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Ecology and sustainability became important issues in the mass media and the public sphere, but environmental and risk communication remain a fragmented and still somewhat marginal topic in communication research. In the first theoretical part of this contribution, relevant research questions and important underlying theoretical perspectives like news values, issue attention cycles, media framing...
Drawing from American pragmatist thinking this chapter knits together European and North American approaches on decision making under conditions of ignorance and uncertainty. By doing so, the chapter develops an experimentalist policy logic based on the writings of early pragmatists as well as the Chicago School of sociology to exemplify an example of experimental governance and strategies for continuously...
The notion “risk governance” refers to an integrated concept on how to deal with public risks in general, and so-called complex, ambiguous and uncertain risks in particular. It pertains to the complex whole of what traditionally has been called – and treated as separate activities – “risk assessment”, “risk management”, and “risk communication”, After a short summary of the roots of risk governance,...
This article presents a theoretical-conceptual approach for the communication of societal adaptation to the consequences of global climate change. Next to the dominating issues of prevention and mitigation (e.g. reduction of CO2 emissions) as well as restoration (e.g. reforestation) there is a growing awareness of the need for adaptation. Because of the societal and factual complexity of adaptation...
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