Best Practices in Environmental Communication: A Case Study of Louisiana's Coastal Crisis

Communicating Climate Science: A Matter of Credibility—Swedish Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate-Change Information

“…Whether the specific information sources are specialized magazines, colleagues or extension services as in this study or climate scientists (Attari et al 2016;Carlton et al 2015;Collins and Nerlich 2016;Kotcher et al 2017), government agencies (Amars et al 2017;Twongyirwe et al 2015), formal and informal communicators (Sleeth -Kepler et al 2017), community meetings (Egeru 2016), climate services/intermediaries (Reinecke 2015), or Pope Francis (Li et al 2016), it is of great importance to select experts who have experience, and credibility, in a given community (Jarreau et al 2017). Because evidence about climate change is evaluated by different individuals according to their preexisting ideological and value-based beliefs, Hahn et al (2016) conclude that communicating the consensus as a strategy for public engagement on climate change is a much more complex proposition than it first appears.…”

“…Taken together, these studies suggests that content credibility is tightly linked to audience perception of valid knowledge production and strengthens findings on the importance of transparency, inclusion and dialogue for increased credibility in climate change information processes. Hence, effective climate change communication need not only take into account audience segmentation with regard to perceptions of climate change (Wibeck 2013;Jarreau 2017), but segment audiences with regard to underlying views of information and credibility.…”

Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

“…Advertisements with low-level (evoking self-conscious emotions) rather than high-level guilt appeals (eliciting a greater degree of guilt for not being environmentally conscious) received favourable responsessuggesting that the intensity of emotion evoked is an important factor in guilt appeal effectiveness (Jiménez & Yang, 2008). Attempts to evoke a strong sense of guilt runs the risk of being perceived as personal attacks (Jiménez & Yang, 2008 (Carmi, Arnon, & Orion, 2015;Jarreau et al, 2017;Kals, Schumacher, & Montada, 1999). This emotional bond towards nature gave rise to what might be termed a human-nature relationship framea frame that increased in English language literature from the 1820s to 1980s (Antal & Drews, 2015).…”

Credibility aspects of research-based gaming in science communication — the case of The Maladaptation Game

“…For example, Attari, Krantz and Weber [2016] found that climate researchers' credibility stands in relation to their carbon footprints and may suffer when they advocate specific policies [Kotcher et al, 2017]. Furthermore, Jarreau, Altinay and Reynolds [2017] highlighted the importance of selecting experts who have experience, and credibility, within a given community and who can tailor messages to the audience to which they are speaking. Studies have demonstrated that some audiences rely primarily on formal communicators, such as scientists and politicians, for information about climate change solutions while others rely more on various informal communicators [Sleeth-Keppler, Perkowitz and Speiser, 2017], such as Pope Francis [Li et al, 2016].…”