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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Note on transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Methodological considerations -- Research focus and terminology -- The book's structure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Mass media and climate change: its role, challenges and trends -- Climate change as a topic -- Journalists' views of climate change -- Does politics matter in covering climate change? -- Russian media, climate change and the Propaganda Model -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The political economy of Russian mass media: state and market -- Ownership structure -- Advertising -- Sources of information -- Flak -- Dominant ideology -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Russian climate change policy: towards 'climate pragmatism' -- Between 'de-environmentalism' and 'environmental leadership' -- The Kyoto Protocol negotiations, or Russia's 'environmental blackmail' -- A new chapter in Russian climate policy? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Russian newspapers and climate change -- Media analysis -- Discourse analysis of media coverage of climate change in Russia -- Discussion -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Mediating climate change in Russia: passing through the barriers -- The media and power, or the powerful media? -- No presentation of climate change versus misrepresentation -- 'Climate silence' and the state -- The role of personalities - will the situation get worse in Putin's third term? -- Can media coverage of climate change in Russia be changed? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Conclusion -- Note -- Appendix -- Index.

This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudina

"This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and indeed carry global import"--

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