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Communicating climate change and energy security : new methods in understanding audiences / Greg Philo and Catherine Happer.

By:

Philo, Greg

Contributor(s):

Happer, Catherine

Material type: Text

TextOriginal language: English Publication details: USA : routledge, 2013Description: 172 pages : illustrations 24 cmISBN:

9780415835091 (hardback);0415835097 (hardback)

Subject(s):

Climatic changes;Communication in climatology.;Environmental policy;Energy policy;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.;POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. -- Social aspects.;Public opinion.;Public opinion

DDC classification:

363.738/74 GRC 2013

Summary: "This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and indeed carry global import"--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Library Section SB- R304	363.738/74 GRC 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P34212

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-165) and index.

"This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and indeed carry global import"--

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