"Even the most sophisticated forecasting models and advanced early warning systems can be rendered ineffective if the information is not communicated clearly, on time, and in a way that allows the end-user to consider options and act appropriately. These challenges not only apply to fast onset hazar
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ds such as cyclones and tsunamis, but also to slower onset hazards such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. Around the world, governments' responses to the current pandemic provide examples of how complex and difficult successful risk communication is. This paper discusses the importance of risk communication as a critical component of early warning systems and explores the constant challenges that vulnerable communities face, how early warning systems sit within the wider Sendai Framework, and what governments have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, and discusses how we can communicate more effectively in the future to reduce harm." (Abstract)
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"Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling cas
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e studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some common patterns of how people make sense of climate change. Global Warming in Local Discourses constitutes a significant, new contribution to understanding the multi-perspectivity of our debates on climate change, further highlighting the need for interdisciplinary study within this area." (Publisher description)
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"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose
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a direct threat to the sustainability of life on this planet. This edition of Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) seeks to understand the constructive role that technology can play in confronting the crises. It disrupts the normative understanding of technology being an easy panacea to the planet’s environmental challenges and suggests that a nuanced and contextual use of technology is necessary for real sustainability to be achieved. A series of thematic reports frame different aspects of the relationship between digital technology and environmental sustainability from a human rights and social justice perspective, while 46 country and regional reports explore the diverse frontiers where technology meets the needs of both the environment and communities and where technology itself becomes a challenge to a sustainable future." (Back cover)
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"Guided by the Framing Theory, this paper presents the final results of a content analysis performed on a group of news from three cases of environmental popular consultations in Colombia, aiming to find the main generic frames on them to understand how the debate was shaped within the Andean countr
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y during 2017. The context of those consultations was that they took place on the first year without armed confrontation, after the peace agreement was signed, with former FARC guerrilla and when the national debate shifted from the war itself to social justice issues. Results showed that all of the collected stories had, at least, three frames that were mainly human interest, focused on portraying the human side of actors involved; conflict, displaying the disagreement between pro and con sides as well as proclaiming winners and or losers; and attribution of responsibility, putting responsibility on actors and groups involved, and offering solutions such as relying on congress or the highest courts to fill the legal gap. These findings confirm that environmental conflicts constitute a new form of crisis in the post-conflict Colombia." (Abstract)
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"This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustain
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able development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and that it is a necessary iteration in thinking on development. This new strain of thought could inform not only the work of development practitioners, graduate students, and theorists working in the Global South, but in the Global North as well." (Publisher description)
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"Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das für die Rechte der Ärmsten, der ursprünglichen (autochthonen) Völker, der Geringsten kämpft, wo ihre Stimme gehört und ihre Würde gefördert wird. Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das seinen charakteristischen kulturellen Reichtum bewahrt, wo auf so unter
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schiedliche Weise die Schönheit der Menschheit erstrahlt. Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das die überwältigende Schönheit der Natur, die sein Schmuck ist, eifersüchtig hütet, das überbordende Leben, das seine Flüsse und Wälder erfüllt. Ich träume von christlichen Gemeinschaften, die in Amazonien sich dermaßen einzusetzen und Fleisch und Blut anzunehmen vermögen, dass sie der Kirche neue Gesichter mit amazonischen Zügen schenken." (Seite 7)
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"All human and social activity depends on communication. No matter the issue — poverty, conflict resolution, self-determination, migration, health, land, housing, the climate crisis — little can be done without effective communication. A framework is needed that enables, empowers, and transforms
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; that challenges power structures and sociocultural traditions to guarantee the public voices and genuine participation of everyone — especially poor, marginalized, excluded and dispossessed people and communities. Such a framework is offered by the concept and practice of communication rights. Since communication clearly underpins genuinely sustainable development and requires equitable access to information and knowledge, to information and communication technologies, as well as plurality and diversity in the media, this book identifies the missing UN Sustainable Development Goal 18: Communication for All, whose purpose is to expand and strengthen public civic spaces through equitable and affordable access to communication technologies and platforms, media pluralism, and media diversity." (Back cover)
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"Die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft steht in digitalen Gesellschaften vor zentralen Herausforderungen und einer wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung. In diesem Artikel werden zwei zentrale Konzepte vorgestellt, mit denen sich die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft zune
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hmend beschäftigen sollte, um den sozial-ökologischen Herausforderungen digitaler Gesellschaften zu begegnen: Nachhaltigkeit und das „gute Leben“. Diese beiden theoretischen Konzepte, so wird in diesem Beitrag argumentiert, bergen das Potenzial für die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, sich mit aktuellen sozial-ökologischen Herausforderungen digitaler Gesellschaften zu auseinanderzusetzen, diese zu analysieren sowie Lösungsansätze von Akteuren aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft (kritisch) zu betrachten." (Seite 7)
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"We hope you’ll come away from this report with a clearer understanding that conservation is a behavioral challenge and therefore needs behaviorally-informed solutions. Here is your starting point with the tools and tactics to employ in your efforts to preserve our natural resources for current an
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d future generations." (Foreword)
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"This book, based on authoritative sources and reports, links environmental communication to different fields of competence: environment, sustainability, journalism, mass media, architecture, design, art, green and circular economy, public administration, big event management and legal language. The
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manual offers a new, scientifically based perspective, and adopts a theoretical-practical approach, providing readers with qualified best practices, case studies and 22 exclusive interviews with professionals. A fluent style of writing leads the readers through specific details, enriching their knowledge without being boring." (Publisher description)
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"El camino de la Iglesia Católica en la Panamazonia lleva más de cuatro siglos. En una realidad territorial llena de desafíos y signos de esperanza, hay que reconocer las luces y sombras del proceso evangelizador, bien como los cambios que realizó en las últimas décadas para responder al grito
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de los pueblos y de la madre tierra. Los últimos seis años fueron cargados de signos que demuestran un kairós en esta Región: la fundación y el trabajo de la REPAM, que culminó en la realización del Sínodo Especial para la Amazonia, como un proceso de escucha de los pueblos amazónicos en diálogo con los pastores de la Iglesia Católica en la construcción de una “Iglesia con rostro amazónico” y para una Ecología Integral." (Resumen)
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"Climate and Sustainability Communication builds upon traditional approaches to understanding the role of mass media in shaping social issues by amplifying diverse perspectives of opinion leaders, as well as voices of those affected by climate and sustainability issues. From South Korea and China, t
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o the United States and Zambia, the studies reported in this book—compiled using a variety of formal research methods, including content analysis, interview, and survey—emphasize cultural orientation and global implications of climate and sustainability concerns and issues. The contributors explore the cultures, geographies, and media systems underpinning climate and sustainability campaigns emerging around the world, how we theorize about them, and the ways in which media are used to communicate about them. The way in which complex problems and opportunities associated with globalization and power inequities interplay with climate and sustainability communication requires creative, interdisciplinary, approaches. This book opens new conversations for integrating scholarly arenas of mass media communication, science and environmental communication, political communication, and health communication, as well as their respective theory and research method sets." (Publisher description)
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