Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects
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Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021 : Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects. / Christensen, Roland Vestergaard Kragh; Bentsen, Niclas Scott.
In: Ambio, Vol. 53, 2023, p. 637–652.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021
T2 - Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects
AU - Christensen, Roland Vestergaard Kragh
AU - Bentsen, Niclas Scott
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Prompted by the increasing public focus on environmental policy and the continuous inability of States to reach environmental targets agreed upon in the context of the United Nations and the European Union, we explore the development of discourses within the Danish public agenda regarding nature management 2016–2021. This is done through a mixed-methods framework of discourse analysis and structural topic modeling based on documents from the Danish Parliament’s Environmental committee 2016–2021, estimating topic prevalence, and analyzing the discourses within each topic, resulting in a qualitative overview of 21 identified topics and their associated discourses and an overview of how the different topic proportions changed over time. A shift in the public agenda was found: a change from discussions about untouched forest focused on trade-offs between timber extraction and biodiversity, to a discussion about different understandings of animal welfare in the context of large grazers in nature national parks in Denmark.
AB - Prompted by the increasing public focus on environmental policy and the continuous inability of States to reach environmental targets agreed upon in the context of the United Nations and the European Union, we explore the development of discourses within the Danish public agenda regarding nature management 2016–2021. This is done through a mixed-methods framework of discourse analysis and structural topic modeling based on documents from the Danish Parliament’s Environmental committee 2016–2021, estimating topic prevalence, and analyzing the discourses within each topic, resulting in a qualitative overview of 21 identified topics and their associated discourses and an overview of how the different topic proportions changed over time. A shift in the public agenda was found: a change from discussions about untouched forest focused on trade-offs between timber extraction and biodiversity, to a discussion about different understandings of animal welfare in the context of large grazers in nature national parks in Denmark.
KW - Environmental discourse
KW - Environmental policy administration
KW - Machine learning
KW - Natural language processing (nlp)
KW - Text mining
U2 - 10.1007/s13280-023-01964-8
DO - 10.1007/s13280-023-01964-8
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38070061
AN - SCOPUS:85178964645
VL - 53
SP - 637
EP - 652
JO - Ambio
JF - Ambio
SN - 0044-7447
ER -
ID: 376448659