitative content analysis of sector journal articles to investigate the climatization of drought within the three most affected policy fields in Germany: agriculture, water management, and forestry. The research objectives are to investigate how climatization processes evolve and take place within a specific policy field, and what different modes of climatization can be identified. The results are based on a framing analysis of 267 articles from journals published by political associations of farmers, water managers, and foresters at both the national and a state level, covering drought problematization relating to two major drought events in 2003 and 2011–2012. The article shows that four modes of climatization can be distinguished: scientification, securitization, technocratization, and transformation. With this empirically based heuristic, we contribute to advancing the concept of climatization by operationalizing it into a more profound, empirically grounded analytical concept that can be applied to critically investigate policymaking processes related to reducing disaster risks and achieving climate adaptation.
Subjects: 
climate change
climatization
drought
frame analysis
Germany
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Article
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