Mass Media And Climate Change Perceptions Among Youth
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| Author | : S. Sarada |
| Publisher | : Notion Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2019-10-29 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781646509966 |
Climate Change is a serious problem worldwide. The Earth is warming up and the causes range from natural to man-made. Industrial emissions, emissions from vehicles and burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, etc. are affecting the energy balance of Earth, causing drastic changes in climate. Climate Change has a severe impact on several facets of our day to day lives, livelihoods, agriculture and food security, biodiversity and ecosystems, water resources, health, human settlements and migration patterns, transport and energy. The effectiveness with which society responds to climate change depends on how well the issue is understood by individual citizens. Mass media plays an essential role in informing the public, raising awareness and understanding of science issues and promoting positive action. The media is a strategic partner in the area of climate information dissemination, warning, adaptation and mitigation. Very few people have access to scientific literature on this topic, they generally rely upon media presentations of climate change. India has a very large percentage of the youth population in the world. Youth can play a critical role in climate change. They are the segment of population that will take climate change mitigation efforts forward for they are the ones who will be most affected by climate change in the future. The present study explores the level of awareness of climate change among the youth, their level of engagement and an analysis of the effect of mass media and other information sources in shaping the youth's opinions about climate change. It examines if information obtained from mass media and other sources has a role to play in the adoption of environmentally sensitive behavior among youth. This piece of research can be utilized by researchers and academicians of environmental studies, bio-diversity, climate change studies and policymakers in the area of mass media and climate change.
| Author | : Tammy Boyce |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Climatic changes |
| ISBN | : 9781433104602 |
| Author | : Jing-Hwei Jenny Tzeng |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Climatic changes |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Wei-Yin Chen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 2130 |
| Release | : 2012-02-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781441979926 |
There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic. Reducing the 24 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from stationary and mobile sources is a gigantic task involving both technological challenges and monumental financial and societal costs. The pursuit of sustainable energy resources, environment, and economy has become a complex issue of global scale that affects the daily life of every citizen of the world. The present mitigation activities range from energy conservation, carbon-neutral energy conversions, carbon advanced combustion process that produce no greenhouse gases and that enable carbon capture and sequestion, to other advanced technologies. From its causes and impacts to its solutions, the issues surrounding climate change involve multidisciplinary science and technology. This handbook will provide a single source of this information. The book will be divided into the following sections: Scientific Evidence of Climate Change and Societal Issues, Impacts of Climate Change, Energy Conservation, Alternative Energies, Advanced Combustion, Advanced Technologies, and Education and Outreach.
| Author | : Daniel James Scott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 726 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Climatic changes |
| ISBN | : |
Proceedings of a conference that provided a foundation to begin addressing matters related to communicating the climate change issue in order to raise awareness, confer understanding, and motivate action. Presentations are organized under the following themes: climate change perceptions among scientists & decision makers; influences on public understanding of climate change; organizational roles in communicating about climate change; national & regional communication strategies; climate change perceptions among the public; assessment of media representations of climate change; promotion of community action; stakeholder framing of climate change; communication and the science/policy interface; lessons for civic engagement from other participatory processes; social marketing strategies; community-based communication strategies; climate change education through science fiction; climate change curriculum development; values and responsibility; scenarios as communication tools; engaging youth & educators; linking climate change knowledge & action; stakeholder engagement in the agricultural sector; motivating change; developing an international climate change communication network; communication of natural variability & extremes; the role of libraries & the Internet; and climate change from an Inuit perspective. The final section includes summaries of conference workshops, public forums, and poster papers.
| Author | : Barbara Adam |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134610939 |
Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks - from the BSE or 'mad cow' crisis to global climate change - are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters, as well as 'everyday' hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. How do the media frame 'expert', 'counter-expert' and 'lay public' definitions of environmental risk? What role do environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace or 'eco-warriors' and 'green guerrillas' play in shaping what gets covered and how? Does the media emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting exacerbate the public tendency to overestimate sudden and violent risks and underestimate chronic long-term ones?
