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2. Deliberative mapping of options for tackling climate change: citizens and specialists 'open up' appraisal of geoengineering
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07187
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(3) : 269-286
3. Integrating media studies of climate change into transdisciplinary research: which direction should we be heading?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Smith, Hollie M. (author) and Lindenfeld, Laura (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-05-08
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08551
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (2): 179-196
4. Natural versus anthropogenic climate change: Swedish farmers’ joint construction of climate perceptions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Asplund, Therese (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10596
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(5), 560–575
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., While previous research into understandings of climate change has usually examined general public perceptions, this study offers an audience-specific departure point. This article analyses how Swedish farmers perceive climate change and how they jointly shape their understandings. The agricultural sector is of special interest because it both contributes to and is directly affected by climate change. Through focus group discussions with Swedish farmers, this study finds that (1) farmers relate to and understand climate change through their own experiences, (2) climate change is understood either as a natural process subject to little or no human influence or as anthropogenic and (3) various communication tools contribute to the formation of natural and anthropogenic climate change frames. The article ends by discussing frame resonance and frame clash in public understanding of climate change and by comparing potential similarities and differences in how various segments of the public make sense of climate change.
5. Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-03
- Published:
- Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10302
- Journal Title:
- Discourse, Context & Media
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 : 73-81
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Via online journal., This study traces popularity-driven coverage of climate change in New Scientist with the special aim of identifying which aspects of the issue have been backgrounded. Unlike institutional communication or quality press coverage of climate change, commercial science journalism has received less attention with respect to how it frames the crisis. Assuming that the construction of newsworthiness in popular science journalism requires eliminating, or at least obscuring, some alienating information, the study identifies prevalent frames, news values and discursive strategies in the outlet’s most-read online articles on climate change (2013–2015). With the official statement of the World Meteorological Organization (2014) as a reference, it considers which dimensions of the coverage have been backgrounded, and illustrates how language is recruited to de-emphasize some representations through implicitness, underspecification, or syntactic and compositional devices. It finds that the coverage relies on threat frames, privileges novelty and the timeliness and impact of climate science, avoids responsibility and adaptation frames, and endorses the so-called progress narrative. It discusses how this may forestall social and personal mobilization by placing trust in science institutions and technologies to confront the crisis.
6. Trends on Advanced Information and Communication Technologies for Improving Agricultural Productivities: A Bibliometric Analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Armenta-Medina, Dagoberto (author), Ramirez-del Real, Tania A. (author), Villanueva-Vásquez, Daniel (author), and Mejia-Aguirre, Cristian (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12386
- Journal Title:
- Agronomy
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10 (12)
- Notes:
- 24 pages, In this work, an exhaustive revision is given of the literature associated with advanced information and communication technologies in agriculture within a window of 25 years using bibliometric tools enabled to detect of the main actors, structure, and dynamics in the scientific papers. The main findings are a trend of growth in the dynamics of publications associated with advanced information and communication technologies in agriculture productivity. Another assertion is that countries, like the USA, China, and Brazil, stand out in many publications due to allocating more resources to research, development, and agricultural productivity. In addition, the collaboration networks between countries are frequently in regions with closer cultural and idiomatic ties; additionally, terms’ occurrence are obtained with Louvain algorithm predominating four clusters: precision agriculture, smart agriculture, remote sensing, and climate smart agriculture. Finally, the thematic-map characterization with Callon’s density and centrality is applied in three periods. The first period of thematic analysis shows a transition in detecting the variability of a nutrient, such as nitrogen, through the help of immature georeferenced techniques, towards greater remote sensing involvement. In the transition from the second to the third stage, the maturation of technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, wireless sensor networks, and the machine learning area, is observed
7. “They give you lots of information, but ignore what it's really about”: residents' experiences with the planned introduction of a new high-voltage power line
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lenzen, Manfred (author), Lundie, Sven (author), Bransgrove, Grant (author), Charet, Lisa (author), and Sack, Fabian (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10638
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 46(1): 113-141
- Notes:
- 30 pages., via online journal., Faced with the task of communicating their combined social, environmental and economic impact, water service providers are seeking to report overall performance in an aggregated way. Such a methodology must be scientifically robust, easily communicated and allow benchmarking of performance while reflecting a transition towards sustainability. In this paper the ecological footprint (EF) is calculated for Sydney Water Corporation (SWC), using input–output analysis and land disturbance in an innovative approach that overcomes problems identified in the original EF concept. This pilot study has allowed SWC to gain some valuable insights into its impacts: SWC’s annual EF is about 73 100 ha in terms of land disturbance. Of this, 54 000 ha are projected to become disturbed as a consequence of climate change, with the remainder of 19 100 ha being disturbed on SWC’s premises (2400 ha) and on those of upstream suppliers (16 700 ha). Total on-site impacts equal 9300 ha, while indirect land disturbance contributes 63 600 ha. The EF appears promising as an educational and communication tool and may have potential as a decision support tool. However, further research is needed to incorporate downstream impacts into the EF, which would have significant benefits to SWC in terms of assessing and communicating the organization’s overall progress towards sustainability.