scholarly journals A Direction and Principles for the Reshaping the Government's Climate Change Communications and Engagement Strategy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alex Hannant
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
The Self ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Research Outcome ◽  
Recent Trends

<p>Climate change is a global challenge that requires immediate individual and collective action. The self-evident fact that information alone is unable to motivate action suggests that effective communications and engagement will be critical in stimulating the required response. This research project explores how strategic thinking can be employed to support the New Zealand Government's climate change communication and engagement objectives. Strategic thinking is the active and deliberate pursuit of synthesising evidence with a creative anticipation of what might be possible. Rather than work within parameters set by precedent and convention, it represents the deliberate intent to question, disrupt and design new courses of action. This research explores the inertia in mainstream attitudes and behaviours towards climate change; relevant communications and social science best practice and theory; recent trends in New Zealand; and views and opinions from a diverse range of experts. The research outcome is a set of interconnected and interdependent principles that serve to inform and lead the development of a national climate change communications and engagement strategy.</p>

scholarly journals A Direction and Principles for the Reshaping the Government's Climate Change Communications and Engagement Strategy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alex Hannant
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
The Self ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Research Outcome ◽  
Recent Trends

<p>Climate change is a global challenge that requires immediate individual and collective action. The self-evident fact that information alone is unable to motivate action suggests that effective communications and engagement will be critical in stimulating the required response. This research project explores how strategic thinking can be employed to support the New Zealand Government's climate change communication and engagement objectives. Strategic thinking is the active and deliberate pursuit of synthesising evidence with a creative anticipation of what might be possible. Rather than work within parameters set by precedent and convention, it represents the deliberate intent to question, disrupt and design new courses of action. This research explores the inertia in mainstream attitudes and behaviours towards climate change; relevant communications and social science best practice and theory; recent trends in New Zealand; and views and opinions from a diverse range of experts. The research outcome is a set of interconnected and interdependent principles that serve to inform and lead the development of a national climate change communications and engagement strategy.</p>

Climate Change Communication in New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhian Salmon ◽  
Rebecca Priestley ◽  
Michele Fontana ◽  
Taciano L. Milfont
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Climate Change Communication ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Art Community ◽  
Media Reports

Climate change communication in Aotearoa New Zealand occurs through multiple channels, including public communication by experts; formal and informal science-policy dialogues; and publication of popular books, documentaries, and media reports. There is, in addition, a wide array of climate change communication activities that are less well documented, such as those that utilize the education system, social media, art, community events and festivals, and co-production processes related to adaptation and mitigation choices. Although research into the communication of climate change is in its infancy in the country, data on public attitudes toward climate change over the past decade indicate that most New Zealanders believe climate change is occurring, is anthropogenic, and is a serious concern. This is mirrored by research into media coverage on climate change, which shows that mainstream news reports are largely consistent with the scientific consensus and reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and do not give much coverage to skeptical or catastrophic viewpoints.

scholarly journals Biomimetic Self-Healing Cementitious Construction Materials for Smart Buildings

Biomimetics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Kwok Wei Shah ◽  
Ghasan Fahim Huseien
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Concentration ◽  
Repair Process ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
The Self ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Recent Trends

Climate change is anticipated to have a major impact on concrete structures through increasing rates of deterioration as well the impacts of extreme weather events. The deterioration can affect directly or indirectly climate change in addition to the variation in the carbon dioxide concentration, temperature and relative humidity. The deterioration that occurs from the very beginning of the service not only reduces the lifespan of the concretes but also demands more cement to maintain the durability. Meanwhile, the repair process of damaged parts is highly labor intensive and expensive. Thus, the self-healing of such damages is essential for the environmental safety and energy cost saving. The design and production of the self-healing as well as sustainable concretes are intensely researched within the construction industries. Based on these factors, this article provides the materials and methods required for a comprehensive assessment of self-healing concretes. Past developments, recent trends, environmental impacts, sustainability, merits and demerits of several methods for the production of self-healing concrete are discussed and analyzed.

scholarly journals Barriers to climate change adaption in the Australian property industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 449-462
Author(s):  
Georgia Warren-Myers ◽  
Anna Hurlimann ◽  
Judy Bush
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Climate Change Information ◽  
Nationally Representative

PurposeTo identify barriers to climate change adaptation in the Australian property industry.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews with twenty-four stakeholders from a diverse cross-section of the Australian property industry were undertaken in 2018 and 2019.FindingsA range of barriers to action on climate change were identified. These barriers centre around (1) information: lack of clear, reliable, and trusted sources of climate change information; (2) cost: competing economic demands, and the perceived threat that investing in climate change action poses to competitiveness; and (3) regulation: the inaction of governments thus failing to provide a regulatory environment to address climate change.Research limitations/implicationsThe qualitative research provides perspectives from actors in different sectors of the Australian property industry. While it provides an in-depth understanding of the barriers to addressing climate change adaptation, it is not necessarily a nationally representative sample.Practical implicationsThe study identifies barriers to climate change adaptation, and establishes practical ways in which the Australian property industry can address these barriers and the role that government regulation could have in generating industry-wide change.Social implicationsClimate change poses significant challenges to society. Built environments are significant contributors to climate change, and thus the property industry is well-placed to make positive contributions to this global challenge.Originality/valueLimited research has examined barriers to climate change action in the property industry. This research provides novel insights from the perspective of key actors across a diverse range of property industry sectors. This new knowledge fills an important gap in understanding how to address climate change in Australia and broader contexts.

