Culture, politics and climate change : how information shapes our common future / edited by Deserai A. Crow and Maxwell T. Boykoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Deserai, 1975- editor.

Boykoff, Maxwell T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Public opinion.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Mass media and the environment.

Environmental ethics.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

xviii, 234 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This collection draws from multiple perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. It is divided into four sections - Culture and Climate Change Communication. Media as Actors and Contributors to Climate Politics and Policy, Climate Politics and Policy, and Emerging Research in Climate Politics and Policy-each followed by a commentary from a key expert in the field. The book includes analysis of the challenges and opportunities for establishing successful communication on climate change among scientists, the media, policy-makers, and activists. With an emphasis on the interrelation between social, cultural, and political aspects of climate change communication, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of climate change, environment studies, environmental policy, communication, cultural studies, media studies, politics, sociology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Beyond 'gloom and doom' or 'hope and possibility'; making room for both sacrifice and reward in our visions of a low-carbon future / Cheryl Hall

Polar bears, Inuit names, and climate citizenship: understanding climate change visual culture through green consumerism, environmental philanthropy, and ingeneity / Doreen E. Martinez

Commentary on Part I: beyond climate, beyond change / Mike Hulme

#Climatenews: summit journalism and digital networks / Matthew Tegelberg, Dmitry Yagodin and Adrienne Russell

TV weathercasters and climate education in the shadow of climate change conflict / Vanessa Schweizer, Sara Cobb, William Schrodeder, Grace Chau and Edward Maibach

Re-examining the media-policy link: climate change and government exiles in Peru / BrunoTakahashi and Mark S. Meisner

Commentary on Part II: climate change-media / Joe Smith

Climate science, populism, and the democracy of rejection / Mark B. Brown

Explaining information sources in climate policy debates / Dallas J. Elgin and Christopher M. Weible

Navigating controversies in search of neutrality: analyzing efforts by public think tanks to inform climate change policy / Jason Delborne

Commentary on Part III: beyond polarization, the limits to technogratic and activist approaches to climate politics / Matthew C. Nisbet

Governing subjectivities in a carbon constrained world / Matthew Paterson and Johannes Stripple

Making climate-science communication evidence-based: all the way down / Dan M. Kahan

Commentary on Part IV: rethinking climate change communication / Alison Anderson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415661485

041566148X

9780415661492

0415661498

OCLC:

858355497