scholarly journals Media and Climate Change in Pakistan: Perception of the Journalists in mainstream Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
Arshad Ali ◽  
Sajid Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Human Skill

Climate change is high matter of concern for every life being on this planet earth. This research paper explores the perception of Pakistani journalists related media and climate coverage issues in Pakistan. The results of this paper are based on ten qualitative interviews of the journalists purposively selected form mainstream media in Pakistan covering climate issues. The journalists were of the opinion that lack of resources, old equipment, and poor human skill result in faulty measurements and information which leads to drawbacks in reporting authentic climate change. But fortunately, the actors associated with climate journalism are very well aware of their responsibilities and role.

scholarly journals Media and Climate Change in Pakistan: Perception of the Journalists in Mainstream Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Sajid Manzoor ◽  
Arshad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Human Skill ◽  
Living Being

Climate change is a high matter of concern for every living being on this planet earth. This research paper explores the perception of Pakistani journalists related to media and climate coverage issues in Pakistan. The results of this paper are based on ten qualitative interviews of the journalists purposively selected from mainstream media in Pakistan covering climate issues. The journalists were of the opinion that lack of resources, old equipment, and poor human skill result in faulty measurements and information which leads to drawbacks in reporting authentic climate change. But fortunately, the actors associated with climate journalism are very well aware of their responsibilities and role.

Conflicts in adaptation: case studies from Nepal and the Maldives

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phu Doma Lama ◽  
Per Becker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Adaptation appears to be regarded as a panacea in policy circles to reduce the risk of impending crises resulting from contemporary changes, including but not restricted to climate change. Such conceptions can be problematic, generally assuming adaptation as an entirely positive and non-conflictual process. The purpose of this paper is to challenge such uncritical views, drawing attention to the conflictual nature of adaptation, and propose a theoretical framework facilitating the identification and analysis of conflicts in adaptation. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on case study research using first-hand narratives of adaptation in Nepal and the Maldives collected using qualitative interviews, participant observation and document analysis. Findings The findings identify conflicts between actors in, and around, communities that are adapting to changes. These conflicts can be categorized along three dimensions: qualitative differences in the type of conflict, the relative position of conflicting actors and the degree of manifestation of the conflict. Originality/value The three-dimensional Adaptation Conflict Framework facilitate analysis of conflicts in adaptation, allowing for a critical examination of subjectivities inherent in the adaptation discourses embedded in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation research and policy. Such an inquiry is crucial for interventions supporting community adaptation to reduce disaster risk.

scholarly journals Urban climate change, livelihood vulnerability and narratives of generational responsibility in Jinja, Uganda

Africa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie McQuaid ◽  
Robert M. Vanderbeck ◽  
Gill Valentine ◽  
Chen Liu ◽  
Lily Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
Present Generation

AbstractThere is an urgent need to understand lived experiences of climate change in the context of African cities, where even small climate shocks can have significant implications for the livelihoods of the urban poor. This article examines narratives of climate and livelihood changes within Jinja Municipality, Uganda, emphasizing how Jinja's residents make sense of climate change through their own narrative frames rather than through the lens of global climate change discourses. We demonstrate how the onset of climate change in Jinja is widely attributed to perceived moral and environmental failings on the part of a present generation that is viewed as both more destructive than previous generations and unable to preserve land, trees and other resources for future generations. A focus on local ontologies of climate change highlights how the multiple, intersecting vulnerabilities of contemporary urban life in Jinja serve to obfuscate not only the conditions of possibility of an immediate future, but the longer-term horizons for future generations, as changing weather patterns exacerbate existing challenges people face in adapting to wider socio-economic changes and rising livelihood vulnerability. This form of analysis situates changing climate and environments within the context of everyday urban struggles and emphasizes the need for civic participation in developing climate change strategies that avoid the pitfalls of climate reductionism. The article draws on more than 150 qualitative interviews, generational dialogue groups, and creative methods based on research-led community theatre.

