More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change?
Public engagement on climate change is a vital concern for both science and society. Despite more people engaging with climate change science today, there remains a high-level contestation in the public sphere regarding scientific credibility and identifying information needs, interests, and concern...
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| author | Michael Murunga Gretta T. Pecl Emily M. Ogier Peat Leith Catriona Macleod Rachel Kelly Stuart Corney Ingrid E. van Putten David Mossop Coco Cullen-Knox Silvana Bettiol Paul Fox-Hughes Chris Sharples Jocelyn Nettlefold |
| author_facet | Michael Murunga Gretta T. Pecl Emily M. Ogier Peat Leith Catriona Macleod Rachel Kelly Stuart Corney Ingrid E. van Putten David Mossop Coco Cullen-Knox Silvana Bettiol Paul Fox-Hughes Chris Sharples Jocelyn Nettlefold |
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| description | Public engagement on climate change is a vital concern for both science and society. Despite more people engaging with climate change science today, there remains a high-level contestation in the public sphere regarding scientific credibility and identifying information needs, interests, and concerns of the non-technical public. In this paper, we present our response to these challenges by describing the use of a novel “public-powered” approach to engaging the public through submitting questions of interest about climate change to climate researchers before a planned engagement activity. Employing thematic content analysis on the submitted questions, we describe how those people we engaged with are curious about understanding climate change science, including mitigating related risks and threats by adopting specific actions. We assert that by inviting the public to submit their questions of interest to researchers before an engagement activity, this step can inform why and transform how actors engage in reflexive dialogue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f736419fc8944640874bf3496f6984152022-12-22T03:53:14ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872022-06-012721410.5751/ES-13147-27021413147More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change?Michael Murunga0Gretta T. Pecl1Emily M. Ogier2Peat Leith3Catriona Macleod4Rachel Kelly5Stuart Corney6Ingrid E. van Putten7David Mossop8Coco Cullen-Knox9Silvana Bettiol10Paul Fox-Hughes11Chris Sharples12Jocelyn Nettlefold13Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaInstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaInstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaCSIRO Agriculture and Food, Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, AustraliaInstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaCentre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaInstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaCSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaInstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaCentre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaCollege of Health and Medicine, Tasmanian School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaBureau of Meteorology, Hobart, AustraliaSchool of Technology, Environments and Design, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaAustralia Broadcasting Corporation Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaPublic engagement on climate change is a vital concern for both science and society. Despite more people engaging with climate change science today, there remains a high-level contestation in the public sphere regarding scientific credibility and identifying information needs, interests, and concerns of the non-technical public. In this paper, we present our response to these challenges by describing the use of a novel “public-powered” approach to engaging the public through submitting questions of interest about climate change to climate researchers before a planned engagement activity. Employing thematic content analysis on the submitted questions, we describe how those people we engaged with are curious about understanding climate change science, including mitigating related risks and threats by adopting specific actions. We assert that by inviting the public to submit their questions of interest to researchers before an engagement activity, this step can inform why and transform how actors engage in reflexive dialogue.https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss2/art14/climate changeclimate change communicationpublic engagementscience communicationtransdisciplinary research |
| spellingShingle | Michael Murunga Gretta T. Pecl Emily M. Ogier Peat Leith Catriona Macleod Rachel Kelly Stuart Corney Ingrid E. van Putten David Mossop Coco Cullen-Knox Silvana Bettiol Paul Fox-Hughes Chris Sharples Jocelyn Nettlefold More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change? Ecology and Society climate change climate change communication public engagement science communication transdisciplinary research |
| title | More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change? |
| title_full | More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change? |
| title_fullStr | More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change? |
| title_full_unstemmed | More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change? |
| title_short | More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change? |
| title_sort | more than just information what does the public want to know about climate change |
| topic | climate change climate change communication public engagement science communication transdisciplinary research |
| url | https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss2/art14/ |
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