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- Ballantyne, Anne Gammelgaard, 1981-, et al.
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Localizing Climate Change : Nordic Homeowners' Interpretations of Visual Representations for Climate Adaptation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; :5, s. 638-652
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, effort has been put into developing various forms of climate visualization to create opportunities for people to explore and learn about local climate change risks and adaptation options. However, how target audiences make sense of such climate visualization has rarely been studied from a communication perspective. This paper analyses how Nordic homeowners made sense of a specific climate visualization tool, the VisAdapt™ tool. Involving 35 homeowners from three cities in 15 group test sessions, this study analyses the interpretive strategies participants applied to make sense of and assess the relevance of the visualized data. The study demonstrates that participants employed a set of interpretive strategies relating to personal experience and well-known places to make sense of the information presented, and that critical negotiation of content played an important role in how participants interpreted the content.
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- Ballantyne, Anne Gammelgaard, 1981-
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Climate change communication: what can we learn from communication theory?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1757-7780 .- 1757-7799. ; 7:3, s. 329-344
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The literature on climate change communication addresses a range of issues relevantto the communication of climate change and climate science to lay audiencesor publics. In doing so, it approaches this particular challenge from avariety of different perspectives and theoretical frameworks. Analyzing the bodyof scholarly literature on climate change communication, this article criticallyreviews how communication is conceptualized in the literature and concludesthat the fi eld of climate change communication is characterized by diverging andincompatible understandings of communication as a theoretical construct. Insome instances, communication theory appears reduced to an ‘ad hoc’ toolbox,from which theories are randomly picked to provide studies with a fi tting framework.Inspired by the paradigm shift from transmission to interaction withincommunication theory, potential lessons from the fi eld of communication theoryare highlighted and discussed in the context of communicating climate change.Rooted in the interaction paradigm, the article proposes a meta-theoreticalframework that conceptualizes communication as a constitutive process of producingand reproducing shared meanings. Rather than operating in separateontological and epistemological perspectives, a meta-theoretical conceptualizationof communication would ensure a common platform that advances multiperspectiveargumentation and discussion of the role of climate changecommunication in society.
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- Ballantyne, Anne Gammelgaard, 1981-
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Exploring the Role of Visualization in Climate Change Communication – an Audience Perspective
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Climate change communication is a topical and relevant issue, and it is widely acknowledged that public communication about causes, impacts and action alternatives is integral to addressing the challenges of the changing climate. Climate visualization concerns the communication of climate information and data through the use of different information technologies and different modes of visual representation. In the context of climate change communication, climate visualization is highlighted as a potential way of increasing public engagement with climate change. In particular, developments within information technology have provided significant advancements that are claimed to be transformative in engaging lay audiences with issues relating to the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Nevertheless, there is a lack of research exploring climate visualization from an audience perspective. This thesis addresses this gap. The overarching aim is thus to explore the role of climate visualization in climate change communication from an audience perspective, focusing specifically on how lay audiences make meaning of climate change as represented in two examples of climate visualization. In addition, the thesis discusses the potential contributions and/or limitations of climate visualization from a communication perspective.Based on a social semiotic theoretical framework, this thesis employs focus group interviews to study participants’ meaning-making related to two cases of climate visualization: a dome theatre movie developed for Swedish high school students with the aim of encouraging reflection on climate change causes, impacts and mitigation alternatives, and a web-based tool for climate change adaptation developed to assist Nordic homeowners in adapting to the local impacts of climate change.The results of this thesis show that climate visualization can help audiences concretize otherwise abstract aspects of climate change, and that the localized focus can make climate change appear more personally relevant and interesting for targeted audiences. Nevertheless, despite these communicative qualities, the analyses also show that participants’ interpretations are shaped by their preconceptions of climate change as a global and distant issue to be solved by other actors, such as national governments, or through international policy negotiations. Although climate visualization can enhance a sense of proximity with climate change, the localization of climate risk can also lead to participants downplaying the significance of climate impacts. In addition, despite the intentions of inducing a sense of agency in both cases of climate visualization, participants critically negotiated messages concerning their roles as individuals in mitigating or adapting to climate change, and assigned this responsibility onto other actors. These findings show that although climate visualization presents certain communicative qualities, it is not a panacea for engaging lay audiences with climate change. This also underlines the importance of considering cultural and social aspects of the communicative event when studying and developing climate visualization tools as a means of communication.
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- Dyer, Mark, et al.
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Awareness, Communication and Visualisation
- 2017
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Ingår i: GREEN DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY. - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands. - 9789401776004 - 9789401775984 ; , s. 269-286
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- When attempting to raise awareness about environmental issues, it is important to recognize that the role of the Armed Forces is directly informed by democratic mandate, geared to underpin stability, provide security, and undertake operational missions as required. It can be argued that part of that security and stability involves responding to threats presented by climate change by adopting a Triple Zero approach towards its own consumption of energy and water as well as generation of waste. However a top down technological strategy is unlikely to succeed. Instead there is a need for well-informed communication combined with participatory decision-making to develop trust and good faith to implement a Triple Zero approach to the environment. The tools and techniques available to embark on such a strategy are described in the following pages.
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- Glaas, Erik, 1981-, et al.
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Facilitating climate change adaptation through communication : Insights from the development of a visualization tool
- 2015
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Ingår i: Energy Research and Social Science. - : Elsevier. - 2214-6296. ; 10, s. 57-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change communication on anticipated impacts and adaptive responses is frequently presentedas an effective means to facilitate implementation of adaptation to mitigate risks to residential buildings.However, it requires that communication is developed in a way that resonates with the context of thetarget audience, provides intelligible information and addresses perceived barriers to adaptation. In thispaper we reflect upon criteria for useful climate change communication gained over a three year developmentprocess of a web-based tool – VisAdaptTM – aimed at increasing the adaptive capacity amongNordic homeowners. Based on the results from continuous user-testing and focus group interviews weoutline lessons learned and key aspects to consider in the design of tools for communicating complexissues such as climate change effects and adaptive response measures.
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- Glaas, Erik, 1981-, et al.
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Visualization for supporting individual climate change adaptation planning: Assessment of a web-based tool
- 2017
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Ingår i: Landscape and Urban Planning. - : Elsevier. - 0169-2046 .- 1872-6062. ; 158, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Homeowners are important actors in implementing climate change adaptation. However, individual socio-cognitive constraints related to risk perceptions and perceived capacity may hamper their action. Climate change visualization could help planning and management overcome such constraints by offering accessible information to increase individual adaptive capacity. Such visualization would require that information be perceived as legitimate and credible by emphasizing the diversity of impacts and alternative options, and simultaneously as salient by highlighting context-specific risks and measures. Based on focus group interviews and test sessions, we analysed how homeowners made sense of and discussed a specific interactive planning support tool – VisAdapt™ – integrating climate scenarios, local risk maps, and adaptation measures for various house types. The tool combines precise and general depictions in visualizing climate change to support adaptation among Nordic homeowners. Results reveal that the tool spurred reflection on concrete local risks and various adaptation actions. The tool was less successful in providing a framework for assessing the magnitude of anticipated changes, making these appear as generally small. Visualization aspects that are important for spurring reflection on adaptive action are specifying various climate parameters, relating climate impacts to established practices for managing weather risks, and emphasizing diverse concrete short- and long-term measures.
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