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Who Speaks for the Climate?
The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues – from news to entertainment – are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic mix of influences – from internal workings of mass media such as journalistic norms, to external political, economic, cultural and social factors – shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges.
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Public perception of climate change : policy and communication
Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers. So far scientists and the media have failed to successfully communicate the urgency of the climate change situation in such a way that long-term, comprehensive, and legally binding policy commitments are being made on the national and international level. This book examines the way the public processes information, how they perceive threats and other perceptual factors that have a significant effect on how and to what degree climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies are supported. Understanding public risk perception plays a vital role in communicating the challenges of global climate change. Using a diverse range of international case studies, this book explores the nature of public perceptions of climate change and identifies the perception factors which have a significant impact on the public's willingness to support global climate change policies or commit to behavioral changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve urban resiliency. The comparative study of social and cultural factors, beliefs, attitudes and trust provides an international overview of best practices regarding the design, implementation and generation of public support for climate change policies at a global level. Offering valuable insight into climate change and risk communication, the book should be of interest to students and scholars of environment studies, politics, urban planning, and media and cultural studies.
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Wie eine Wissenschaft die Erde und sich erhitzt
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse sind nicht nur Ergebnis reiner Vernunft, sondern auch Folge von binnenwissenschaftlichen Konkurrenz- und Reputationsprozessen sowie individuellen Profilierungsstrategien, durch die man in den Medien hervorstechen will. Und da diese am liebsten Negatives berichten, erfindet die Klimaforschung durch waghalsige Prognosen Katastrophen, auch, um an Forschungsgelder zu kommen. Andersdenkende werden an den Rand gedrängt - schon fast ein Krimi.
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Who speaks for the climate? : making sense of media reporting on climate change
\"The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues - from news to entertainment - are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic mix of influences - from internal workings of mass media such as journalistic norms, to external political, economic, cultural and social factors - shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
As wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels
rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people
nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on
anthropogenic climate change. What leads people to doubt or
outright denial? What leads skeptics to change their minds?
Drawing from a rich collection of interviews and surveys with
self-identified climate change skeptics (and some former ones),
sociologists Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra delve
into the underlying dynamics of climate skepticism in the United
States. In probing how ideas about science, religion, politics, and
media affect perceptions of climate change, they find a far greater
diversity of attitudes and beliefs than one might expect-including
some pro-environmental views. With this nuanced understanding of
climate change skepticism, Inside the World of Climate Change
Skeptics offers much-needed insights on improving
communication in ways that can move us toward a better future while
advancing environmental policies with widespread political
support.
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Climate change as social drama : global warming in the public sphere
\"Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama. This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes perception of the problem. Drs. Smith and Howe use the perspective of cultural sociology and Aristotle's timeless theories about narrative and rhetoric to explore this meaningful and visible surface of climate change in the public sphere. Whereas most research wants to explain barriers to awareness, here we switch the agenda to look at the moments when global warming actually gets attention. Chapters consider struggles over apocalyptic scenarios, explain the success of Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth, unpack the deeper social meanings of the climate conference and 'Climategate,' critique failed advertising campaigns and climate art, and question the much touted transformative potential of natural disasters such as Superstorm Sandy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Living in Denial
Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In Living in Denial, sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question, drawing on interviews and ethnographic data from her study of \"Bygdaby,\" the fictional name of an actual rural community in western Norway, during the unusually warm winter of 2000-2001.In 2000-2001 the first snowfall came to Bygdaby two months later than usual; ice fishing was impossible; and the ski industry had to invest substantially in artificial snow-making. Stories in local and national newspapers linked the warm winter explicitly to global warming. Yet residents did not write letters to the editor, pressure politicians, or cut down on use of fossil fuels. Norgaard attributes this lack of response to the phenomenon of socially organized denial, by which information about climate science is known in the abstract but disconnected from political, social, and private life, and sees this as emblematic of how citizens of industrialized countries are responding to global warming.Norgaard finds that for the highly educated and politically savvy residents of Bygdaby, global warming was both common knowledge and unimaginable. Norgaard traces this denial through multiple levels, from emotions to cultural norms to political economy. Her report from Bygdaby, supplemented by comparisons throughout the book to the United States, tells a larger story behind our paralysis in the face of today's alarming predictions from climate scientists.The hardcover edition does not include a dust jacket.
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