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This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy
Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on
climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses
the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes
and understanding in these areas, while also developing a
completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors
address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the
public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when
public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of
attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to
climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and
indeed carry global import.
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy
Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on
climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses
the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes
and understanding in these areas, while also developing a
completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors
address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the
public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when
public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of
attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to
climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and
indeed carry global import.
The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to
catch the world napping. Like the vote for Brexit in the UK, there
seemed to be a new de-synchronicity - a huge reality gap - between
the unfolding of history and the mainstream news media's
interpretations of and reporting of contemporary events. Through a
series of short, sharp interventions from academics and
journalists, this book interrogates the emergent media war around
Donald Trump. A series of interconnected themes are used to set an
agenda for exploration of Trump as the lynch-pin in the fall of the
liberal mainstream and the rise of the right media mainstream in
the USA. By exploring topics such as Trump's television celebrity,
his presidential candidacy and data-driven election campaign, his
use of social media, his press conferences and combative
relationship with the mainstream media, and the question of 'fake
news' and his administration's defence of 'alternative facts', the
contributors rally together to map the parallels of the seemingly
momentous and continuing shifts in the wider relationship between
media and politics.
Human consumption of meat and dairy products continues to be a
major driver of climate change but has so far been largely
overlooked in national and international climate policy. Using data
obtained from a twelve-country survey and focus groups and
stakeholder meetings in Brazil, China, the United States, and the
United Kingdom, the report aims to explore the extent of public
awareness and understanding of the issue and make specific
recommendations for state and non-state actors to develop dietary
change policies on the national and international level. In doing
so, it will help to shift the focus toward demand-side action,
which has been shown to be essential both to meet international
agreed climate objectives and to achieve other societal, health,
and environmental objectives.
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