Linguistic Analysis in Climate Change Communication

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjersti Fløttum
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Physical Phenomenon ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
Communication Challenge

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. One reason is that, in recent years, it has moved from being a predominantly physical phenomenon to being simultaneously a political, social, and cultural phenomenon—and thus, a communication challenge. Current research shows that the meaning people ascribe to climate change is closely related to how it is portrayed during communication. Language plays a crucial role in this. Language not only reflects and expresses facts and observations but also influences attitudes and behavior. It helps to represent the reality but can also create new realities. In addition, the climate change debate is particularly multi-voiced, including both explicit and implicit or hidden voices representing different actors and interests. In order to know more about to what extent and in what way language matters, various linguistic and textual studies are undertaken: studies of words, of combinations of words, and of entire texts taken from different contexts, such as scientific reports, political documents, mainstream media, and new social media. Knowledge from linguistic and textual studies contributes to an improved knowledge base for societal and political actions to be undertaken in order to avoid dangerous consequences of climate change.

Sparking a Movement for a Healthy Climate Through Leadership Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Kerr ◽  
Julia Frost Nerbonne ◽  
Teddie Potter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Change Leadership ◽  
Leadership Development Programs ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
The Impact

Climate change is increasingly impacting health, and health care is contributing to climate change through carbon emissions. Nurses can help mitigate climate change and its effects through leadership development initiatives to expand the impact of the efforts of a single person by activating others. This article describes one such nurse-led leadership development project. The intervention adapted a workshop series curriculum for faith community audiences to a health professional audience. The program gave participants the ability to assess their assets, understand the psychology of communication of climate change, and design appropriately-scaled actions to help mitigate climate change. The program consisted of three in-person workshop sessions plus bi-weekly individual consultations with participants. The seven participants included physicians, nurses, physician and nurse educators, a public health professional, and a veterinary medicine student. The workshops included content on communicating about climate change, crafting a public narrative/storytelling, and tools and methods for organizing in the climate movement. Participants completed action plans including a broad range of leadership efforts as part of the intervention; all participants completed at least the first step of their action plan during the program period. Qualitative interviews highlighted facets of participants' experiences. Nurses and other health professionals are leading the way in mitigating climate change; leadership development programs such as this are one way of taking effective climate action.

scholarly journals Black coal, thin ice: the discursive legitimisation of Australian coal in the age of climate change

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Stutzer ◽  
Adrian Rinscheid ◽  
Thiago D. Oliveira ◽  
Pedro Mendes Loureiro ◽  
Aya Kachi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Australian Coal ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

AbstractDespite mounting urgency to mitigate climate change, new coal mines have recently been approved in various countries, including in Southeast Asia and Australia. Adani’s Carmichael coal mine project in the Galilee Basin, Queensland (Australia), was approved in June 2019 after 9 years of political contestation. Counteracting global efforts to decarbonise energy systems, this mine will substantially increase Australia’s per capita CO2 emissions, which are already among the highest in the world. Australia’s deepening carbon lock-in can be attributed to the essential economic role played by the coal industry, which gives it structural power to dominate political dynamics. Furthermore, tenacious networks among the traditional mass media, mining companies, and their shareholders have reinforced the politico-economic influence of the industry, allowing the mass media to provide a venue for the industry’s outside lobbying strategies as well as ample backing for its discursive legitimisation with pro-coal narratives. To investigate the enduring symbiosis between the coal industry, business interests, the Australian state, and mainstream media, we draw on natural language processing techniques and systematically study discourses about the coal mine in traditional and social media between 2017 and 2020. Our results indicate that while the mine’s approval was aided by the pro-coal narratives of Queensland’s main daily newspaper, the Courier-Mail, collective public sentiment on Twitter has diverged significantly from the newspaper’s stance. The rationale for the mine’s approval, notwithstanding increasing public contestation, lies in the enduring symbiosis between the traditional economic actors and the state; and yet, our results highlight a potential corner of the discursive battlefield favourable for hosting more diverse arguments.

scholarly journals Science, Twitter and election campaigns: tracking #auspol in the Australian federal elections

