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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Globalization, Climate Change and the Media: An Introduction; Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson and Nina Wormbs -- Arctic Climate Change and the Media: The News Story That Was; Miyase Christensen -- Eyes on the ice: Satellite remote sensing and the narratives of visualized data; Nina Wormbs -- An Ice Free Arctic Sea?: The Science of Sea Ice and Its Interests; Sverker SĖ˛rlin and Julia Lajus -- Signals from a Noisy Region; Annika E. Nilsson and Ralf Dscher -- A Question of Scale: Local versus Pan-Arctic Impacts from Sea Ice Change; Henry P. Huntington -- Under the Ice: Exploring the Arctic's Energy Resources, 1898-1985; Dag Avango and Per Hgselius -- Changing Arctic : Changing World; Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson and Nina Wormbs |
| Summary |
The Arctic sea-ice reached record lows in 2007, and again in 2012. In the international news media, these moments were reflected via striking images of polar bears, crumbling ice chunks and the use of more alarmist metaphors about global climate change. Through these narratives, and despite the periodic disappearance of climate change from media reports due to issue fatigue, a sharper narrative of climate change has entered public discourse: a new global reality where the future is no longer a given. Going beyond media studies as well as descriptive or highly scientific accounts of the impacts of climate change in the Arctic, this book explores how both historical and contemporary mediations, scientific narratives and satellite technology simultaneously capture and reconstruct this new reality of the Anthropocene, where human activities shape the planet. By highlighting the linkages between science, media, environmental change and geopolitics, the informed contributors to the volume invite the reader to reflect on what is local and what is global in today's connected mediatized world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Environmental policy -- Arctic regions
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Mass media and the environment -- Arctic regions
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Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Arctic regions
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Arctic regions
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Climate change -- Arctic regions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Environment and Ecology.
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Climatic changes -- Political aspects
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Environmental policy
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Mass media and the environment
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Arctic Regions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Christensen, Miyase, editor
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Nilsson, Annika, editor
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Wormbs, Nina, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137266231 |
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1137266236 |
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