Marie-Elodie Perga et al: “The climate change research that makes the front page: Is it fit to engage societal action?“, Global Environmental Change, Volume 80, May 2023, 102675, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.001
By growing awareness for and interest in climate change, media coverage enlarges the window of opportunity by which research can engage individuals and collectives in climate actions. However, we question whether the climate change research that gets mediatized is fit for this challenge. Reviewing the social psychological mechanisms that underlie behavioral change, we challenge the current criteria used to judge newsworthiness and argue that the consequent mediatization of climate change research fails to breed real society engagement in actions.
Candice Howarth et al: “Effectively Communicating Climate Science beyond Academia: Harnessing the Heterogeneity of Climate Knowledge“, One Earth, Volume 2, Issue 4, 24 April 2020, Pages 320-324, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.001
Approaches to communicating climate science beyond academia are necessary for enhancing salience, understanding, and engagement and accelerating action. This Primer discusses the heterogeneous manner in which climate change messaging is received by different audiences, how social scientific approaches could help to better tailor climate change messaging to this varied landscape, and how attempts to close this gap must consider the emotional and affective dimensions of climate messaging.
Kate Manzo: “The usefulness of climate change films“, Geoforum Volume 84, August 2017, Pages 88-94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.06.006
Climate change films are relevant to geographers working in sub-disciplines, such as environmental management, climate science and visual studies. This paper assesses the usefulness of climate change films in light of ongoing debates in science communication and climate change communication about the best-known and most popular movies. The paper evaluates usefulness in terms of the work that climate change films do and the methods they use.
Lucy M. Richardson, David C. Holmes (ed.): Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change, Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/edcoll/9781789900392/9781789900392.xml
International scholars survey the key disciplinary foundations of climate change communication including: climate science, audience studies, sociology, and the efficacy of diverse communication forms ranging from science communication, political communication and visual communication to film, theatre and the novel. Featuring key ideas critical to the contemporary climate discussion, such as climate denial, psychology, the use of images, journalism, campaigns, health, justice and climate change fiction, this timely Research Handbook intervenes in the global debate to offer a pathway for researchers and communicators to stimulate new methods of conceptualising and communicating climate mitigation.
Anders Hansen, Robert Cox (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, Routledge 2022, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003119234
Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text is a must for scholars and students of environmental communication across multiple subject areas, including environmental studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.
Susanne C. Moser & Lisa Dilling: Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, Cambridge University Press 2007, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535871
Creating a Climate for Change 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.
