DOI: 10.1002/wcc.199
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84871452653
论文题名: Local people's accounts of climate change: To what extent are they influenced by the media?
作者: Marin A ; , Berkes F
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2013
卷: 4, 期: 1 起始页码: 1
结束页码: 8
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climate models
; Contrast media
; Communication media
; Exposed to
; Indigenous people
; Inter-disciplinary studies
; Local people
; Climate change
; climate change
; indigenous population
; interdisciplinary approach
; mass media
; media role
; perception
英文摘要: Researchers using local and indigenous people's accounts of climate change in their scientific work often face scepticism regarding the value of such information. The critics' argument is that since local and indigenous people are often exposed to the global discourse on climate change, their observations and information may in fact be reproductions of science popularized through communication media. There are instances in which local people's accounts of climate change and impacts thereof may be influenced by how media frame and popularize scientific models and predictions. However, we propose several reasons why the influence of media reports and coverage of climate change is usually superficial. First, there are significant differences between the epistemologies employed by media and those of local people. Although media may be borrowing local environmental categories, they may be filling them with different content, leading to incoherence. Second, media accounts are often general and locally irrelevant, in contrast with the detailed local anchoring of the knowledge often held by people who rely on natural resources for their livelihoods. Their observations often rely on holistic ways of knowing their environments, integrating large numbers of variables, and the relationships between these. We propose that accounts based on such observations are probably not influenced by media framings and that uncovering their underlying 'ways of knowing' would provide valuable additional evidence in interdisciplinary studies of climate change. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76400
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway; Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Marin A,, Berkes F. Local people's accounts of climate change: To what extent are they influenced by the media?[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2013-01-01,4(1)