Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication. As climate change has moved further up the political agenda, the challenge of how to communicate the scientific, social, and political aspects of the climate emergency is of increasing interest to researchers, NGOs, governments, and policymakers at national and international levels. The Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication provides a concise and expert summary of this growing field, explaining the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years and describing the origins and connections to broader topics, including risk perception; environmental journalism; social media; and climate justice and activism. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is divided into seven key parts, besides the Introduction chapter:

Part One: Conceptual Challenges

Part Two: Methodological Considerations

Part Three: Communicating Climate Science across Cultures

Part Four: Journalism and News Reportage

Part Five: Activism and Social Movements

Part Six: Audiences and Popular Culture

Part Seven: Future Directions

Taking stock of the current landscape of climate change communication and helping to shape the field of inquiry going forward, this is a go-to guide for established and newly interested researchers, government and policymaking bodies, and students and their instructors.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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.