Paving the way or crowding out? The impact of the rise of climate change on environmental issue agendas

Jessica Boscarino ()

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015, vol. 5, issue 2, 99-110

Abstract: Climate change has emerged as a salient issue within the USA. In response, many environmental organizations have pushed climate change to the top of their agendas. As a consequence, critics have charged that environmentalists have decreased attention to—or abandoned altogether—traditional issues such as biodiversity. This research provides empirical data to evaluate such claims. I assess the degree to which climate change has come to dominate US environmental group agendas, using data from organizational websites, financial statements, and interviews. I find that climate change has moved to the top of group agendas, emerging as a key priority and commanding a significant percentage of organizational funding. However, rather than being associated with the neglect of other issues, analysis shows that groups tend to work on a greater number of issues after they prioritize climate change. Moreover, the nature of environmental campaigns has evolved as attention to climate change has increased. Copyright AESS 2015

Keywords: Climate change; Interest groups; Agenda setting; Environmental politics; Public policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s13412-015-0240-1

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