[GreenYes] New book about communicating climate change

[Gary Liss <gary@garyliss.com>]

Apologies for Cross-postings

Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:23:59 -0600
Subject: [GreenYes] New book about communicating climate change
From: amy perlmutter <amy@aperlmutter.com>

I wanted to alert you to a new book called Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change.  As a disclaimer, my friend, Susi Moser, is one of the editors. Susi is a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.   Amazon is listing it as $125! I can?t believe this is true, so check your bookstore and see what they say! 

Please feel free to forward this widely. I have been hearing about the birth and development of this book for two years, and it sounds like there is a lot of new information here, and that it is essential for anyone working on social change around environmental issues. From Amazon:

Book Description

The need for effective communication, public outreach, and education to increase support for policy, collective action and behavior change is ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating climate change in order to facilitate societal response. It offers well-founded, practical suggestions on how to communicate climate change and how to approach related social change more effectively. The contributors of this book come from a diverse range of backgrounds, from government and academia to non-governmental and civic sectors of society. The book is accessibly written, and any specialized terminology is explained. It will be of great interest to academic researchers and professionals in climate change, environmental policy, science communication, psychology, sociology, and geography.

About the Author

Susanne Moser is a Research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, Boulder, Colorado. She is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Program fellow and an associate of the International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP) Core Project on Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS). Lisa Dilling is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder. She has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship by CIRES, a John A. Knauss National Sea Grant Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

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Amy Perlmutter
Perlmutter Associates
23 Avon Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-354-5456





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