Culture, Politics and Climate Change

How Information Shapes our Common Future
Herausgeber: Crow, Deserai A; Boykoff, Maxwell T

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Produktbeschreibung

This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415661492
• ISBN-10: 0415661498
• Artikelnr.: 39961785

Autorenporträt

Deserai A. Crow is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, USA. Maxwell T. Boykoff is Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview Introduction Part 1 Culture and Climate Change Communication 1.
Beyond "gloom and doom" or "hope and possibility": Making Room for Both
Sacrifice and Reward in Visions of a Low-Carbon Future 2. Polar Bears,
Inuit Names, and Climate Citizenship: Understanding Climate Change Visual
Culture through Green Consumerism, Environmental Philanthropy, and
Indigeneity Commentary by Mike Hulme Part 2 Media as Actors and
Contributors to the Climate Politics and Policy 3. #Climatenews: Summit
Journalism and Digital Networks 4. TV Weathercasters and Climate Education
in the Shadow of Climate Change Conflict 5. Re-examining the Media-Policy
Link: Climate Change and Government Elites in Peru Commentary by Joe Smith
Part 3 Climate Politics and Policy 6. Climate Science, Populism, and the
Democracy of Rejection 7. Explaining Information Sources in Climate Policy
Debates 8. Navigating Controversies in Search of Neutrality: Analyzing
Efforts by Public Think Tanks to Inform Climate Change Policy Commentary by
Matthew C. Nisbet Part 4 Emerging Research in Climate Politics and Policy
9. Governing Subjectivities in a Carbon Constrained World 10. Making
Climate Science Communication Evidence-based-All the Way Down Commentary by
Alison Anderson