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2. Climate change: a guide to the information and disinformation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Directory
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- International: Society of Environmental Journalists, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11418
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Introduction online via website., This resource provide links to 17 sources of information about climate change.
3. Conflicting frames of reference: environmental changes in coastal Indonesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Reichel, Christian (author), Martens, Sofia Elena (author), and Harms, Arne (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Indonesia: Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07332
- Notes:
- Pages 93-118 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages.
4. Eco-efficiency among dairy farmers: the importance of socio-economic characteristics and farmer attitudes
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Urdiales, Maria Perez (author), Lansink, Alfons Oude (author), and Wall, Alan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Spain: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10186
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Resource Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 64(4): 559-574
- Notes:
- pgs. 559–574, Via online journal, The aim of this paper is to assess the eco-efficiency of dairy farms in Spain. To do so, we use data from a survey carried out in 2010 for the specific purpose of analysing the environmental performance of 50 dairy farms in the Spanish region of Asturias. The survey contains information on nutrients balances and greenhouse gas emissions which is used to calculate environmental pressure indicators. Eco-efficiency is measured using data envelopment analysis. We analyse the influence of farmers’ socio-economic characteristics and attitudes in explaining these eco-efficiency scores using truncated regression and bootstrapping procedures. On average, the dairy farms are found to be highly eco-inefficient. Among our results, farmers that are younger, that plan to continue in operation in the foreseeable future and that participate more in training schemes are found to be more eco-efficient. Self-reported positive environmental habits are also reflected in actual eco-efficient performance. We quantify these potential gains in eco-efficiency through a simulation analysis based on the estimated model’s coefficients.
5. 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.
6. Environmentally sustainable meat consumption: an analysis of the Norwegian public debate
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hårvik Austgulen, Marthe (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03
- Published:
- Norway: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10254
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Consumer Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(1) : 45–66
- Notes:
- 22 pages., Via online journal, Private consumption is increasingly being blamed for resource depletion and environmental degradation, and the discourse of ascribing environmental responsibility to the individual consumer has become a part of mainstream policy-making. Measures aimed at promoting consumers' voluntary engagement through sustainable consumption now constitute an important part of public sustainability strategies. Nevertheless, the actual progress made in changing people's consumption patterns in a more sustainable direction has been modest. Based on a quantitative and a qualitative content analysis of articles on environmentally sustainable consumption of meat published in five national and regional newspapers in Norway between 2000 and 2010, it is argued in this article that an important reason for the lack of both political and consumer engagement in the issue can be attributed to a discursive confusion that arises from a simultaneous existence of mainly two clashing discourses on what is actually environmentally sustainable consumption of meat. One that is focusing on the environmentally malign aspects of consumption and production of (especially) red meat, and another that is focusing on the environmentally benign aspects of production and consumption of red meat. The findings imply that the lack of consensus on the character of the problem constitutes a major barrier for the opportunity to change people's consumption patterns in a more environmentally sustainable direction through the use of voluntary measures.
7. 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."
8. Investigation report on the basic condition of addressing climate change in agriculture of Kyrgyzstan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feng, Ding (author), XueQin, Ma (author), ShengHai, Pu (author), QingLong, Geng (author), NaNa, Shan (author), and XinYong, Wang (author)
- Format:
- Journal article abstract
- Language:
- Chinese, english
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- China: Editorial Department of Xinjiang Agricultural Sciences
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08009
- Journal Title:
- Xinjiang Agricultural Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 49 (12): 2331-2337
9. It is always dry here: examining perceptions about drought and climate change in the southern high plains
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Colston, Nicole M. (author), Vadjunec, Jacqueline M. (author), and Fagin, Todd (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10676
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Notes:
- 18 pages., via online journal., Drought is defined, experienced, and communicated about in multiple ways. This case study examines individual definitions of drought (timing, impacts, and severity) and attitudes about climate change. Household surveys (n = 120) were conducted in Cimarron County, Oklahoma and Union County, New Mexico using a stratified random sampling method to select farmers, ranchers, and town residents. Information about drought is primarily communicated between neighbors, friends, and family, as well as media and local governing agencies. Residents perceive the recent drought to be the worst drought on record, regardless of previous drought experiences. Residents reported widespread drought-related impacts on agriculture, environment, and society. Most residents see drought as cyclical and driven by natural causes, rather than human causes. We recommend adaptive drought communication engage more fully with identity, place, and history. Climate information should be presented in a relevant manner to diverse agricultural stakeholders with differing attitudes about climate change, management, and climate information.
10. 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."