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Mass Media Roles in Climate Change Mitigation

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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Abstract

News media portrayals of climate change have strongly influenced personal and global efforts to mitigate it through news production, individual media consumption, and personal engagement. This chapter explores the media framing of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, including the effects of media routines, factors that drive news coverage, the influences of claims-makers, scientists, and other information sources, the role of scientific literacy in interpreting climate change stories, and specific messages that mobilize action or paralysis. It also examines how journalists often explain complex climate science and legitimize sources, how audiences process competing messages about scientific uncertainty, how climate stories compete with other issues for public attention, how large-scale economic and political factors shape news production, and how the media can engage public audiences in climate change issues.

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    Carpenter (2002), Uusi-Rauva (2010)

  4. 4.

    Shanahan (2007), Stern (2006)

  5. 5.

    Moser (2014a)

  6. 6.

    Gushee (2004), Weart (2009)

  7. 7.

    Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Weart (2009)

  8. 8.

    Ungar (1992), Weisskopf (1988), Boykoff and Roberts (2007)

  9. 9.

    Trumbo (1996), Boykoff and Boykoff (2004), Gelbspan (1998), Schneider (2001)

  10. 10.

    Weart (2009), Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Luganda (2005)

  11. 11.

    Thompson (2009), Brainard (2007a)

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    Brainard (2007b)

  13. 13.

    Brainard (2007c)

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    Russell (2008)

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    Goidel et al. (2012)

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    Moser (2014)

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    Boykoff et al. (2013)

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    Good (2008), Herman and Chomsky (1988)

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    Gamson et al. (1992), Price et al. (2005)

  20. 20.

    Entman (1993), Hart (2010)

  21. 21.

    Listerman (2010), Gamson and Modigliani (1989)

  22. 22.

    Takahashi (2010), Dirikx and Gelders (2010)

  23. 23.

    Garcia (2010)

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    Shove (2010), Weaver et al. (2009), Whitmarsh (2009)

  25. 25.

    Lakoff (2004)

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    Woods et al. (2010), Stewart et al. (2009)

  27. 27.

    Lakoff (2004), Schottland (2010)

  28. 28.

    Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Herrmann (2007)

  29. 29.

    Carvalho and Burgess (2005), Weintraub (2007), Agarwal and Narain (1991), Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Antilla (2010), Koteyko (2010)

  30. 30.

    Boykoff (2008), Nisbet (2011), Hilgartner and Bosk (1988)

  31. 31.

    Shanahan (2007), Walton (2007)

  32. 32.

    Manzo (2010), Soroka et al. (2009), Shanahan and Good (2000)

  33. 33.

    Carvalho (2010), Nisbet (2008), Painter (2007), Futerra Sustainability Communications (2006), Institute for Public Policy Research (2006)

  34. 34.

    Farbotko (2005), Jay and Marmot (2009), Leiserowitz (2005), Maibach et al. (2010)

  35. 35.

    Shanahan (2007), Liu et al. (2009), Carvalho (2010), Moeller (2008)

  36. 36.

    Kitzinger (2006), Nisbet et al. (2003)

  37. 37.

    Nisbet and Huge (2006)

  38. 38.

    McComas and Shanahan (1999), Downs (1972)

  39. 39.

    Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Downs (1972, pp. 39–41)

  40. 40.

    Dunlap (1992), Brossard et al. (2004), Jordan and O’Riordan (2000), Boykoff and Roberts (2007)

  41. 41.

    Boykoff and Roberts (2007)

  42. 42.

    Moser (2014)

  43. 43.

    Smith (2005)

  44. 44.

    Moser (2014)

  45. 45.

    Moser (2014)

  46. 46.

    Boykoff et al. (2013)

  47. 47.

    Takahashi and Meisner (2013)

  48. 48.

    Asplund et al. (2013)

  49. 49.

    Pike et al. (2012)

  50. 50.

    Boykoff and Roberts (2007)

  51. 51.

    Moser (2014)

  52. 52.

    Ruddell et al. (2012)

  53. 53.

    Capstick et al. (2013)

  54. 54.

    Reser et al. (2012)

  55. 55.

    Funfgeld and McEvoy (2011)

  56. 56.

    Moser (2014)

  57. 57.

    Moser (2014)

  58. 58.

    Moser (2014)

  59. 59.

    Tribbia and Moser (2008)

  60. 60.

    Spence and Pidgeon (2010)

  61. 61.

    Brown et al. (2011)

  62. 62.

    Moser (2012)

  63. 63.

