Media and the politics of arctic climate change : when the ice breaks / edited by Miyase Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Annika E. Nilsson, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden, and Nina Wormbs, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christensen, Miyase, editor.

Nilsson, Annika, editor.

Wormbs, Nina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Arctic regions.

Environmental policy.

Global warming--Arctic regions.

Global warming.

Mass media and the environment--Arctic regions.

Mass media and the environment.

Geopolitics--Arctic regions.

Geopolitics.

Climatology.

Arctic regions--Climate.

Arctic regions.

Arctic Regions.

Physical Description:

xiv, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"The Arctic sea-ice reached record lows in 2007, and again in 2012. In the international news media, these moments were reflected via striking images of polar bears, crumbling ice chunks and the use of more alarmist metaphors about global climate change. Through these narratives, and despite the periodic disappearance of climate change from media reports due to issue fatigue, a sharper narrative of climate change has entered public discourse: a new global reality where the future is no longer a given. Going beyond media studies as well as descriptive or highly scientific accounts of the impacts of climate change in the Arctic, this book explores how both historical and contemporary mediations, scientific narratives and satellite technology simultaneously capture and reconstruct this new reality of the Anthropocene, where human activities shape the planet. By highlighting the linkages between science, media, environmental change and geopolitics, the informed contributors to the volume invite the reader to reflect on what is local and what is global in today's connected mediatized world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Globalization, Climate Change and the Media: An Introduction / Miyase Christensen Christensen, Miyase, Annika E. Nilsson Nilsson, Annika E., Nina Wormbs Wormbs, Nina 1

2 Arctic Climate Change and the Media: The News Story That Was / Miyase Christensen Christensen, Miyase 26

3 Eyes on the Ice: Satellite Remote Sensing and the Narratives of Visualized Data / Nina Wormbs Wormbs, Nina 52

4 An Ice-Free Arctic Sea? The Science of Sea Ice and Its Interests / Sverker Sörlin Sörlin, Sverker, Julia Lajus Lajus, Julia 70

5 Signals from a Noisy Region / Annika E. Nilsson Nilsson, Annika E., Ralf Döscher Döscher, Ralf 93

6 A Question of Scale: Local versus Pan-Arctic Impacts from Sea-Ice Change / Henry P. Huntington Huntington, Henry P. 114

7 Under the Ice: Exploring the Arctic's Energy Resources, 1898-1985 / Dag Avango Avango, Dag, Per Högselius Högselius, Per 128

8 Changing Arctic - Changing World / Miyase Christensen Christensen, Miyase, Annika E. Nilsson Nilsson, Annika E., Nina Wormbs Wormbs, Nina 157.

ISBN:

9781137266224

1137266228

OCLC:

848162764

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