Creating a climate for change : communicating climate change and facilitating social change /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Moser, Susanne C., Dilling, Lisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2007]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Weather or climate change? / Ann Bostrom and Daniel Lashof
  • Communicating the risks of global warming : American risk perceptions, affective images, and interpretive communities / Anthony Leiserowitz
  • More bad news : the risk of neglecting emotional responses to climate change information / Susanne C. Moser
  • Public scares : changing the issue culture / Sheldon Ungar
  • The challenge of trying to make a difference using media messages / Sharon Dunwoody
  • Listening to the audience : San Diego hones its communication strategy by soliciting residents' views / Linda Giannelli Pratt and Sarah Rabkin
  • The climate-justice link : communicating risk with low-income and minority audiences / Julian Agyeman ... [et al.]
  • Postcards from the (not so) frozen North : talking about climate change in Alaska / Shannon Mcneely and Orville Huntington
  • Climate change : a moral issue / Sally Bingham
  • Einstein, Roosevelt, and the atom bomb : lessons learned for scientists communicating climate change / Lucy Warner
  • Across the great divide : supporting scientists as effective messengers in the public sphere / Nancy Cole with Susan Watrous
  • Dealing with climate change contrarians / Aaron M. McCright
  • A role for dialogue in communication about climate change / Kathleen Regan
  • Information is not enough / Caron Chess and Branden B. Johnson
  • Stuck in the slow lane of behavior change? : a not-so-superhuman perspective on getting out of our cars / John Tribbia
  • Consumption behavior and narratives about the good life / Laurie Michaelis
  • Educating for "intelligent environmental action" in an age of global warming / Tina Grotzer and Rebecca Lincoln
  • Education for global responsibility / Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Changing the world one household at a time : Portland's 30-day program to lose 5,000 pounds / Sarah Rabkin with David Gershon
  • Changing organizational ethics and practices toward climate and environment / Keith James, April Smith, and Bob Doppelt
  • Change in the marketplace : business leadership and communication / Vicki Arroyo and Benjamin Preston
  • The market as messenger : sending the right signals / John Atcheson
  • Making it easy : establishing energy efficiency and renewable energy as routine best practice / Lisa Dilling and Barbara Farhar
  • Forming networks, enabling leaders, financing action : the Cities for Climate Protection campaign / Abby Young
  • Ending the piecemeal approach : Santa Monica's comprehensive plan for sustainability / Susan Watrous and Natasha Fraley
  • States leading the way on climate change action : the view from the Northeast / Abbey Tennis
  • West Coast Governors' Global Warming Initiative : using regional partnerships to coordinate climate action / Pierre duVair ... [et al.]
  • Building social movements / David S. Meyer
  • Climate litigation : shaping public policy and stimulating debate / Marilyn Averill
  • The moral and political challenges of climate change / Dale Jamieson
  • An ongoing dialogue on climate change : the Boulder Manifesto / Robert Harriss
  • Toward the social tipping point : changing a climate for change / Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling.