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This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication.
List of contents
List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsIntroduction
Alison Anderson and Candice HowarthPart one: Conceptual ChallengesChapter 1: Framing in Climate Crisis Communication: An Overview of Research across Frame Production, Media Frames, Audience Frames, and Framing Effects
Lars Guenther and Daniela MahlChapter 2: Climate change as a post-political issue
Pieter MaeseeleChapter 3: Deliberation and Democratic Innovations in the Climate Crisis
Andy Yuille and Rebecca WillisChapter 4: Multi-level Miscommunication: on fragmented communications and mismatched framings of climate crisis in multi-level governance
Erica Russell and Ian ChristieChapter 5: Talk about it: The role of private-sphere conversations in ecological crisis communication
Marlis Wullenkord and Maria JohanssonPart Two: Methodological ConsiderationsChapter 6: Narrative Analysis: The Ideological Dimensions of Climate Discourse
Shondel Nero and Raul LejanoChapter 7: Approaches to Climate Change Visual Research: Methods, Audiences, Practices
Christopher RogersChapter 8: Co-production approaches in climate communication
Alessandra PalangeChapter 9: Discourse analysis in climate communication
Chris Russill and Ghadah AlrasheedChapter 10: Online Research Methods: Designing Studies of Digital Climate Communications
Jill HopkePart Three: Communicating Climate Science across CulturesChapter 11: Transnational Climate Justice: Anti-Authoritarian Climate Movements and Digital Media in a (post-)Pandemic World
Hanna MorrisChapter 12: Climate justice in the media: The representation of indigenous communities and climate migrant/refugees
Gabriela GalindoChapter 13: Climate change crisis communication in Asia: State of the research field and case studies from India, Indonesia, and Malaysia
Raksha Pandya-Wood, Lucy Richardson, Azliyana Azhari and Jagdish Thaker Chapter 14: Exploring The Multi-Layered Landscape of Climate Change Communication in East Asia: A Social Process Perspective
Jingyuan WuChapter 15: Climate Change Communication Research: A Latin American Perspective
Bruno Takahashi, Iasmin Amiden dos Santos, Fernanda Salas and Carolina Gil PossePart Four: Journalism and News ReportageChapter 16: Climate Change in the Legacy and Online News Media: Reviewing Scholarly Literature on Production, Presentation & Consumption
Mike S. Schäfer and Daniela MahlChapter 17: Voices from the Front-lines of environmental crisis: reporting climate and environment from the Global South
Gabi Mocatta, Nicholas Payne, Shaneka Saville and Kristy HessChapter 18: Climate change communication: Reflections on discursive and performative affordances of social media networks
Anoop Kumar and M. Shuaib Mohamed HaneefChapter 19: Conspiracies as one of the dangers of online climate change communication: Origins, spread and impact
Marianna PoberezhskayaChapter 20: Climate crisis and an injunction to care: Exploring women's reportage on disasters in Australia
Deb Anderson and Nicolette SnowdenPart Five: Activism and Social MovementsChapter 21: Digital activism and transnational movements: Climate change protest in the digital age
Susan FordeChapter 22: Climate Movement Message Construction - A Three-pronged Challenge of Collective Identity, Actions, and Words
Sol AginChapter 23: Youth activism and the call for generational responsibility in climate politics
Tânia R. Santos, Daniela Ferreira da Silva and Anabela CarvalhoChapter 24: Climate Justice Pedagogy: Integrating Science, Activism and Care
Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, Anne Marie Todd, Costanza Rampini and Eugene C. CorderoChapter 25: The challenge of being 'trusted messengers' on climate change: Practical strategies for more effective climate change teaching in higher education
Olivia Taylor and Melissa LazenbyPart Six: Audiences and Popular CultureChapter 26: The Walk, the Talk, and the Misdirection: Digitalisation and the Deflection of Climate Crisis in US and UK Screen Culture
Hunter VaughanChapter 27: Influencer or Opinion leader? Different approaches to defining and identifying environmentally conscious individuals on social media
Yuliya SamofalovaChapter 28: Promoting veganism: The cultural role of celebrities and influencers in the reframing of meat and dairy as a climate issue
Julie DoyleChapter 29: Good Natured Climate Comedy to the Rescue
Beth Osnes and Max BoykoffChapter 30: Communicating Climate Change on Tik Tok
Brigitte HuberPart Seven: Future DirectionsChapter 31: Sustainable journalism in a crisis: taking agency and authorship
Casey Fung and Franzisca WederChapter 32: Sense-making: How interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate change
Declan FahyChapter 33: Where Next for Carbon Literacy? Tackling Climate Misinformation and Addressing Climate (In)Justice
Brenda McNallyIndex
About the author
Alison Anderson, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is former Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge journal
Environmental Communication and has published widely with over 5,700 citations on Google Scholar
. Her published books include
Media, Environment and the Network Society (Palgrave, 2014) and
Media, Culture and the Environment (Routledge, 1997). She is a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including
Environmental Communication and the
Journal of Environmental Media.
Candice Howarth (Ph.D.) is Head of Climate Adaptation and Resilience at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her published books include
Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2022) and
Resilience to Climate Change: Communication, Collaboration and Co-production (Palgrave, 2019). She has published widely with 1,700 citations on Google Scholar. She is Associate Deputy Editor of the journal
Climatic Change and sits on the Editorial Board of the journal
Environmental Communication.
