Communicating the Climate: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge
About this issue
This volume explores the question of whether science should be centered in climate-change communication.
Content
climate change
Promoting Health, Combating Climate Change: How the Promotores de Salud Network in the US-Mexico Borderlands is Building Climate Resilience
Schur Petri demonstrates how local health workers can effectively communicate climate risks on the ground.
Remembering Nature in Climate Change: Re-thinking Climate Science and Climate Communication through Critical Theory
Born uses Critical Theory to explore the role of science in climate communication.
Experiencing Tomorrow: The Importance of Immersive Arts for Climate Science Communication
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
Tabak explores the potential of novels for communicating about climate change.
Let's Say It in Their Own Words
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
Kleemann argues that interdisciplinarity is key to successfully tackling climate change.
A Level Playing Field, or the Hope for Science as a Common Ground
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.
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.