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Foreword
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Contents
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Notes on the Contributors
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List of Abbreviations
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Chapter 1: The Problem: Climate Change, Politics and the Media
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Scale: Width, Depth and Time
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Complexity: Knowledge, Civic Epistemology, Institutions, Inequality
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Political Imagination: Planning, Challenging, Deliberating
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Climate Change, Media and Journalism
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Global Geopolitical Reach
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IPCC AR5 and the Dynamics of Global Media Events
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Mainstream Print Bias and the Notion of the “Public”
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The Space of Interpretation: Attention and Access
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Moments in the Communication Process
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Professional Challenges
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Bibliography
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Chapter 2: Scientists, Communication and the Space of Global Media Attention
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The IPCC: Background and Challenges
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IPCC Authors and Communication Challenges
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Uncertainties as Obstacles?
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Clarity and Its Limits
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The Descriptive-Prescriptive Dilemma
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Summaries for Policymakers: Suitable Communication?
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Controversies
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Climate Pragmatism: Concerning “Things People Love”?
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The Politics of Framing
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Conclusion: Navigating between Constraints
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Chapter 3: Attention, Access and the Global Space of Interpretation: Media Dynamics of the IPCC AR5 Launch Year
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Attention, Highlights and Voices
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The Physical Science Base (WGI): Evidence Confirmed and Questioned
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Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability (WGII): Social and Other Consequences
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Mitigation of Climate Change (WGIII): Alarm and Hope
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The SYR: Global Concern
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Reviewing the Broad Global Response
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Bibliography
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Chapter 4: Mediated Civic Epistemologies? Journalism, Domestication and the IPCC AR5
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Domestication of International/Global News
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Structural Constraints and Comparisons
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Domestic Attention Politics and Access of Voices
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Attention and Access: Local Dynamics
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High Attention, Medium Domestication
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Medium Attention, High Domestication
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Low Coverage, High Domestication
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Low Attention, Low Domestication
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Mediated Civic Epistemologies: Four Preliminary Ideal Types
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Bibliography
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Chapter 5: Disaster, Risk or Opportunity? A Ten-Country Comparison of Themes in Coverage of the IPCC AR5
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Frames, Discourses, Themes
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The Relative Absence of Cross-Country Studies
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Results
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Themes from Disaster to Opportunity
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Conclusions
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Bibliography
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Chapter 6: Journalism, Climate Change, Justice and Solidarity: Editorializing the IPCC AR5
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Theorizing Justice and Solidarity in a Globalizing World
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Justice
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Solidarity
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Methodological Approach and Research Material
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Exploring Spatial and Temporal Conceptions of Justice
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Exploring Attitudes (Modality) Toward Justice
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Attitudes Toward Justice in the Selected Articles
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“The Climate Threat: A Political Problem”. Aftonbladet, Sweden
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“In Joint Steps on Emissions, China and US Set Aside ‘You First’ Approach on Global Warming”. New York Times, USA
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“Immediate Global Action Needed to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions”. The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan
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“Dire UN Climate Change Report is a Call to Action”. Toronto Star, Canada
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“Climate: Let’s Move from Irresponsibility to Acts!” Le Monde, France
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Conclusions
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Bibliography
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Chapter 7: Emerging Economies and BRICS Climate Policy: The Justifying Role of Media
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Non-Western Media Systems
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Socio-Economic Factors
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Key Interpreters of the IPCC Report and Climate Change
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Thematic Analysis of the Media Content
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Biofuel and Responsibilities in Brazil
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Energy Efficiency Through Natural Gas in Russia
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National Strategy and Global Obligations in China
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Policy Efficiency in South Africa
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Chapter 8: Who Captures the Voice of the Climate? Policy Networks and the Political Role of Media in Australia, France and Japan
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Climate Change, “Wicked Problem” and the Concept of Networks
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Climate-Energy Politics and Journalistic Cultures
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Australia: Contentious Politics, Vocal Climate Skeptics and Heavy Reliance on Coal
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France: Consensus Science, Market-Based Political Actions and the Established Hegemony of Nuclear
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Japan: Authorized Science, Political Battle on Mitigation Targets and Polarized Nuclear Debate
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Journalistic Cultures in Australia, France and Japan: Liberal, Pluralist or Corporatist Model
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Voice Representation in the IPCC AR5 Coverage
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Dominance of the Voices: Whose Voices were Authorized and Dominant?
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Diversity of the Voices: How Diversified is the Voice Representation?
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Policy Networks and the Role of Media in the Networks
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Australia: Two Opposing Networks and Media Polarization on Carbon Price
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France: Two Continuum Networks and the Media’s Reproduction of Elite Science Discourses
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Japan: Two-Tiered Networks and the Media’s Polarization of Nuclear Power
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Mediated Division of Climate Debate and the Need for New Broker-Journalism?
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Bibliography
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Chapter 9: Following the Tweets: What Happened to the IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report on Twitter?
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SYR as a Communication Actor-Network
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The Prominence of Domestic Politics and Civil Society Actors
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Interpretive Communities in the #IPCC SYR Communication Network
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The Critical Advocacy of NGOs
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Mass Media Domestication
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Multimedia Attributes of the Network
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Chapter 10: Climate Change and Development Journalism in the Global South
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Development Journalism
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Why Low Coverage in the “Global South”?
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Domesticating the IPCC AR5
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Climate Justice and Development
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Conclusions: Faces and Voices
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Bibliography
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Chapter 11: Good Practices in Climate Science Journalism
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How to Define “Good Practices”?
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From the Arctic and Further South
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Among the Ice and Snow
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Coffee: Crops, Farmers and Consumers
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Biogas Hope in Uganda
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Solar Hope in Texas and Micro-Loans in Bangladesh
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The View from Just Above the Water
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Addressing Uncertainty and Other Difficult Issues
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Consumer Responsibility
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The Science Perspective
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Conclusions and Perspectives
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Bibliography
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Chapter 12: Key Journalists and the IPCC AR5: Toward Reflexive Professionalism?
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Professionalism and Its Uses
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Global Climate Journalism?
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Communicating the IPCC AR5: A Mixed Judgment
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The Logic of Journalism: A Reflexive Self-Criticism
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Roles and Relationships: Boundaries of the Interpretative Community
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Professional Exceptionalism and the Climate Beat
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Conclusion: Resources of Reflexivity
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Bibliography
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Chapter 13: Conclusion: From Assessments to Solutions
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Key Findings
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Lessons for the IPCC
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Lessons for Journalism
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Lessons for (Media) Research
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Bibliography
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Appendix: Newspaper Articles Codebook for IPCC AR5 Stories
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Bibliography
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Index
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