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2. Energy communication: theory and praxis towards a sustainable energy future
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cozen, Brian (author), Endres, Danielle (author), Rai Peterson, Tarla (author), Horton, Cristi (author), and Barnett, Joshua Trey (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-01
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10694
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(3): 289-294
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, and consumption. We then offer three generative directions for future research related to energy transitions as communicative processes: analysing campaigns’ strategic efforts, critically theorizing energy’s transnational power dynamics, and theorizing the energy democracy movement.
3. How good are past predictions of global warming?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wigley, Tom M.L. (author / University of Adelaide, South Australia)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D11643
- Journal Title:
- Skeptical Inquirer
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(2)
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Online issue., "Critics of climate science claim that climate models lack predictive skill. In fact, some of the earliest predictions made thirty years ago have performed remarkably well." ... "the bad news is that in terms of action, we are still only scratching the surface of responses needed...to prevent 'dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.' The real challenges lie ahead."
4. Livestock's contribution to climate change: facts and fiction
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mitloehner, Frank (author / University of California-Davis)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11025
- Notes:
- Via online., "A white paper, defining the role animal agriculture and other sectors of societ play in their respective contribution of greenhouse gasses, as the societal concerns grow to seek a sustainable global future." ... "Now is the time to end the rhetoric and separate facts from fiction around the numerous sectors that contribute emissions and to identify solutions for the global food supply that allow us to reduce our impact on the planet and its resources."
5. National parks report on climate change finally released, uncensored
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shogren, Elizabeth (author)
- Format:
- Blog
- Publication Date:
- 2018-05-18
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10310
- Notes:
- Online from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Emoryville, California., "Backing away from attempts at censorship, the National Park Service today released a report charting the risks to national parks from sea level rise and storms."
6. Rural perspectives of climate change: a study from Saurastra and Kutch of Western India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Moghariya, Dineshkumar P. (author), Smardon, Richard C. (author), and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-08-01
- Published:
- [place of publication not identified]: SAGE Publishing
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10123
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(6) : 660–677
- Notes:
- 18 pages., Via online journal., This research reports on rural people’s beliefs and understandings of climate change in the Saurastra/ Kutch region of Western India. Results suggest that although most rural respondents have not heard about the scientific concept of climate change, they have detected changes in the climate. They appear to hold divergent understandings about climate change and have different priorities for causes and solutions. Many respondents appear to base their understandings of climate change upon a mix of ideas drawn from various sources and rely on different kinds of reasoning in relation to both causes of and solutions to climate change to those used by scientists. Environmental conditions were found to influence individuals’ understanding of climate change, while demographic factors were not. The results suggest a need to learn more about people’s conceptual models and understandings of climate change and a need to include local climate research in communication efforts.
7. Science - especially climate research - needs a "sunshine" law
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thacker, Paul D. (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02-15
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12108
- Notes:
- Online from Radio Free. 3 pages., Author reports on helping the U.S. Senate draft and pass the Physician Payments Sunshine Act a decade ago. It requires companies to report monies and gifts they give physicians, which are known to influence what doctors prescribe or promote. "We need a 'sunshine law' for science that would expose all sorts of conflicts of interest and industry manipulation that skew research on food, synthetical chemicals, pesticides, air pollution, genetic technology, and the climate."
8. Scientists, environmental managers and science journalists: a hierarchical model to comprehend and enhance the environmental decision-making process
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carcez da Rocha, Erika (author) and Bernardo da Rocha, Pedro Luis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11415
- Journal Title:
- Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(4) : 169-176
- Notes:
- 24 pages., Open access and online via ScienceDirect., The suggested model involves interactions and integration among knowledge (K), social practices (P), and values (V). Authors contemplated bottom-up relationships among scientists, environmental managers, science journalists, and other citizens operating within a context of top-down institutional constraints. They emphasized values and social practices, as well as knowledge, in addressing institutional change.