Resources for Environmental Communicators
Effective approaches for public engagement between science, technology and society are of growing interest to many scientists and science communicators. Accordingly, the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER) program and the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology are happy to announce the release of Scientists in Civic Life: Facilitating Dialogue Based Communication. This free booklet...
This report summarises and synthesises key trends, themes and findings in the field of science communication, with a particular focus on evidence from environmental and sustainability sciences. The report pays equal attention to the study of communicating scientific evidence, and the socio-political context in which science communication research is funded and science communication practice takes place. It maps existing research...
The European Perceptions of Climate Change project (EPCC) provides insights into public attitudes towards climate change and energy transitions across France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom. In an initial report, the project detailed the socio-political context relevant to understanding perceptions of climate change in each of these nations. A second report summarises the key findings from an international representative...
As several decades of awareness-raising and initiatives to engage the public have shown, climate change doesn’t communicate itself. A burgeoning evidence base on the social science of climate change communication now provides many explanations for why engaging on climate change can be challenging. Climate science is filled with uncertainties, a notorious stumbling block for communicating with non-scientists. For some, the...
This handbook provides a brief history of the consensus on climate change. We’ll summarize the research quantifying the level of scientific agreement on human-caused global warming. We’ll examine what the public thinks about the consensus, and the misinformation campaigns that have sought to confuse people. We’ll look at how we should respond to misinformation and how best to communicate the...
Last year, Climate Tracker produced toolkits to help journalists, writers, and other communicators write about climate change and publish it in media. But, we couldn’t help ask ourselves: what makes climate change communication effective? How do we deal with climate skeptics? And how can we communicate climate science clearly? We decided to come up with a new toolkit to try...
On October 26–27, 2015, a meeting was held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science headquarters in Washington, DC to discuss the state of research into public attitudes and behavior about climate change. Participants included social science researchers who study public opinion and behavior about climate change (researchers) and those who fund, design, and execute public engagement, informal...
If you have ever struggled with the communication of uncertainty, then this handbook is for you. It distills the most important research findings and expert advice into a few pages of practical, easy- to-apply techniques providing scientists, policy-makers and campaigners with the tools they need to communicate more effectively around climate change…. This handbook offers some strategies for closing the...
In this discussion document, produced to provoke feedback ahead of a final report later this year, we argue that climate change is best understood as a challenge with seven dimensions: In Science we need a new social contract between scientists and society; moving away from a hands off view of just giving the facts towards deeper engagement with communication and policy. With Behaviour we need to...
The purpose of this communications guidebook is to help local governments communicate about weather and climate extremes in the context of climate change. This guidebook will help mainstream climate preparedness into local government planning processes, and/ or build support for any existing climate preparedness efforts that have been already undertaken by local governments.
Looking for some professional development? Consider the IECA's online course Environmental Communication: Research Into Practice, beginning every January and September.
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