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Climate Change and the Media brings together an international group of scholars to discuss one of the most important issues in human history: climate change. Since public understanding of the issue relies heavily on media coverage, the media plays a pivotal role in the way we address it. This edited collection - the first scholarly work to examine the relationship between climate change and the media - examines the changing nature of media coverage around the world, from the USA, the UK, and Europe, to China, Australasia, and the developing world. Chapters consider the impact of public relations and fictional programming, the relationship between public understanding and media coverage, and the impact of the media industries themselves on climate change. At a time when governments must take action to alleviate the catastrophic risk that climate change poses, this collection expertly details the pivotal role the media plays in this most fundamental of issues.

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CHOICE Review

According to series editor Simon Cottle, the purpose of the series in which this book appears is to examine media's role and effect in "communication of global threats." Boyce (research fellow, The King's Fund, UK) and Lewis (journalism, Cardiff Univ.) begin with the premise that climate change is "probably the most urgent and potentially devastating of all global crises now confronting the world." The editors divide the 17 chapters by 24 contributors (3 from the US, the rest primarily Europeans) into four sections that frame the issues: "Climate Change in a Global Context," "Beyond Uncertainty and Balance? Media Frames and Public Understanding," "The Politics of Climate Change Coverage," and "The Role of National Agendas." A number of chapters include straightforward content analyses of media coverage in specific global locations. This reviewer was interested to see the results of studies of industrialized and non-industrialized countries (a disclaimer notes that due to changes in media usage, some of the research is already out of date). The book includes a discussion of the impact of Web media coverage and usage. And one chapter examines the historical and current consumption of environmental resources by the media industry itself. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, professionals. F. Tavares Southern Connecticut State University

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The Editors: Tammy Boyce is a research fellow in public health at The King's Fund, London, UK. Her research interests include media coverage of risk, science, and health. She is the author of Health, Risk and News: The MMR Vaccine and the Media (Peter Lang, 2007).
Justin Lewis is Professor of Communication and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He has written many books about media, culture, and politics, including Constructing Public Opinion and Citizens or Consumers: What the Media Tell Us About Political Participation .