Activity 4.2 Environmental Policy Frameworks
Activity 4.2 Environmental Policy Frameworks.
Frames:
Environmental Conflict: Resolution, 2003 | Understanding Environmental Problems | Context in Environmental Conflicts |
Identity Frames: "Who am I" "What do I want"? These types of frames involve a persons personal experiences who shape who they are today. | Identity Addresses the question "who am I" | Cultural Environment: What a person values, believes, and wants in their life. Demographic Environment: Used to classify a person based on their age, race appearance and other determining factors. |
Characterization Frames: Who are they, what has influenced them to become the way they are. | Characterization "Who are they?" "What ideas make them who they are?" | |
Conflict Management Frames: Differences between people managing conflicts | Conflict Management or Process frames "Address how individuals relate to various policy or conflict resolution alternatives" | Legal Environment Decisions on the environment are made by the government and the courts. These decisions are interpreted by the Courts specifically. |
Fact-Finding Frames: How different people process the same facts and how some people accept a fact while other might not. | Fact Frames: "Address how individuals relate to and process relevant facts in the policy dispute and address the extent to which people trust factual information" | Technology Peoples level of intelligence about using technology may vary, the more tech savvy a person is the more they can understand certain topics |
Social Control Frames: represent individual views about how decisions regarding social issues should be made. | ||
Power Frames: power that is gained in order to help one's side in a argument or conflict. | Political Frames: How the people in charge work around an argument of conflict. Economic Environment Changes based on the people who have money. Affects everyone depending on the way they spend their money. | |
Risk Frames: Explains the differences in peoples willingness to take risks | Risk Frames "Address perceived risk associated with environmental policies and options" | |
Gain/Lose Frames "Address how individuals assess the potential loss and gain characterizing key decisions in policy situations" | ||
Views of Nature Frames "how individuals perceive the effect of human interaction on the environment" | Ecological Changes the way a person views the entire ecological climate by their physical location. |
Five Point Environmental Policy Frame-Work
1. Identity: Explains an individuals person and experiences typically phrased as "who am I?"
2. Characterization: Characterization is similar to Identity but more general. Culture, race, ethnicity, age, gender and location all play a roll in characterization.
3. Conflict Management: How people understand and react too different conflicts on the individual level.
4. Fact Finding: How some people can accept a fact as truth and other will not, typical this is the case because of previous encounters with the topic.
5. Risk management: Shows the way people manage a risk-benefit measurement differently. This will often lead to different answers to the same question.
Justification
Identity is the first point in my policy framework because it is the most important. Identity is not just important to the people being discussed but it is the most important factor that determines the answers given when everyone is asked the same question. For this reason, Identity and characterization have a lot in common. Many people's characterization directly leads to their personality and identity.
Characterization is closely related to identity but the key difference is that it's more general. The characterization does not refer to the character (identity or actions) of a person but instead looks at groups the person would fit into. These groups can include a variety of topics such as gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, culture, and much more. People with different characterizations may view environmental factors through a different lens than most. The most important example is that of age because a younger person is less likely to know enough background information to truly understand how the environment works.
Conflict Management is very important as well because it shows us a very important idea about human nature. Humans are not the same, despite being the same creature differences in opinions occur constantly. People also manage conflicts and arguments differently. This can change a person's point of view quickly.
Fact Finding is not just an important part of an environmental frame-work but is a big part of life itself. Fact Finding refers to the ability to find and differentiate truth and false in many different locations. This is especially important in the modern day with the ever-increasing usage of electronics for information any person can pose any argument as truth so the ability to discern truth from false is necessary. Fact-finding also refers to the belief in truths. Some people will hear the truth and believe it and others will hear the truth and deny it because of preexisting beliefs.
Risk Management is a more automatic process that occurs in every person who doesn't just blurt out a random answer when posed a question. the degree of risk management is different in many people and the most common factors for this divide are age and experience on the topic at hand. The way people measure risk and benefit differently can lead to different decisions.
References:
Davis, C. B., & Lewicki, R. J. (2003). Environmental conflict resolution: Framing and intractability. Environmental Practice, Accessed 4/24/2023
Environmental Framing Consortium. Framing choices. Understanding Environmental Problems. (2005). Accessed 4/24/2023 http://www.intractableconflict.org/environmentalframing/framing_choices.shtml
Bryan, T. (2003). Context in environmental conflicts: Where you stand depends on where you sit. Environmental Practice, Accessed 4/24/2023
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