The Daily Globe - Environmental Change, the Public and the Media

Arguably the greatest challenges facing humanity are environmental. However, they are routinely under-reported in the media. Pressure groups and governments trying to get information through to the public often blame the media, but the picture is not necessarily this simple. This text presents the state of knowledge about media treatment and public understanding of key environmental issues, above all, climate change and biodiversity loss, which have enormous implications for economic, social and environmental security, yet mean little to the person in the street. The concept of sustainable development, which underpins responses to these problems is also shown to be unknown by most people.

List of contents

Preface * Part I: Global Environmental Change, the Public and the Media * Part II: Reporting Global Environmental Change * Part III: Understanding Environment, the Public and the Media * Part IV: Making the Environment News * Appendix 1: Climate Change: a Note by the UK Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Robert M May, September 1997 * Appendix 2: The Present Status and the Future Prospects for Sir Robert M May * Index

About the author

Joe Smith is Lecturer in Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and Co-Director of the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme.

Summary

This text presents the state of knowledge about media treatment and public understanding of key environmental issues. Above all, climate change and biodiversity loss have enormous implications yet mean little to the person in the street due to under-reporting.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joe Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9781853836640
• ISBN: 978-1-85383-664-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 317 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology