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Daniel Nyberg
Other affiliations: University of Nottingham, Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Sydney ...read more
Bio: Daniel Nyberg is an academic researcher from University of Newcastle. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Politics. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 54 publications receiving 1579 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel Nyberg include University of Nottingham & Radboud University Nijmegen.
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TL;DR: In the space of two centuries of industrial development, human civilization has changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and oce... as discussed by the authors, the challenge of climate change represents the grandest challenge facing humanity.
Abstract: Climate change represents the grandest of challenges facing humanity. In the space of two centuries of industrial development, human civilization has changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and oce...
315 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative, social constructivist method is used to examine how sustainability managers and consultants balance tensions and contradictions between their own sense of self and the various work and non-work contexts in which they find themselves.
Abstract: Climate change discourse permeates political and popular consciousness, challenging the ecological sustainability of our economic system and the business models that underpin it. Not surprisingly climate change has become an increasingly divisive and partisan political issue. While a growing literature has sought to address how business organizations are responding to climate change, the subjective perceptions of managers on this issue have received less attention. In this article we contribute to an understanding of the dynamic interaction between identities and organizations, by showing how sustainability managers and consultants balance tensions and contradictions between their own sense of self and the various work and non-work contexts in which they find themselves. Based on a qualitative, social constructivist method, we examine how these individuals develop different identities in negotiating between conflicting discourses and their sense of self. We explore how these different identities arise, in...
181 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the role of corporate sustainability specialists as intermediaries acting between broader social debates and local organizational contexts is explored, and the activities of these individuals in translating and shaping climate change emotionology within their organizations are explored.
Abstract: In responding to climate change, organizations navigate in an increasingly volatile emotional milieu in which feelings of fear, anxiety, hostility and anger shape public debate. In this article, we explore how corporations have responded to the broader ‘emotionology’ surrounding climate change. Our focus is on the role of corporate sustainability specialists as intermediaries, or ‘emotionology workers’, acting between broader social debates and local organizational contexts. Through analysis of interview and documentary data from major Australian corporations we explore both the activities of these individuals in translating and shaping climate change emotionology within their organizations, and how they manage their own emotionality in this work. We find that sustainability professionals are key agents in the design and implementation of a positive emotionology of climate change as a challenge and opportunity for corporate action. However, these activities result in tensions and contradictions for these ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the increasingly dire projections of increasing global average temperatures and escalating extreme weather events highlighed the need to take climate change as a major threat to our future.
Abstract: Climate change has rapidly emerged as a major threat to our future. Indeed the increasingly dire projections of increasing global average temperatures and escalating extreme weather events highligh...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how meaningful boundaries around actors are established through temporal delineations, or cuts, within practices, revealing the multiplicity of how employees make sense of surrounding technology.
Abstract: Organizational practice theorists have convincingly argued that the social and material, subjects and objects, are inextricable and co-emerge as the outcomes of practices or networks. My article engages with the debate in this field by explaining how, within these assumptions, discrete categories or actors are brought into being. The ethnographic field-work from call centres initially shows how customer service operatives and computers are entangled and inseparable in carrying out the practice of customer service calls. The findings then show how meaningful boundaries around actors are established through temporal delineations, or cuts, within practices. My study thus exposes the multiplicity of how employees make sense of surrounding technology. This contributes to organization studies by explaining the dynamics and fluidity that underlie the categories and actors which are taken for granted in contemporary workplaces. This also contributes to our appreciation of a labour process beyond dualisms.
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TL;DR: The work of the IPCC Working Group III 5th Assessment report as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change, which has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
Abstract: The talk with present the key results of the IPCC Working Group III 5th assessment report. Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, the report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change. The report has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
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