Kashiwa Sustainability Science Seminar Series 1

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東京大学新領域創成科学研究科の鎗目です。

5月16日（金）16:30-18:00に東京大学柏キャンパス・環境棟3階講義室3におきまし
て、 を開催する予定です。ス
ピーカーは、ミネソタ大学のJeffrey Broadbent先生で、テーマは、温暖化問題にお
ける政策ネットワークの形成が国による対応にどのような影響を及ぼしているのかを
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鎗目

Kashiwa Sustainability Science Seminar Series 1

Social Learning and National Response to Global Climate Change:
Hypotheses for a New Comparative Project using Policy Network Analysis

Date: Friday, May 16 at 16:30-18:00
Venue: Lecture Room 3, Environmental Building 3F, Kashiwa Campus, University
of Tokyo

Speaker:
Jeffrey Broadbent
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Institute for Global Studies
University of Minnesota
Email: broad001@umn.edu
Webpage: http://www.soc.umn.edu/faculty/broadbent.html

Abstract
This paper reviews the construction and logic of an international
comparative research project on the social factors bringing about
differences in national responses to global climate change. The project,
Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (abbreviated COMPON) will use the
policy network method to collect data on the national response processes in
a large number of different countries and regions (at present count, 17 plus
the international arena). The project will seek the causes of variation in
national response by closely examining the processes of social learning
about the problem, as it takes place through the diffusion of the dominant
scientific consensus on global climate change (as represented by the IPCC),
global norms about positive action on the problem by reducing greenhouse gas
emissions (as represented by UNFCCC agreements), and the mobilization and
success of advocacy coalitions for and against those claims and norms within
the different national political systems. The main hypothesis is that the
mobilization of an effective advocacy coalition bearing the scientific
claims and global norms is the crucial intervening variable bringing about
positive national response to the problem. The paper explains the benefits
of the policy network method for this comparative analytical task, and
presents network graphics from a previous policy network study on the same
issue in Japan. The paper concludes with the presentation of 10 hypotheses
on the social contexts that could affect the relative political success of
different national advocacy coalitions concerning how to respond to the
problem of global climate change. The paper represents an introduction not
only to the COMPON project but also to the wider field of comparative social
science and its general utility in the study of variation in national
behavior.

Organizer: YARIME Masaru

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YARIME Masaru, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Graduate Program in Sustainability Science (GPSS)
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
University of Tokyo
Environmental Building 227, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5
Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8563, JAPAN
Phone/Fax: +81-(0)4-7136-4608
E-mail: yarime@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
URL: http://www.sustainability.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/usrs/yarime/index-E.html
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鎗目　雅　Ph.D.
東京大学 大学院新領域創成科学研究科 准教授
Graduate Program in Sustainability Science (GPSS)
〒277-8563 千葉県柏市柏の葉5-1-5 環境棟227
Phone/Fax: 04-7136-4608
E-mail: yarime@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
URL: http://www.sustainability.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/usrs/yarime/
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