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (06) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merryn McKinnon ◽  
David Semmens ◽  
Brenda Moon ◽  
Inoka Amarasekara ◽  
Léa Bolliet
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Public Sentiment ◽  
Online Conversation ◽  
Change Mitigation

Social media is increasingly being used by science communicators, journalists and government agencies to engage in discourse with a range of publics. Despite a growing body of literature on Twitter use, the communication of science via Twitter is comparatively under explored. This paper examines the prominence of scientific issues in political debate occurring on Twitter during the 2013 and 2016 Australian federal election campaigns. Hashtracking of the umbrella political hashtag auspol was used to capture tweets during the two campaign periods. The 2013 campaign was particularly relevant as a major issue for both parties was climate change mitigation, a controversial and partisan issue. Therefore, climate change discussion on Twitter during the 2013 election was used as a focal case study in this research. Subsamples of the 2013 data were used to identify public sentiment and major contributors to the online conversation, specifically seeking to see if scientific, governmental, media or ‘public' sources were the more dominant instigators. We compare the prominence of issues on Twitter to mainstream media polls over the two campaign periods and argue that the potential of Twitter as an effective public engagement tool for science, and for politicised scientific issues in particular, is not being realised.

scholarly journals Urban tourism and climate change: Risk perceptions of business tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa

Urbani izziv ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol Supplement (30) ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayde R. Pandy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Current State ◽  
Climate Change Responses ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives

The nexus of climate change and cities is acknowledged as of growing importance for inter-disciplinary research. In this article the focus is upon the perceptions of climate change and responses by tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa’s leading city and major tourism destination. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews with 30 tourism stakeholders an analysis is undertaken of the risk perceptions of climate change. Overall the results suggest a major disconnect between the climate change threats as openly recognised by Johannesburg city authorities and of the risk perceptions as revealed by local tourism stakeholders. The predominant view articulated by tourism industry stakeholders is that climate change responses and associated sustainability initiatives are something of a ‘nice to have’ rather than a necessity given current the current state of awareness and of climate change risk perceptions by businesses.

scholarly journals Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost – Responses of Fishers’ Communities to Shifts in the Distribution and Abundance of Fish

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva A. Papaioannou ◽  
Rebecca L. Selden ◽  
Julia Olson ◽  
Bonnie J. McCay ◽  
Malin L. Pinsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Target Species ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Recent Warming ◽  
As Species ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Silver Hake ◽  
Catch Composition

As species respond to warming water temperatures, fishers dependent upon such species are being compelled to make choices concerning harvest strategies. Should they “follow fish” to new fishing grounds? Should they change their mix of target species? Should they relocate their operations to new ports? We examined how fishing communities in the Northeast United States —a hotspot of recent warming—have already responded to documented shifts in the distribution and abundance of fluke, red and silver hake. We focused on groundfish trawl communities that historically targeted these species and examined their “at-sea” responses by combining qualitative interviews with quantitative analysis of fishing records and ecological surveys. Three distinct responses emerged: shifting fishing grounds, shifting target species, and shifting port of landing. Our research finds that following the fish is rare and only occurred in one of the assessed communities, the large trawler community of Beaufort, North Carolina. The more common response was a shift in target species and a change in catch composition. However, regulations and markets often constrained the ability to take advantage of a changing mix of species within fishing grounds. Indeed, the overall species diversity in catch has declined among all of our focal communities suggesting that communities have lost the ability to be flexible when it may be most needed as a response to climate change. Additionally, the high value of fluke and the need to land in southern states with higher quota allocations is likely a driver of the changing nature of “community” with increasing vessels landing outside their home port, especially when landing fluke. Our findings suggest that fidelity to historical fishing grounds combined with perceiving environmental change as non-permanent, predispose many fishers to trust in “cyclicality” and return of species over time. However, this strategy may make those communities unable or unwilling to “follow fish” more vulnerable to changes in distribution and abundance due to climate change. Our findings have the potential to directly inform resource management policies as well as more deliberate adaptations by communities themselves as they strive to address the imminent risks of climate change.

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