    Mellman (2011)

  64. 64.

    ecoAmerica (2012)

  65. 65.

    Pike et al. (2012)

  66. 66.

    Smith and Jenkins (2013)

  67. 67.

    Resource Media (2009)

  68. 68.

    Australian Department of Climate Change (2009)

  69. 69.

    Shearer and Rood (2011)

  70. 70.

    Gavin et al. (2010), Resource Media (2012)

  71. 71.

    Connor and Higginbotham (2013)

  72. 72.

    Moser (2014)

  73. 73.

    Resource Media (2012)

  74. 74.

    Adger et al. (2007)

  75. 75.

    Brooks et al. (2005)

  76. 76.

    Doultona and Brown (2009)

  77. 77.

    Farbotko (2005)

  78. 78.

    Barnett et al. (2013)

  79. 79.

    O’Brien et al. (2006)

  80. 80.

    Maibach et al. (2011a, b)

  81. 81.

    Anderson et al. (2013)

  82. 82.

    Corfee-Morlot et al. (2007)

  83. 83.

    Gavin et al. (2010)

  84. 84.

    Dow (2010)

  85. 85.

    Fitzsimmons et al. (2012), Greenberg (2013)

  86. 86.

    Fitzsimmons (2012)

  87. 87.

    Resource Media (2012)

  88. 88.

    Major and Atwood (2004), Kitzinger (2006), Brainard (2006a)

  89. 89.

    Bickerstaff et al. (2008), Yearley (2009), Sonnett (2010), Durfee (2006), Kahlor and Rosenthal (2009)

  90. 90.

    Lorenzoni and Hulme (2009), Brody et al. (2008), Zhao (2009)

  91. 91.

    Herzog et al. (2005), Bell (1994a)

  92. 92.

    Lorenzoni and Pidgeon (2006), The Nielsen Company (2007), Leiserowitz (2005), National Science Board (2008)

  93. 93.

    Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Will (2009), Leiserowitz (2005)

  94. 94.

    Marlowe (2005), Kim (2010)

  95. 95.

    Nisbet (2006), Slovic (1987), Weintraub (2007), Krosnick and Holbrook (2006), Antilla (2010)

  96. 96.

    Jasanoff (1997), Leiserowitz (2006), Baron (2006)

  97. 97.

    Soman et al. (2005)

  98. 98.

    Smith and Leiserowitz (2012)

  99. 99.

    Evans et al. (2014)

  100. 100.

    Calkins and Zlatoper (2001)

  101. 101.

    Carrico et al. (2014)

  102. 102.

    Foust and O’Shannon (2009)

  103. 103.

    Boykoff (2008), Hansen (1994), Anderson (2009), Boykoff and Roberts (2007)

  104. 104.

    Einsiedel (1992), Pellechia (1997)

  105. 105.

    Fedler and Bender (1997), Dunwoody and Griffin (1993), Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Harbinson et al. (2006), Hilgartner and Bosk (1988, p. 62), Wilkins and Patterson (1987), Ereaut and Segnit (2006), Wilson (2000a)

  106. 106.

    Wilson (2002), Wilson (2000b), Bell (1994b), Sundblad et al. (2009)

  107. 107.

    Kitzinger (2006), Yaros (2006), Plate (2009)

  108. 108.

    Harbinson et al. (2006)

  109. 109.

    Detjen et al. (2000), Ryan et al. (1998), Stempel and Culberston (1984), Roscho (1975), Meyer (1988), Mooney (2009)

  110. 110.

    Nisbet (2015)

  111. 111.

    Hansen (1994), Flynn (2002)

  112. 112.

    Boykoff (2007), Plate (2009), Miller and Riechert (2000), McManus (2000), Pidgeon and Gregory (2004), Lorenzoni and Pidgeon (2006), Trumbo (1996), McCright and Dunlap (2003), Leiserowitz (2005), McCright and Dunlap (2000), Freudenburg (2000)

  113. 113.

    McKnight (2010), Stocking and Holstein (2009)

  114. 114.

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2010), McCright and Dunlap (2000, 2003), Wilkins (1993)

  115. 115.

    Newell (2000), Hulme (2006), Ereaut and Segnit (2006), Will (2009)

  116. 116.

    Brittle and Muthuswamy (2009), Wilson (2000), Farnsworth and Lichter (2009)

  117. 117.

    Yankelovich (2003)

  118. 118.

    Grundmann (2006), Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Brittle (2005), Carvalho (2007)

  119. 119.

    Will (2009), Mooney (2009)

  120. 120.

