Gesa Lüdecke Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany gesaluedecke@hotmail.com

Gesa Lüdecke is a PhD student in the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. In her dissertation she focuses on climate change communication on television in Germany and pursues the impact of TV coverage on climate change issues on climate-related responsible behaviour among adolescents. Gesa Lüdecke studied Environmental Sciences with emphasis on informal learning, sustainable development, and media communication. After graduating she worked on a EU co-financed multinational project concerning coastal flood and erosion management between coastal management authorities in five North Sea countries (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and United Kingdom) with focus on developing a communication strategy for the coastal population in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.