Remembering Nature in Climate Change: Re-thinking Climate Science and Climate Communication through Critical Theory

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Born uses Critical Theory to explore the role of science in climate communication.

Experiencing Tomorrow: The Importance of Immersive Arts for Climate Science Communication

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Gebhardt Fearns explores the potential of the immersive arts for communicating climate change.

Science in Fiction: A Brief Look at the Potential of Communicating Climate Change through the Novel

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Tabak explores the potential of novels for communicating about climate change.

Let's Say It in Their Own Words

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.

Telling Stories of a Changed Climate: The Laki Fissure Eruption and the Interdisciplinarity of Climate History

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Kleemann argues that interdisciplinarity is key to successfully tackling climate change.

A Level Playing Field, or the Hope for Science as a Common Ground

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Oomen argues that science has an important role in climate communication as a common ground and honest broker.

"The Influence of Climate Fiction: An Empirical Survey of Readers"

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson investigates the impact of climate fiction on American readers through a qualitative survey, and assesses the results based on concepts borrowed from ecocriticism, environmental psychology, and environmental communication.

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Crosscurrents episode 5: Ashlee Cunsolo and Sean Kheraj

The fifth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series, John Sandlos interviews Ashlee Cunsolo on the concept of ecological grief among indigenous communities in Labrador, Canada; Sean Kheraj speaks about the history of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project.

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Crosscurrents episode 6: “Climate Change and Energy Futures Workshop”

Episode 6 of Crosscurrents features talks and short interviews from the Climate Change and Energy Futures workshop. The 2018 workshop imagined futures related to climate change and energy, with attention to the social values that underlie decision-making in a carbon-constrained world.

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Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland)

In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Jeroen Oomen and Adam Sébire delve into the world of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies through a video triptych in Hellisheiði in Iceland. The three screens, shown here in one video, capture experiments at Hellishei∂i, aspects of the sequestered CO₂, and an imagined future.

Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey

Communicating global environmental issues in new and exciting ways can lead to a better public understanding of academic research. The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) present their interdisciplinary projects through short, immersive videos, accompanied by analytical contextualization. These six 360º videos and one multiple-screen video triptych, shot in different countries and ecosystems, aim to bring people closer to an in situ experience of global environments, their complexities, and our relationship to them.

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Doctoral researchers, ENHANCE ITN

The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) are funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, and spread across four leading academic institutions: the Deutsches Museum, the Rachel Carson Center, KTH Stockholm, and the University of Leeds

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Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland)

Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey

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