Balancing Paradigms in Climate Change Communication Research to Support Climate Services

Leon, Inez Z. Ponce de; Gotangco, Charlotte Kendra Z

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69838-0_12

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“…Climate services and other activities carried out by Decision-making and Stakeholder Engagement researchers could benefit from the broad array of tools studied and practiced in the other knowledge communities; similarly, researchers from other knowledge communities might benefit from having a living laboratory where climate communication strategies could be developed, applied, or tested. In fact, some scholars in risk communication (Lindenfeld et al, 2012(Lindenfeld et al, , 2014 and climate services (Donkor et al, 2019;Ponce de Leon and Cotangco, 2018) have previously called attention to this opportunity and encouraged scholars and practitioners to reach across the gap. The salience of the recently published large gray node from this community (Cook and Overpeck, 2019) illustrates the potential benefit of building these bridges.…”

Section: Climate Services and Co-production Offer An Opportunity To B...mentioning

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Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science

Canon¹,

Boyle

Hepworth

2022

Public Underst Sci

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Climate communication is a thriving research area spanning science, social science, and humanities. The field has grown explosively in recent years, necessitating increased efforts to synthesize and make sense of the resulting profusion of studies. To support scholars navigating this quickly evolving knowledge domain, we developed a knowledge map of the climate communication research landscape by applying network analysis and data visualization techniques to the metadata from 2995 publications on climate communication. The map reveals a dense web of connections among five distinct knowledge communities, indicating a tightly knit and intensely collaborative knowledge domain, and suggests new avenues for the application of climate communication knowledge, in particular to support climate services and co-production. The climate communication knowledge map answers the call for synoptic perspectives on areas of science communication while demonstrating a novel visual approach to knowledge synthesis for science communication domains.

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Section: Climate Services and Co-production Offer An Opportunity To B...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science

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Boyle

Hepworth

2022

Public Underst Sci

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A Comparison of Government Communication of Climate Change in Hong Kong and United Kingdom

Ferranti

Wong

Dhesi

2021

Weather, Climate, and Society

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As leaders of civil society, governments have a prime responsibility to communicate climate change information in order to motivate their citizens to mitigate and adapt. This study compares the approaches of the United Kingdom (UK) and Hong Kong (HK) governments. Although different in size and population, the UK and HK have similar climate change agendas to communicate to similarly educated and prosperous populations. The study finds that whilst both governments use similar means: policy, education, campaigns, internet and social media, these have different characteristics, with different emphases in their climate change message. The UK’s top-down approach is more prominent in its legally binding policy and well-defined programmes for adaptation and risk assessment. HK has more effectively embedded climate change education across the school curricula, and has a more centralized and consistently branded campaign, with widespread use of visual language to connect the public to the problem. HK frames climate change as a science-society problem, and has a greater focus on self-responsibility and bottom-up behavioral change. Thus, the UK and HK governments have polarized approaches to motivating their citizens into climate action. Moving forwards, both governments should consider best practice elements of the other to develop their communication of climate change.

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Balancing Paradigms in Climate Change Communication Research to Support Climate Services

Cited by 2 publications

References 78 publications

Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science

Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science

A Comparison of Government Communication of Climate Change in Hong Kong and United Kingdom

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