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The local impact of global climate change: reporting on landscape transformation and threatened identity in the English regional newspaper press
journal contribution
posted on 2010-03-09, 12:25 authored by Tim Brown, Lucy Budd, Morag Bell, Helen RendellThis paper contributes to extant understandings of media representations of climate change
by examining the role of the English regional newspaper press in the transformation and
dissemination of climate change discourse. Unlike previous accounts, we contend that such
newspapers shape public understandings of climate change in ways that have yet to be
adequately charted. With this in mind, this paper examines the ways in which global climate
change is translated into a locally relevant phenomenon. That is, it focuses on its
‘domestication’. Although we acknowledge that there are a number of ways in which this
process occurs, specific attention is drawn to stories that highlight the destruction of local
landscape features, the transformation of important habitats, and the arrival of 'alien' species.
The broader significance of such stories is considered in relation to long-standing debates
concerning the importance of landscape to notions of national and regional identity.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Citation
BROWN, T. ... et al, 2010. The local impact of global climate change: reporting on landscape transformation and threatened identity in the English regional newspaper press. Public Understanding of Science, 19 (6), pp. 686–697.Publisher
© Sage PublicationsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2010ISSN
0963-6625Publisher version
Language
- en