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Fracking on YouTube: Exploring Risks, Benefits and Human Values.
(White Horse Press, 2014-10-01)
Fracking or the extraction of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing of rock has become a contested topic, especially in the United States, where it has been deployed on a large scale, and in Europe where it is still largely ...
Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus
(Wiley, 2015-11-01)
Climate change has been the subject of increasing efforts by scientists to understand its causes and implications; it has been of growing interest to policymakers, international bodies, and a variety of nongovernment ...
When Climate Science Became Climate Politics: British Media Representations of Climate Change in 1988.
(SAGE, 2012-05-11)
Climate change has become a pressing environmental concern for scientists, social commentators and politicians. Previous social science research has explored media representations of climate change in various temporal and ...
Contesting Science by Appealing to its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in The Daily Mail.
(SAGE, 2012)
This study examines the rhetorical aspects of social contestation of climate change in reader comments published in the Daily Mail, subsequent to climategate. The following themes are reported: (1) denigration of climate ...
UK Media Representations of Carbon Capture and Storage: Actors, Frames and Metaphors
(Metaphor and the Social World, 2013)
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of ...
Fracking in the UK Press: Threat Dynamics in an Unfolding Debate
(Public Understanding of Science, 2014)
Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing,
or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as
manifested in the UK press at three key ...
Human Responses to Climate Change: Social Representation, Identity and Socio-Psychological Action.
(Environmental Communication, 2014)
Climate change is one of the most important global challenges in the twenty-first century, given that a changing climate is likely to have negative and potentially irreversible consequences for the environment and human ...
Images of Extreme Weather: Symbolising Human Responses to Climate Change
(2014)
Extreme weather events have been increasingly in the news, accompanied by images. At the end of 2011, when such reports were ever present, the International Panel on Climate Change published a draft report on extreme weather ...
Attribution matters: revisiting the link between extreme weather experience and climate change mitigation responses
(Elsevier, 2018-11-23)
The literature suggests that extreme weather experiences have potential to increase climate change engagement
by influencing the way people perceive the proximity and implications of climate change. Yet, limited attention
has ...
Socio-demographic differences in environmental concern and willingness to pay for addressing global climate change in Pakistan
(Brill, 2015-01-01)
Previous research indicates that socio-demographic attributes are important predictors
of environmental concern. However, this research mainly focused on Western societies,
with minimal representation of non-Western ...