Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-49054-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication. As climate change has moved further up the political agenda, the challenge of how to communicate the scientific, social, and political aspects of the climate emergency is of increasing interest to researchers, NGOs, governments, and policymakers at national and international levels. The Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication provides a concise and expert summary of this growing field, explaining the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years and describing the origins and connections to broader topics including: risk perception; environmental journalism; social media; and climate justice and activism. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is divided into eight key parts:

Part I: Introduction

Part II: Conceptual Challenges

Part III: Methodological Considerations

Part IV: Communicating Climate Science across Cultures

Part V: Journalism and News Reportage

Part VI: Activism and Social Movements

Part VII: Audiences and Popular Culture

Part VIII: Future Directions

Taking stock of the current landscape of climate change communication and helping to shape the field of inquiry going forward, this is a go-to guide for established and newly interested researchers, for government and policymaking bodies, and for students and their instructors.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Alison

Howarth, Candice

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

Alison Anderson and Candice Howarth

Part One: Conceptual Challenges

Chapter 1: Framing in Climate Crisis Communication: An Overview of Research across Frame Production, Media Frames, Audience Frames, and Framing Effects

Lars Guenther and Daniela Mahl

Chapter 2: Climate change as a post-political issue

Pieter Maeseele

Chapter 3: Deliberation and Democratic Innovations in the Climate Crisis

Andy Yuille and Rebecca Willis

Chapter 4: Multi-level Miscommunication: on fragmented communications and mismatched framings of climate crisis in multi-level governance

Erica Russell and Ian Christie

Chapter 5: Talk about it: The role of private-sphere conversations in ecological crisis communication

Marlis Wullenkord and Maria Johansson

Part Two: Methodological Considerations

Chapter 6: Narrative Analysis: The Ideological Dimensions of Climate Discourse

Shondel Nero and Raul Lejano

Chapter 7: Approaches to Climate Change Visual Research: Methods, Audiences, Practices Christopher Rogers

Chapter 8: Co-production approaches in climate communication

Alessandra Palange

Chapter 9: Discourse analysis in climate communication

Chris Russill and Ghadah Alrasheed

Chapter 10: Online Research Methods: Designing Studies of Digital Climate Communications

Jill Hopke

Part Three:  Communicating Climate Science across Cultures

Chapter 11: Transnational Climate Justice: Anti-Authoritarian Climate Movements and Digital Media in a (post-)Pandemic World

Hanna Morris

Chapter 12: Climate justice in the media: The representation of indigenous communities and climate migrant/refugees

Gabriela Galindo

Chapter 13: Climate change crisis communication in Asia: State of the research field and case studies from India, Indonesia, and Malaysia

Raksha Pandya-Wood, Lucy Richardson, Azliyana Azhari and Jagdish Thaker 

Chapter 14: Exploring The Multi-Layered Landscape of Climate Change Communication in East Asia:  A Social Process Perspective

Jingyuan Wu

Chapter 15: Climate Change Communication Research: A Latin American Perspective

Bruno Takahashi, Iasmin Amiden dos Santos, Fernanda Salas and Carolina Gil Posse

Part Four: Journalism and News Reportage

Chapter 16: Climate Change in the Legacy and Online News Media: Reviewing Scholarly Literature on Production, Presentation & Consumption

Mike S. Schäfer and Daniela Mahl

Chapter 17: Voices from the Front-lines of environmental crisis: reporting climate and environment from the Global South

Gabi Mocatta, Nicholas Payne, Shaneka Saville and Kristy Hess

Chapter 18: Climate change communication: Reflections on discursive and performative affordances of social media networks

Anoop Kumar and M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef

Chapter 19: Conspiracies as one of the dangers of online climate change communication: Origins, spread and impact

Marianna Poberezhskaya

Chapter 20: Climate crisis and an injunction to care: Exploring women’s reportage on disasters in Australia

Deb Anderson and Nicolette Snowden

Part Five: Activism and Social Movements

Chapter 21: Digital activism and transnational movements: Climate change protest in the digital age

Susan Forde

Chapter 22: Climate Movement Message Construction – A Three-pronged Challenge of Collective Identity, Actions, and Words

Sol Agin

Chapter 23: Youth activism and the call for generational responsibility in climate politics

Tânia R. Santos, Daniela Ferreira da Silva and Anabela Carvalho

Chapter 24: Climate Justice Pedagogy: Integrating Science, Activism and Care

Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, Anne Marie Todd, Costanza Rampini and Eugene C. Cordero

Chapter 25: The challenge of being 'trusted messengers' on climate change: Practical strategies for more effective climate change teaching in higher education

Olivia Taylor and Melissa Lazenby

Part Six:  Audiences and Popular Culture

Chapter 26: The Walk, the Talk, and the Misdirection: Digitalisation and the Deflection of Climate Crisis in US and UK Screen Culture

Hunter Vaughan

Chapter 27: Influencer or Opinion leader? Different approaches to defining and identifying environmentally conscious individuals on social media

Yuliya Samofalova

Chapter 28: Promoting veganism: The cultural role of celebrities and influencers in the reframing of meat and dairy as a climate issue

Julie Doyle

Chapter 29: Good Natured Climate Comedy to the Rescue

Beth Osnes and Max Boykoff

Chapter 30: Communicating Climate Change on Tik Tok

Brigitte Huber

Part Seven: Future Directions

Chapter 31: Sustainable journalism in a crisis: taking agency and authorship

Casey Fung and Franzisca Weder

Chapter 32: Sense-making: How interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate change

Declan Fahy

Chapter 33: Where Next for Carbon Literacy? Tackling Climate Misinformation and Addressing Climate (In)Justice

Brenda McNally

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Anderson, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is former Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge journal Environmental Communication. Her published books include Media, Environment and the Network Society (Palgrave, 2014) and Media, Culture and the Environment (Routledge, 1997). She is a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Environmental Communication and the Journal of Environmental Media.

Candice Howarth (PhD) is Head of Climate Adaptation and Resilience at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her published books include Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2022) and Resilience to Climate Change: Communication, Collaboration and Co-production (Palgrave, 2019). She has published widely with 1,700 citations on Google Scholar. She is an Associate Deputy Editor of the journal Climatic Change and sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Environmental Communication.