Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Paperback)

by Susanne C. Moser (Editor), Lisa Dilling (Editor)
Key Phrases: change contrarians, climate change communication, communicating climate change, United States, New York, Santa Monica (more...)

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"Anyone interested in climate change issues will find something of value here...glad of the insights gained from readingCreating a Climate for Change.
Lawrence A. Coleman, Ecology

"[The book's] core message about rethinking the information model for communicating climate change is easily translated into rhetorical terms and thus interesting as an early analysis of a challenge that is only growing in importance and urgency. ...scholars looking for bodies of public discourse on climate change will be guided to several such stories by articles in this collection. ...the articles in this collection can be read for evidence of how climate change has been refracted through the discourses of American social science and politics. In order that rhetoric and the humanities may play a greater role in shaping our culture's response to climate change, I urge QJS to examine Creating a Climate for change." - Michael Svoboda, Quarterly Journal of Speech

Product Description
The need for effective communication, public outreach and education to increase support for policy, collective action and behaviour change is ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating climate change in order to facilitate societal response. It offers well-founded, practical suggestions on how to communicate climate change and how to approach related social change more effectively. The contributors of this book come from a diverse range of backgrounds, from government and academia to non-governmental and civic sectors of society. The book is accessibly written, and any specialized terminology is explained. It will be of great interest to academic researchers and professionals in climate change, environmental policy, science communication, psychology, sociology and geography.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition (December 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 052104992X
• ISBN-13: 978-0521049924
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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