scholarly journals Visual climate change communication: key points for public engagement 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosmarie de Wit ◽  
Annemarie Lexer ◽  
Matthias Themessl ◽  
Andrea Prutsch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Climate Change Communication ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Best Practice Guidelines ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8216;A picture is worth a thousand words&amp;#8217; and &amp;#8216;seeing is believing&amp;#8217;. Clearly, images are considered to be incredibly powerful communication tools. The project &amp;#8218;Images of Change&amp;#8217;, which is funded by the Austrian Climate Research Program, wants to harness the power of visuals in climate change communication. To do so, the project focusses at developing different visual communication formats aimed at young adults, with the goal to support a better understanding of facts and invite climate friendly behavior as well as policy acceptance. In order to hit the ground running, existing (visual) climate change communication formats of different national meteorological and environmental organizations, academia, the media as well as non- governmental organizations (NGOs) were collected, analyzed and compared to best practices as reported in climate communication research. Here, we will present an overview of the key findings from psychological as well as communication research on how to successfully communicate the causes, impacts and solutions of climate change to non-scientists. Specifics on how to engage young adults as well as how to implement visuals in climate change communication in order to achieve the highest impact and increase the motivation to act in a climate friendly manner will also be highlighted. Finally, a selection of existing visual communication campaigns will be presented and discussed. Based on these formats, we will take a deeper look into how the best practice guidelines postulated by the communication science community may be implemented in our own work as climate communicators in academia as well as national weather services.&lt;/p&gt;

Engaging with Climate Change Imagery

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saffron O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Polar Bear ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Climate Change Communication ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Best Practice Guidelines ◽  
Communication Devices ◽  
Energy Emissions

Images are a key part of the climate change communication process. The diverse and interdisciplinary literature on how people engage with visual representations of climate change is reviewed. Images hold particular power for engaging people, as they hold three qualities that differ from other communication devices (such as words or text): they are analogical, they lack an explicit propositional syntax, and they are indexical. These qualities are explored in relation to climate change imagery. A number of visual tropes common to climate change communication (identifiable people; climate change impacts; energy, emissions and pollution; protest; scientific imagery) are examined and the evidence for each of these visual tropes in terms of how they engage particular audiences is reviewed. Two case studies, of polar bear imagery and the “hockey stick” graph image, critically examine iconic imagery associated with climate change, and how and why these types of images may (dis)engage audiences. Six best-practice guidelines for visual climate change communication are presented and three areas for further research in this nascent field are suggested.

scholarly journals How can New Zealand schools respond to climate change?

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-39
Author(s):  
Rachel Bolstad
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Climate Agreements ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
International Climate Agreements ◽  
School Network ◽  
International Climate

International climate agreements say education can play a key role in responding to the global challenge of climate change. My team and I are currently carrying out research to help build a national picture of educational responses to climate change. Our research suggests that New Zealand’s educational policies and strategies currently provide a diffuse framework for responding to climate change, and there is a lack of coherent messaging “from the top” about what could or should be expected of schools. Yet some innovative practices and approaches are visible across the school network. This article describes what we currently know about climate and sustainability thinking and practice across English-medium schools, and what further actions and supports may be needed across the system.

Australian and New Zealand Biosolids Partnership: Collaboration for more effective biosolids management

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Speers ◽  
Allen Gale ◽  
Nancy Penney
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Community Consultation ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Community Attitudes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sustainability Framework

This paper describes an international biosolids management initiative, known as the Australian and New Zealand Biosolids Partnership (ANZBP). The ANZBP - known formerly as the Australasian Biosolids Partnership – comprises 33 members dedicated to promoting the sustainable management of biosolids across the two nations. Two critical research projects are described, each of which contributes to the ANZBP goal of promoting the sustainable management of biosolids. The first is a review of community attitudes to biosolids management, the outcomes of which will be used to refine communication tools and methods of community consultation and which will provide input to policy development over time. The second is a review of regulations in place in Australia and New Zealand carried out to identify inconsistencies and improvements that could be made. An outcome of this initiative is potentially the development of a best practice manual. The relationship of the two projects to a sustainability framework adopted by the ANZBP is also described, as is the relationship of the two projects to each other.

ON REGIONAL MODEL SIMULATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE OVER NEW ZEALAND

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renwick ◽  
Katzfey ◽  
McGregor ◽  
Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Regional Model ◽  
Model Simulations
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