    Brittle (2005)

  121. 121.

    Hulme and Mahony (2010), Freudenburg and Musellia (2010)

  122. 122.

    Harbinson et al. (2006), Weingart et al. (2000), Carvalho and Burgess (2005), Brainard (2006b)

  123. 123.

    Jennings and Hulme (2010)

  124. 124.

    Pollack (2003), Demeritt (2001), Zehr (2000), Wilkins (1993), Zehr (1999), McCright (2007), Schneider (1993), Dunwoody (1999), Corbett and Durfee (2004)

  125. 125.

    Gushee (2004), Brittle (2005)

  126. 126.

    Entman (1989), Dunwoody and Peters (1992), Kitzinger (2006), Mooney (2009)

  127. 127.

    Boykoff and Roberts (2007), Cunningham (2003), Augoustinos et al. (2010)

  128. 128.

    Moser (2014)

  129. 129.

    Gordon et al. (2010), Kuban (2007), Boykoff and Boykoff (2004)

  130. 130.

    Boykoff (2007), Shanahan (2007), Banning (2009), Anderson (2009)

  131. 131.

    Revkin (2007), Boykoff and Rajan (2007), Lee and Yoo (2004), Andreadis and Smith (2007)

  132. 132.

    Shanahan (2007), Columbia Journalism Review editors (2009)

  133. 133.

    Shanahan (2007), Brainard (2007d)

  134. 134.

    Miller (2004), Gavin et al. (2010)

  135. 135.

    Shanahan (2007), McComas and Shanahan (1999), Brainard (2007e), Collins and Evans (2002), Beck (1992)

  136. 136.

    HSBC (2007), Painter (2007), Shanahan (2007), Soroka (2002), Trumbo (1996), Plate (2009), Lowi (1972)

  137. 137.

    Priest (2006), Beck (2010)

  138. 138.

    Stamm et al. (2000), Bord et al. (2000), Ungar (2000), Nisbet and Goidel (2007), Zia and Todd (2010), Mooney (2009)

  139. 139.

    Evans and Durant (1995)

  140. 140.

    Miller (2004)

  141. 141.

    Sturgis and Allum (2004), Eden (1996), Nisbet and Scheufele (2009), Rowe et al. (2005), Hall et al. (2010)

  142. 142.

    Kerr et al. (1998), Olausson (2009), Irwin (2001), Nisbet and Kotcher (2009)

  143. 143.

    Ockwell et al. (2009)

  144. 144.

    Myers et al. (2012)

  145. 145.

    Akerlof et al. (2010), Nisbet et al. (2010a)

  146. 146.

    Kreps and Maibach (2008), Maibach et al. (2008), Abroms and Maibach (2008)

  147. 147.

    Nisbet (2009), Ho et al. (2008)

  148. 148.

    O’Neill and Nicholson-Cole (2009), Lowe et al. (2006), Höijer (2010)

  149. 149.

    Nisbet et al. (2010b)

  150. 150.

    Pielke et al. (2007), Ruhl (2010)

  151. 151.

    Victor et al. (2012)

  152. 152.

    Carrico et al. (2014)

  153. 153.

    Bratt (1999), Thøgersen (1999), Tiefenbeck et al. (2013), Truelove et al. (2015)

  154. 154.

    Zhong et al. (2009)

  155. 155.

    Weber (1997)

  156. 156.

    Weber (1997, 2006)

  157. 157.

    Carrico et al. (2014)

  158. 158.

    Chilvers et al. (2014)

  159. 159.

    Moser (2014)

  160. 160.

    Lawrence (2009)

  161. 161.

    Fried (2000)

  162. 162.

    Agyeman et al. (2009)

  163. 163.

    van der Werff et al. (2013)

  164. 164.

    Wolf et al. (2013)

  165. 165.

    Burley et al. (2007)

  166. 166.

    Moser (2014)

  167. 167.

    Whitmarsh (2008)

  168. 168.

    Schweizer et al. (2013)

  169. 169.

    Carbaugh and Cerulli (2013)

  170. 170.

    Moser (2013)

  171. 171.

    Ogalleh et al. (2012)

  172. 172.

    Moser (2013)

  173. 173.

    Harvatt et al. (2011)

  174. 174.

    Bray and Martinez (2011)

  175. 175.

    Moser (2014)

  176. 176.

    Moser (2014)

  177. 177.

    DARA (2012)

  178. 178.

    Moser (2014)

  179. 179.

    Wynne (1993), Yankelovich (2003)

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