Introduction to Change Discourse

With adequate climate change knowledge and mitigation strategies, many young people can contribute and engage practically with the climate change discourse, thereby improving the climate change statistics in their regions and accelerating progress on the SDGs.

Yet while polarization in online climate change discourse has been extensively studied in terms of isolated communities and echo chambers, less is known about the extent of affective polarization that characterizes the hostile nature of intergroup interactions.

Climate change discourse makes us aware of our mortality and prompts consumerism as a social psychological defensive strategy, which is counterproductive to pro-environmental behavior.

Despite noting changes in weather and seasonality, Bedamuni people have had little exposure to global climate change discourses.

We argue that global climate change discourses reinforce these internal conditions by failing to acknowledge the complexity associated with the ‘politics of scale’.

India’s continuous attempt to resolve this dilemma has produced specific frames–projecting itself as a victim, mistrust of the West, framing the Earth’s CO2 carrying capacity as extended sovereign territory, and national exceptionalism–in the climate change discourse.

The role of urban trees in the climate change discourse is not well articulated due to limited data.

Background: In the climate change discourse, a body of scholarship focusing on how people perceive climate change and its impact is increasing.

The need for ecologically sustainable management of natural forests has assumed greater prominence in conservation and climate change discourses.

This paper is aimed at providing guidelines for social work practice in mainstreaming the participation of rural women in the climate change discourse.

This finding demonstrates early use of public-facing disinformation about global warming by the petroleum industry and suggests commercial fossil fuel interests played a more obstructive role in climate change discourse and policy throughout the 1980s than previously understood.

However, because many aspects of climate change discourse are contingent on scenarios, there is considerable momentum that will make such a course correction difficult and contested - even as efforts to improve scenarios have informed research that will be included in the IPCC 6th Assessment.

The normative concepts of equity and justice are rising narratives within global climate change discourse.

In this paper, I strongly argue that vulnerability to climate change is highly gendered and therefore gender analysis should be at the heart of climate change discourses, policy and interventions.

This article provides an empirical study of public engagement with climate change discourse in China by analysing how Chinese publics participate in the public discussion around two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and how individual users interact with state and elite actors on the pre-eminent Chinese microblogging platform Weibo.

While concerns about nuclear power plants are warranted, nuclear power plants may play a crucial role in climate change discourse.

It contributes to public land-use change discourses by enhancing information offers that can be adopted by other multi-disciplinary data users - even from non-spatial domains.

This article situates Japan in the international climate security debate by analysing competing climate change discourses.

Whilst there is little evidence of ‘post-colonial’ rhetoric appearing in Kazakhstan’s official climate change discourse, the state’s past is evident in its instrumental approach to environmental issues which in turn translates into inconsistencies in its climate change policy.

Specifically, I focus on three ways in which community members are employing the practice of Etëtung to progress both climate justice and cultural sustainability concerns: first, through the use of Etëtung to maintain and transmit cultural and environmental knowledge; second, through featuring Etëtung in cultural tourism; and third, through drawing on Etëtung to enable greater participation in the regional and international climate change discourse.

This approach both situates climate change discourses within the wider context of perceived moral decline, and, through emphasising local responsibility, facilitates Islander agency.

This paper uses a mixed method approach (random digit dialing survey, content analysis of newspaper articles) to examine information sources used in learning about climate change, whose voices are presented in climate change discourse, and whose voices are trusted.

The aim of this paper is to analyse the linguistic adequacy of the lexical resources used in climate change discourse in Mulanje district in order to determine how language of sustainability can be achieved to foster citizen participation in climate change mitigation.

In this review, the importance of microorganisms in the climate change discourse is highlighted.

These themes are then analysed with a dialogical perspective on the way in which the answers relate to and reply to climate change discourses circulating in society.

Values related to culture, identity, community cohesion and sense of place have sometimes been downplayed in the climate change discourse.

This chapter on “adaptation journey” presents progress and advancement of adaptation to climate change discourse over time.

Relocation as an adaptation strategy to coastal degradation remains on the fringes of climate change discourse.

,This is a first attempt to examine climate change discourses in a developing country.

The following themed titles and sub-titles exemplify a kind of ‘extensions’ to the introductions: • Literature Review (Ross & Rivers, 2017; Wu, 2018; Du-Babcock & Chan, 2018; Carden, 2018); • Review of literature on climate change discourses in the context of mobilization (Molek-Kozakowska, 2018); • Aims; Literature Review (Marlow, 2015);.

In this perspective, language plays a crucial role in the conceptualisation and the framing of climate change discourse.

In recent years, contemporary climate change discourse has become dominated by the trope ‘what if’.

Most importantly, the findings show that many statements refer to the discourse of multidisciplinary climate change discourse.

Is climate change discourse highly politicized and divisive, or has the debate instead become “post-political,” oriented around consensus, problem-solving and administrative management? Adjudicating this debate is important for pragmatic and theoretical reasons.

I investigate the presence of frames within climate change discourse and their political influence in the creation of climate-energy policies.

The reliance on “RELIGION” metaphors in climate change discourses has been previously documented by researchers.

We illustrate the investigation process of Digital Discourse Analysis by the example of renewable energies in climate change discourse in Germany and Britain and show how the notions of risk and uncertainty influence the conceptual framing of individual energy technologies in media texts.