Engaging the Public with Climate Change
Title | Engaging the Public with Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Lorraine Whitmarsh |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136540482 |
Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged. This book answers the urgent call for effective engagement methods to foster sustainable lifestyles, community action, and social change. Written by practitioners and academics, the chapters combine theoretical perspectives with case studies and practical guidance, examining what works and what doesn't, and providing transferable lessons for future engagement approaches. Showcasing innovative thought and approaches from around the world, this book is essential reading for anyone working to foster real and lasting behavioural and social change.
Engaging with Climate Change
Title | Engaging with Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Weintrobe |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0415667607 |
This book explores what climate change means to people. It brings members of a range of disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion, introducing a psychoanalytic perspective.
Engaging the Public with Climate Change
Title | Engaging the Public with Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Lorraine Whitmarsh |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1136540474 |
Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged. This book answers the urgent call for effective engagement methods to foster sustainable lifestyles, community action, and social change. Written by practitioners and academics, the chapters combine theoretical perspectives with case studies and practical guidance, examining what works and what doesn't, and providing transferable lessons for future engagement approaches. Showcasing innovative thought and approaches from around the world, this book is essential reading for anyone working to foster real and lasting behavioural and social change.
Climate Change Education
Title | Climate Change Education PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 2012-01-12 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0309218454 |
The global scientific and policy community now unequivocally accepts that human activities cause global climate change. Although information on climate change is readily available, the nation still seems unprepared or unwilling to respond effectively to climate change, due partly to a general lack of public understanding of climate change issues and opportunities for effective responses. The reality of global climate change lends increasing urgency to the need for effective education on earth system science, as well as on the human and behavioral dimensions of climate change, from broad societal action to smart energy choices at the household level. The public's limited understanding of climate change is partly the result of four critical challenges that have slowed development and delivery of effective climate change education. As one response to these challenges, Congress, in its 2009 and 2010 appropriation process, requested that the National Science Foundation (NSF) create a program in climate change education to provide funding to external grantees to improve climate change education in the United States. To support and strengthen these education initiatives, the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council (NRC) created the Climate Change Education Roundtable. The Roundtable convened two workshops. Climate Change Education Goals, Audiences, and Strategies is a summary of the discussions and presentations from the first workshop, held October 21 and 22, 2010. This report focuses on two primary topics: public understanding and decision maker support. It should be viewed as an initial step in examining the research on climate change and applying it in specific policy circumstances.
Talking Climate
Title | Talking Climate PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Corner |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 153 |
Release | 2016-11-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3319467441 |
This book describes a fresh approach to climate change communication: five core principles for public engagement that can propel climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream. The question of how to communicate about climate change, and build public engagement in high-consuming, carbon-intensive Western nations, has occupied researchers, practitioners, and campaigners for more than two decades. During this time, limited progress has been made. Socially and culturally, climate change remains the preserve of a committed but narrow band of activists. Public engagement is stuck in second gear. By spanning the full width of the space between primary academic research and campaign strategies, this book will be relevant for academics, educators, campaigners, communicators and practitioners.
Philosophy and Climate Change
Title | Philosophy and Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Budolfson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2021-04-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192516124 |
Climate change is poised to threaten, disrupt, and transform human life, and the social, economic, and political institutions that structure it. Philosophy and Climate Change argues that understanding climate change, and discussing how to address it, should be at the very center of our public conversation. It shows that philosophy can make an enormous contribution to that conversation, but only if both philosophers and non-philosophers understand what it can contribute. The sixteen original articles collected in this volume both illustrate the diverse ways that philosophy can contribute to this conversation, and ways in which thinking about climate change can help to illuminate a range of topics of independent interest to philosophers.
Public Will, Activism and Climate Change
Title | Public Will, Activism and Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Maibach |
Publisher | Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | 123 |
Release | 2020-01-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 2889633748 |