| Author | : Anne K. Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2018-11-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1501730819 |
Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate change awareness and growing levels of concern have not translated into meaningful action. Communicating Climate Change provides environmental educators with an understanding of how their audiences engage with climate change information as well as with concrete, empirically tested communication tools they can use to enhance their climate change program. Starting with the basics of climate science and climate change public opinion, Armstrong, Krasny, and Schuldt synthesize research from environmental psychology and climate change communication, weaving in examples of environmental education applications throughout this practical book. Each chapter covers a separate topic, from how environmental psychology explains the complex ways in which people interact with climate change information to communication strategies with a focus on framing, metaphors, and messengers. This broad set of topics will aid educators in formulating program language for their classrooms at all levels. Communicating Climate Change uses fictional vignettes of climate change education programs and true stories from climate change educators working in the field to illustrate the possibilities of applying research to practice. Armstrong et al, ably demonstrate that environmental education is an important player in fostering positive climate change dialogue and subsequent climate change action. Thanks to generous funding from Cornell University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
| Author | : Susan Clayton |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2018-06-05 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0128131314 |
Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses organizes and summarizes recent psychological research that relates to the issue of climate change. The book covers topics such as how people perceive and respond to climate change, how people understand and communicate about the issue, how it impacts individuals and communities, particularly vulnerable communities, and how individuals and communities can best prepare for and mitigate negative climate change impacts. It addresses the topic at multiple scales, from individuals to close social networks and communities. Further, it considers the role of social diversity in shaping vulnerability and reactions to climate change. Psychology and Climate Change describes the implications of psychological processes such as perceptions and motivations (e.g., risk perception, motivated cognition, denial), emotional responses, group identities, mental health and well-being, sense of place, and behavior (mitigation and adaptation). The book strives to engage diverse stakeholders, from multiple disciplines in addition to psychology, and at every level of decision making - individual, community, national, and international, to understand the ways in which human capabilities and tendencies can and should shape policy and action to address the urgent and very real issue of climate change. Examines the role of knowledge, norms, experience, and social context in climate change awareness and action Considers the role of identity threat, identity-based motivation, and belonging Presents a conceptual framework for classifying individual and household behavior Develops a model to explain environmentally sustainable behavior Draws on what we know about participation in collective action Describes ways to improve the effectiveness of climate change communication efforts Discusses the difference between acute climate change events and slowly-emerging changes on our mental health Addresses psychological stress and injury related to global climate change from an intersectional justice perspective Promotes individual and community resilience
| Author | : Sara K. Yeo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2011 |
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| Author | : Grayson Hayes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
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Climate change is the biggest global threat to our planet today and youth will bear the brunt of this threat (Currie & Deschênes, 2016). Recently, we have seen youth stand up and become activists for climate. This qualitative study was conducted on media representations of youth climate change activists because of its usefulness for exploring the complexity of youth voices, and how they are ignored. This research focuses closely on Swedish teen activist, Greta Thunberg, currently 18, and Autumn Peltier, 17, a Canadian Indigenous activist and Chief Water Commissioner of the Anishinabek Nation. By employing Foucault's theory of discourse and power, the sociology of childhood, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989, herein UNCRC), this research provides new insight on our representations of youth activism. Through analysis, there were seven distinct discourses related to the research questions: adults as supporters, active actors, westernized viewpoints, lone and collective activism, media as a gatekeeper/catalyst, hierarchical and power relations, and dismissal of children. Findings showed that to change media's perceptions of youth activism, we must first challenge the discourse of childhood innocence, while also still holding relative power in a non-authoritarian way. The UNCRC (1989) also needs to be integrated further within schools and policy implementation as even though childhood globally shares the same inherent rights, not all youth activists are being afforded the same opportunities that Swedish teen Greta Thunberg has been given.
