Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication.

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.

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Alison Anderson and Candice Howarth Part one: Conceptual Challenges Chapter 1: Framing in Climate Crisis Communication: An Overview of Research across Frame Production, Media Frames, Audience Frames, and Framing Effects Lars Guenther and Daniela Mahl Chapter 2: Climate change as a post-political issue Pieter Maeseele Chapter 3: Deliberation and Democratic Innovations in the Climate Crisis Andy Yuille and Rebecca Willis Chapter 4: Multi-level Miscommunication: on fragmented communications and mismatched framings of climate crisis in multi-level governance Erica Russell and Ian Christie Chapter 5: Talk about it: The role of private-sphere conversations in ecological crisis communication Marlis Wullenkord and Maria Johansson Part Two: Methodological Considerations Chapter 6: Narrative Analysis: The Ideological Dimensions of Climate Discourse Shondel Nero and Raul Lejano Chapter 7: Approaches to Climate Change Visual Research: Methods, Audiences, Practices Christopher Rogers Chapter 8: Co-production approaches in climate communication Alessandra Palange Chapter 9: Discourse analysis in climate communication Chris Russill and Ghadah Alrasheed Chapter 10: Online Research Methods: Designing Studies of Digital Climate Communications Jill Hopke Part Three: Communicating Climate Science across Cultures Chapter 11: Transnational Climate Justice: Anti-Authoritarian Climate Movements and Digital Media in a (post-)Pandemic World Hanna Morris Chapter 12: Climate justice in the media: The representation of indigenous communities and climate migrant/refugees Gabriela Galindo Chapter 13: Climate change crisis communication in Asia: State of the research field and case studies from India, Indonesia, and Malaysia Raksha Pandya-Wood, Lucy Richardson, Azliyana Azhari and Jagdish Thaker Chapter 14: Exploring The Multi-Layered Landscape of Climate Change Communication in East Asia: A Social Process Perspective Jingyuan Wu Chapter 15: Climate Change Communication Research: A Latin American Perspective Bruno Takahashi, Iasmim Amiden dos Santos, Maria Fernanda Salas and Carolina Gil Posse Part Four: Journalism and News Reportage Chapter 16: Climate Change in the Legacy and Online News Media: Reviewing Scholarly Literature on Production, Presentation & Consumption Mike S. Schäfer and Daniela Mahl Chapter 17: Voices from the Front-lines of environmental crisis: reporting climate and environment from the Global South Gabi Mocatta, Nicholas Payne, Shaneka Saville and Kristy Hess Chapter 18: Climate change communication: Reflections on discursive and performative affordances of social media networks Anoop Kumar and M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef Chapter 19: Conspiracies as one of the dangers of online climate change communication: Origins, spread and impact Marianna Poberezhskaya Chapter 20: Climate crisis and an injunction to care: Exploring women's reportage on disasters in Australia Deb Anderson and Nicolette Snowden Part Five: Activism and Social Movements Chapter 21: Digital activism and transnational movements: Climate change protest in the digital age Susan Forde Chapter 22: Climate Movement Message Construction - A Three-pronged Challenge of Collective Identity, Actions, and Words Sol Agin Chapter 23: Youth activism and the call for generational responsibility in climate politics Tânia R. Santos, Daniela Ferreira da Silva and Anabela Carvalho Chapter 24: Climate Justice Pedagogy: Integrating Science, Activism and Care Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, Anne Marie Todd, Costanza Rampini and Eugene C. Cordero Chapter 25: The challenge of being 'trusted messengers' on climate change: Practical strategies for more effective climate change teaching in higher education Olivia Taylor and Melissa Lazenby Part Six: Audiences and Popular Culture Chapter 26: The Walk, the Talk, and the Misdirection: Digitalisation and the Deflection of Climate Crisis in US and UK Screen Culture Hunter Vaughan Chapter 27: Influencer or Opinion leader? Different approaches to defining and identifying environmentally conscious individuals on social media Yuliya Samofalova Chapter 28: Promoting veganism: The cultural role of celebrities and influencers in the reframing of meat and dairy as a climate issue Julie Doyle Chapter 29: Good Natured Climate Comedy to the Rescue Beth Osnes and Max Boykoff Chapter 30: Communicating Climate Change on Tik Tok Brigitte Huber Part Seven: Future Directions Chapter 31: Sustainable journalism in a crisis: taking agency and authorship Casey Fung and Franzisca Weder Chapter 32: Sense-making: How interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate change Declan Fahy Chapter 33: Where Next for Carbon Literacy? Tackling Climate Misinformation and Addressing Climate (In)Justice Brenda McNally Index