Communicating climate change : making environmental messaging accessible / edited by Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf and Burton St. John III.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the challenges of communicating about climate change in the modern era / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf and Burton St. John III -- Part 1. Communicating with the public -- Asking questions for adaptation: using public and stakeholder surveys as a tool within coastal climate change policy processes / Karen L. Akerlof, Kristin Timm, Syma A. Ebbin, Jill M. Gambill, Phyllis M. Grifman, Tancred Miller, and Susanne Moser -- Engaging residents in policy and planning for sea level rise: application of the action-oriented stakeholder engagement for a resilient tomorrow (ASERT) framework / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, J. Gail Nicula, Daniel P. Richards, Ogechukwu Agim, Michelle Covi, and Khairul A. Anuar -- Communicating within immersion and presence: the use of 360-degree-video to make climate change touchable / Andreas Hebbel-Seeger, Christian Rudeloff, Riccardo Wagner, and Sebastian Pranz -- Part 2. Communicating for stakeholder engagement -- Communicating and co-producing information with stakeholders: examples of participatory mapping approaches related to sea level rise risks and impacts / Pragati Rawat, Khairul A. Anuar, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Jon Derek Loftis, and Ren-Neasha Blake -- Social media and climate change dialogue: a review of the research and guidance for science communicators / Brooke Fisher Liu and Jiyoun Kim -- Key elements of user preferences for flood alerts and implications for the design and development of flood alert or warning systems / Donta Council, Tihara Richardson, and Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf -- Part 3. Organizational, institutional, risk and disaster communication -- The standing rock water protests against Dakota Access Pipeline: addressing environmental degradation through indigenous political ecology as the "trickster science" / Danielle Quichocho and Burton St. John III -- Risk communication in the tourism industry / Lindsay E. Usher and Ashley Schroeder -- Risk management and biases in how drivers respond to nuisance flooding / Saige Hill, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Burton St. John III, Pragati Rawat, and Carol Considine -- Rethinking disaster communication ecology: exploring context in isolated communities in the Philippines / Dennis John F. Sumaylo and Marianne D. Sison -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Toward accessible messaging and effective climate change communication / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf and Burton St. John III

"This edited collection focuses on theoretical and applied observations about how experts, advocates, and institutions make climate change information accessible to different audiences. Communicating about Climate Change concentrates on three key elements of climate change communication - access, relevance, and understandability - to provide an understanding of how these elements allow multiple groups of stakeholders to act on the information to build resilience. Featuring contributions from a wide range of scholars from across different disciplines, the book explores a multitude of different scenarios and communication methods, including social media; public opinion surveys; participatory mapping; and video. Overall, climate change communication is addressed from four different perspectives: communicating with the public and for public policy; communication for stakeholder engagement; organizational, institutional, and risk communication; and crisis and emergency communication. With each chapter focussing on implications and applications for practice, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of climate change and environmental communication, as well as practitioners interested in understanding how to communicate climate change and related issues to better engage stakeholders"--