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Culture, Politics and Climate Change : How Information Shapes Our Common Future.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135103347
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.73874
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Culture and climate change communication -- 1 Beyond 'gloom and doom' or 'hope and possibility': making room for both sacrifice and reward in our visions of a low-carbon future -- 2 Polar bears, Inuit names, and climate citizenship: understanding climate change visual culture through green consumerism, environmental philanthropy, and indigeneity -- Commentary on Part I: Beyond climate, beyond change -- Part II Media as actors and contributors to climate politics and policy -- 3 #Climatenews: Summit journalism and digital networks -- 4 TV weathercasters and climate education in the shadow of climate change conflict -- 5 Re-examining the media-policy link: climate change and government elites in Peru -- Commentary on Part II: Climate change - media -- Part III Climate politics and policy -- 6 Climate science, populism, and the democracy of rejection -- 7 Explaining information sources in climate policy debates -- 8 Navigating controversies in search of neutrality: analyzing efforts by public think tanks to inform climate change policy -- Commentary on Part III: Beyond polarization - the limits to technocratic and activist approaches to climate politics -- Part IV Emerging research in climate politics and policy -- 9 Governing subjectivities in a carbon constrained world -- 10 Making climate-science communication evidence-based: all the way down -- Commentary on Part IV: Rethinking climate change communication -- Index.
Summary: This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Culture and climate change communication -- 1 Beyond 'gloom and doom' or 'hope and possibility': making room for both sacrifice and reward in our visions of a low-carbon future -- 2 Polar bears, Inuit names, and climate citizenship: understanding climate change visual culture through green consumerism, environmental philanthropy, and indigeneity -- Commentary on Part I: Beyond climate, beyond change -- Part II Media as actors and contributors to climate politics and policy -- 3 #Climatenews: Summit journalism and digital networks -- 4 TV weathercasters and climate education in the shadow of climate change conflict -- 5 Re-examining the media-policy link: climate change and government elites in Peru -- Commentary on Part II: Climate change - media -- Part III Climate politics and policy -- 6 Climate science, populism, and the democracy of rejection -- 7 Explaining information sources in climate policy debates -- 8 Navigating controversies in search of neutrality: analyzing efforts by public think tanks to inform climate change policy -- Commentary on Part III: Beyond polarization - the limits to technocratic and activist approaches to climate politics -- Part IV Emerging research in climate politics and policy -- 9 Governing subjectivities in a carbon constrained world -- 10 Making climate-science communication evidence-based: all the way down -- Commentary on Part IV: Rethinking climate change communication -- Index.

This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of information. Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, the book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world.

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