Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents:The Role of Space in Media Reception

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Beteiligte Personen:
  • Brüggemann, Michael
  • Rödder, Simone
Verlag/Körperschaft:
Open Book Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr:
2020
Medientyp:
Text
Schlagworte:
  • Global Warming
  • Climate Change
  • Global News
  • Local Discourses
Beschreibung:
  • This chapter explores the role ofspace in making sense of climate change.
    The study compares how the United Nations’ summit resulting in the
    Paris Agreement in 2015 was received in an urban ( Hamburg) and a
    rural setting ( Otterndorf), both located in Northern Germany. In each
    setting, two focus group interviews were held (n = 15), one with long-
    term inhabitants and one with newly relocated citizens. Media coverage
    was criticized as depicting climate change as overly complex and distant.
    Use of the local newspaper was more frequent in the rural setting, but
    its reporting was seen as failing to provide a local angle to the climate
    summit. Space plays an important role: people in the rural setting—with
    the rising tides of the North Sea behind the dikes—felt more personally
    concerned by climate change. Furthermore, long-term inhabitants
    drew much stronger links between climate change and their region.
    The duration of stay in a certain setting thus turns out to moderate the
    influence of space on interpretations of climate change.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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