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CUlTURE, POllTICS AND CllMATE CHANGE Focusing onculturalvaluesandnorms astheyaretranslatedintopoliticsandpolicy outcomes, this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varieddisciplines andfromboththedeveloped anddeveloping world. This collection draws from multiple perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of c1imate change politics and culture. lt is divided into four sections - Culture and Climate Change Communication, Media as Actors and Contributors to Climate Politics andPolicy,Climate PoliticsandPolicy,andEmergingResearchinClimate Politics andPolicy- eachfollowedbyacommentaryfromakeyexpertinthefield.Thebook includes analysis ofthe challenges and opportunities for establishing successful communicationonclimatechange among scientists,themedia,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 studentsandscholarsofclimatechange,environment studies,environmentalpolicy, communication, culturalstudies,media studies,politics, andsociology. DeseraiA.Crow isanAssistantProfessorintheEnvironmentalStudiesProgram, CenterforScienceandTechnologyPolicyResearchandCenterforEnvironmental Journalismatthe University ofColorado, USA. Maxwell T. Boykoff is Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Seiences (CIRES) and anAssistant Professor atthe University of Colorado, USA. Thispage intentionallyleftbank CUlTURE, POllTICS AND CllMATE CHANGE How information shapes our common future Edited by Deserai A. Crow and Maxwell T. Boykott Firstpublished2014 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OXI44RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 Routledge isanimprint oftheTaylor& FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2014 selectionandeditorialmaterial, DeseraiA.Crowand Maxwell1. Boykoff;individualchapters,thecontributors TherightofDeserai A.Crowand Maxwell1. Boykofftobeidentifiedas authorsoftheeditorialmaterial,andoftheindividualauthorsasauthorsof theircontributions, hasbeen assertedbythem inaccordancewith sections 77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct 1988. Allrights reserved.Nopartofthis bookmay bereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyform orbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin any informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublication Data Acataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefrom theBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Culture,politicsandclimatechange:how informationshapesourcommon future /editedbyDeseraiA.CrowandMaxwell1.Boykoff. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesand index. I.Climaticchanges- Public opinion.2.Climaticchanges- Political aspects. 3.Mass mediaandtheenvironment.4.Environmental responsibility. I.Crow, Deserai A., 1975- QC903.C87 2014 304.2·5-dc23 2013036830 ISBN13:978-0-415-66148-5(hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-66149-2(pbk) ISBN13:978-0-203-07340-7(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byHWATextand Data Management,London ForJason,Anderson,andJosephine. D.C. InmemoryofCarl M. Moore. M.B. 'This important new book explores the cultural politics of climate change. With dispatches from the front lines of diverse fields and geographies, the authors provide someofthefirstmaps ofthisfastevolving landscape underlying some of themost important decisions humanity will make inthe21stcentury.' AnthonyLeiserowitz, YaleUniversity, USA 'Climatechange isthe most important environmental challenge wefaceyet there has been littlepolitical action to address the problem. Thisvolume examines the reasons forinaction, byconsideringdifferent culturalandethicalperspectivesand howthemedia plays arole intranslatingandpresentingscientificinformation. It provides the most comprehensive assessment available, byleading experts inthe field.' RaymondBradley, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, USA 'Ifyou can'tkeep upwith the firehose of daily informationand communication about climate change, much lessmake sense ofwhatitallmeans andwhat ittells usaboutnotjustourclimate, butalsoaboutourculture,themedia, andthepolitics that choreograph our dance around the burning question ofwhatto do about the problem, then Irecommendyoufindacomfortable chair,stepbackfromtheheat, and read this book. Here are some great people trying to sort out the complex terrain of media and culture that lies between our everyday lives and the "grand stage" of climate change politics and policy-making. lt isnot all pretty, but it is helpful, andtherefore hopeful.' Susanne Moser,Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, Starford; USA 'The onlything more complex than the climate system isthe tangle ofmeanings we'vewrapped around it.Thevariedperspectivesgathered inthisimportant book goalongwaytoward unsnarling the cultural politics ofclimate change-thefirst stepinweaving the stories andpolicies we'lI needto move forward.' Jean Goodwin, lowa State University, USA 'Fromcitizens'perspectivesoverthe"old" and"new"mediaallthewaytopolitics and decision-making- Crow and Boykoff'svolume isan excellent example ofa societal turn in the analysis of climate change, and deals with its most pressing issues.' Mike Schaler, University ofZurich, Switzerland CONTENTS L~toffigu~s x Listoftables Xl Listofcontributors XII Acknowledgements XVII Introduction 1 DeseraiA. Crow andMaxwell T Boykoff PART I Culture and c1imatechange communication 21 1 Beyond 'gloom and doom' or 'hope and possibility': making room for both sacrifice and reward in ourvisions ofa low-carbon future 23 CherylHall 2 Polarbears, Inuit names, and climate citizenship: understanding climate change visual culture through green consumerism, environmental philanthropy, and indigeneity 39 Doreen E. Martinez CommentaryonPart I:Beyond climate, beyond change 55 Mike Hulme viii Contents PART 11 Media asactorsand contributors to c1imate politics and policy 61 3 #Climatenews: Summitjoumalism and digital networks 63 Matthew Tegelberg, Dmitry Yagodin andAdrienneRussell 4 TVweathercasters and climate education inthe shadow of climate change conflict 83 VanessaSchweizer, Sara Cobb, William Schroeder, Grace Chau andEdwardMaibach 5 Re-examiningthe media-policy link: climate change and governmentelites inPeru 102 Bruno Takahashi andMarkS. Meisner Commentary on Part I1: Climate change - media 121 Joe Smith PART 111 Climate politicsand policy 127 6 Climate science, populism, and the democracy ofrejection 129 MarkB. Brown 7 Explaining information sources inclimate policy debates 146 DallasJ Elgin andChristopherM Weible 8 Navigatingcontroversies insearch ofneutrality: analyzing efforts bypublic think tanks to inform climate change policy 163 Jason Delborne Commentary on Part III: Beyond polarization - the limits to technocratic and activist approaches to climate politics 180 Matthew C.Nisbet PART IV Emerging researchin c1imate politicsand policy 187 9 Goveming subjectivities inacarbon constrained world 189 Matthew Patersan andJohannes Stripple Contents ix 10 Making climate-science communicationevidence-based: allthe way down 203 DanM Kahan CommentaryonPart IV:Rethinking climate change communication 221 Alison Anderson Index 228
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