Large-Scale Text Analysis of Local Government Climate Policy in Australia: Policy Framing Patterns

ACL 2024 Workshop ClimateNLP Submission18 Authors

Keywords: policy analysis; topic modelling; policy framing patterns

TL;DR: Our research contributes a novel analytical perspective focusing on the key policy frames in local government climate policy in Australia from 2016 to 2022

Abstract: Seven years on from the first declaration of climate emergency, we will undertake a large-scale text analysis of local government climate strategy documents of 196 climate policies over 140 local governments in Australia from 2016 to the end of 2022. We utilise topic modelling to depict the commonalities and divergences of key topics/policy frames in the climate policies of local government in Australia.

Archival Submission: arxival

Submission Number: 18