Lackner Bettina - Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences

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It is widely known that a better understanding of what climate change is, and what it means to both people and nations, is necessary. It is also a fact that the identification of approaches, processes, methods and tools which may help to better communicate it is needed. There is also a perceived need to showcase successful examples of how communication on matters related to climate change across society and stakeholders can take place, so as to catalyse the sort of cross-sectoral action needed to address the phenomena and its many consequences.

Aware of these facts, the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP), led by the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), has engaged on a wide range of information and communication initiatives, around the world. Apart from many events on matters related to various aspects of climate change, it has been trying to reach a variety of stakeholders, and to bring climate change close to them.

The book Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences is a further step on this direction. It has been prepared with a view to provide a comprehensive assessment of the potentials, means and methods to communicate climate change across various groups. Apart from chapters handing the theory and applications of climate change communication, the book contains also papers handling the ways museums communicate and handle climate change, providing an overview of the unique contributions museums can provide to an understanding of climate change. Altogether, this book meets a perceived need for publications which specifically aim at documenting and disseminating the wealth of experiences of climate change communication available today.

We hope this book will be useful to specialists on climate change communication, but also to environmental managers, policy makers, planners researchers and students, as we continue to work together to address the challenges related to climate change communication.