Suchergebnisse

Introduction: the challenges of communicating about climate change in the modern era / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf and Burton St. John III -- Part 1. Communicating with the public -- Asking questions for adaptation: using public and stakeholder surveys as a tool within coastal climate change policy processes / Karen L. Akerlof, Kristin Timm, Syma A. Ebbin, Jill M. Gambill, Phyllis M. Grifman, Tancred Miller, and Susanne Moser -- Engaging residents in policy and planning for sea level rise: application of the action-oriented stakeholder engagement for a resilient tomorrow (ASERT) framework / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, J. Gail Nicula, Daniel P. Richards, Ogechukwu Agim, Michelle Covi, and Khairul A. Anuar -- Communicating within immersion and presence: the use of 360-degree-video to make climate change touchable / Andreas Hebbel-Seeger, Christian Rudeloff, Riccardo Wagner, and Sebastian Pranz -- Part 2. Communicating for stakeholder engagement -- Communicating and co-producing information with stakeholders: examples of participatory mapping approaches related to sea level rise risks and impacts / Pragati Rawat, Khairul A. Anuar, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Jon Derek Loftis, and Ren-Neasha Blake -- Social media and climate change dialogue: a review of the research and guidance for science communicators / Brooke Fisher Liu and Jiyoun Kim -- Key elements of user preferences for flood alerts and implications for the design and development of flood alert or warning systems / Donta Council, Tihara Richardson, and Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf -- Part 3. Organizational, institutional, risk and disaster communication -- The standing rock water protests against Dakota Access Pipeline: addressing environmental degradation through indigenous political ecology as the "trickster science" / Danielle Quichocho and Burton St. John III -- Risk communication in the tourism industry / Lindsay E. Usher and Ashley Schroeder -- Risk management and biases in how drivers respond to nuisance flooding / Saige Hill, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Burton St. John III, Pragati Rawat, and Carol Considine -- Rethinking disaster communication ecology: exploring context in isolated communities in the Philippines / Dennis John F. Sumaylo and Marianne D. Sison -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Toward accessible messaging and effective climate change communication / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf and Burton St. John III

For over 30 years the science on climate change has been clear: it is happening, we humans caused it, and it puts all our futures at risk. Global warming can still be reversed, or at least the worst prevented, if we act in time. However, despite valiant efforts by scientists, activists and science reporters, little meaningful change has occurred. This is largely the result of well-funded professional strategic communication efforts by vested interests. They have been highly successful in achieving their central goal: protecting the profitable status quo by creating gridlock to slow down meaningful action on climate change.Strategic Climate Science Communications: Effective Approaches to Fighting Climate Denial analyzes some of the communication strategies employed by deniers and the psychological mechanisms behind how they work. Several experts offer specific counter-strategies to change the conversation and foster meaningful societal change on global warming. The book helps environmental journalists to build up resistance against being manipulated by highly effective public relations techniques often successfully used against them. It can also help scientists and activists to become more effective communicators. An effective strategy is best countered by even better strategy.--

"Climate change and climate denial have remained largely off the radar in literacy and social studies education. This book addresses this gap with the design of the Climate Denial Inquiry Model (CDIM) and clear examples of how educators and students can confront two forms of climate denial: science denial and action denial. The CDIM highlights how critical literacies specifically designed for climate denial texts can be used alongside eco-civic practices of deliberation, reflexivity, and counter-narration to help students discern corporate, financial, and politically motivated roots of climate denial and to better understand efforts to misinform the American public, sow doubt and distrust of basic scientific knowledge, and erode support for evidence-based policymaking and collective civic action. With an emphasis on inquiry-based teaching and learning, the book also charts a path from destructive stories-we-live-by that are steeped in climate denial (humans are separate from nature, the primary goal of society is economic growth without limits, nature is a resource to be used and exploited) to ecojustice stories-To-live by that invite teachers and students to consider more just and sustainable futures"--

"Communicating the Climate Crisis lays out fresh directions and strategies for creating a new story of hope through action-not as isolated and "guilty" consumers, but as social actors who use emotional resilience, climate conversations, justice, and faith to break the current social inertia and create a desired future"--

Introduction -- Climate scepticism in the UK -- Climate scepticism in Germany -- Climate scepticism and Christian conservatism in the United States -- Climato-scepticisme in France -- Science and technology studies, ecocriticism and climate change -- What we've learned from climate sceptics

"Despite enormous scientific and media attention focused on the topic, real progress against climate change has been frustratingly slow. Why? Peter Friederici claims that this failure is largely due to narrative--specifically, to the existence of numerous compelling narratives of denial that are closely tied to our political, economic, religious, and psychological belief systems. By analyzing how those narratives lead us astray from a full recognition of both the problem and potential solutions, he argues that only by coming up with new story frameworks can we hope to effectively address climate breakdown. Specifically, he calls for finding stories that utilize comic perspectives, radical hope, and much broader democratic participation than we have generally found in mainstream accounts of climate change"--