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In this paper, we examine how environmental practices related to public transit and urban green space use are influenced by perceptions of local level environmental change, neighbourhood inhabitation, and socio-demographic factors. The analysis shows that perceptions of change and neighbourhood inhabitation offer better explanations for changing local environmental practices than socio-demographic orientations. We contribute to social practice theory by drawing attention to the interplay of environmental perceptions and neighbourhood inhabitation as factors that facilitate changing environmental practices. By gaining insight into the relationship between perceptions of change and environmental practices, we thereby learn how sustainability goals, such as those embodied by SDG11, can be translated into social practices at the community level. Keywords: neighbourhood; Sustainable Development Goals; urban green space; public transit; Atlantic Canada; social practice theory Dans cet article, nous examinons comment les pratiques environnementales liées au transport en commun et à l'utilisation des espaces verts urbains sont influencées par les perceptions du changement environnemental au niveau local, l'habitation des quartiers et les facteurs sociodémographiques. L'analyse montre que les perceptions du changement et de l'habitat du quartier offrent de meilleures explications pour l'évolution des pratiques environnementales locales que les orientations sociodémographiques. Nous contribuons è la théorie de la pratique sociale en attirant l'attention sur l'interaction des perceptions environnementales et de l'habitation du quartier en tant que facteurs qui facilitent l'évolution des pratiques environnementales. En acquérant un aperçu de la relation entre les perceptions du changement et les pratiques environnementales, nous apprenons ainsi comment les objectifs de durabilité, tels que ceux incarnées par ODD (Agenda 2030 du développement durable), peuvent être traduits en pratiques sociales au niveau communautaire. Mots-clés: objectifs de développement durable, espace vert urbain, transport en commun, Canada, théorie de la pratique sociale, Introduction A problem with umbrella terms, such as 'sustainable development,' is that they are too easily connected to a broad range of social practices and often hold little substance to [...]

This article compares environmental movement engagement in energy and tourism development in Norway and Iceland by bridging the social movement societies (SMSoc) and the players and arenas perspectives. Results are based on field observation and interviews, as well as web-based textual analysis and a preliminary online survey. Results show that Norway is an institutionalized and multi-level social movement society with a mix of professionalized and grassroots local, national, and international organization. Iceland, by contrast, is a national and episodic social movement society where movement players operate at a national scale and engage in project-specific collaboration or opposition in tourism or energy development arenas. This analysis demonstrates the value of bridging the SMSoc and players and arenas perspectives for international comparative social movements research. Keywords: energy sector, environmental movements, oil extraction, players and arenas, social movement societies, tourism, Environmental movements act as opponents and allies of the energy sector and tourism sector. Despite recent price declines, the energy sector continues to pursue offshore oil exploration and extraction in [...]

The Arctic is one of the most radically altered parts of the world due to climate change, with significant social and cultural impacts as a result. Using discourse network analysis and qualitative textual analysis of articles published in the Globe and Mail and National Post during the period 2006 to 2010, we identify and analyze key frames that interpret the implications of climate change on the Arctic. We examine Canadian national news media coverage to ask: How does the Arctic enter media coverage of climate change? Is there evidence of a climate justice discourse in relation to regional disparities in the risks and harms of climate change between northern and southern Canada? Climate change in the Arctic is often framed through the lens of Canadian national interests, which downplays climate-related social impacts that are already occurring at subnational political and geographical scales. L'Arctique est une des regions du monde la plus radicalement alteree par le changement climatique, menant comme resultat des importants changements sociaux et cultureis. En utilisant l'analyse des reseaux de discours ainsi que l'analyse textuelle qualitative des articles publies dans le Globe and Mail et le National Post de 2006 a 2010, nous identifions and analysons des cadres cles qui servent a interpreter les consequences du changement climatique dans TArctique. Nous examinons la couverture des medias nationaux canadiens pour pouvoir demander : comment est-ce que l'Arctique s'insere dans la couverture mediatique du changement climatique? Est-ce qu'il y a de la preuve d'un discours de la justice climatique en relation des disparites regionales des risques et mefaits du changement climatique entre le Canada du nord et du sud? Le changement climatique dans TArctique est souvent encadre a travers le prisme des interets nationaux canadiens, ce qui minimise les impacts sociaux relies au climat qui se produisent actuellement aux echelons sous-nationaux politiques et geographiques., CLIMATE CHANGE IS ARGUABLY the dominant environmental issue of the early twenty-first century. Urry (2011) argues that the globally interconnected nature of climate change creates space for a 'cosmopolitan' ecopolitics. [...]

Gabriela Pechlaner, Corporate Crops: Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012, 289 pp. $55.00 hardcover (978-0-29272613-0). Corporate Crops examines shifts in agricultural production caused [...]

EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE PAY attention to images of oil-soaked birds in the aftermath of oil spills, researchers know that another, less perceptible, issue is the death of algae from the [...]

Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, and Pat O'Riley, eds., Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009, 292 pp. $32.95 paper (978-0-7748-1619-9), $85.00 [...]

In this paper, we examine narratives of tourism mobility circulated through print news media coverage of Newfoundland published in Canada, the UK, and the USA between 1992 and 2010. Initially articles were situated within a larger narrative of fisheries collapse, rural decline, and out-migration. In recent years, however, the discourse shifted to emphasize how non-human nature, including whales, icebergs, and national parks, serves as a tourism attractor, yielding benefits for rural communities. We draw on Latour’s work on political ecology, as well as on Urry’s work on tourism, mobility, and climate change, to analyze the eco-political implications of media accounts of tourism and the Newfoundland coastal environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For social movements, the mass media are a key means of reaching potential supporters, engaging public and political debate and reshaping cultural interpretations of relationships with the non-human environment. We examine how outdoor sport becomes the object of environmental movement mobilization and media claims-making in conflict over the Jumbo Pass ski resort, British Columbia, and Off-Highway Vehicle use in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. We use provincial and national news coverage and interviews with key movement actors to examine how activists interpret the success or failure of their media work. We find that environmentalists are generally successful at translating claims on behalf of nature to a general audience through newspaper coverage. Using an activist-centred approach to media and social movements, interviews with core activists provide insight into barriers that persist and characterize environmental movement relationships with the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]