Max Boykoff

Projects

Carbon Based Industry and Society

trafficMax Boykoff is examining climate adaptation strategies in urban environments (with Dr. Emily Boyd, Leeds University). In this project they have focused on adaptation to flood events in Mumbai, India, and compare particular events in recent years to flooding in urban areas of the UK, and associated adaptive strategies. This project links with some of Max’s past research that has examined vulnerability and livelihood issues in relation to global climate change and extreme events in Honduras. Read more ...

Cultural Politics of Climate Change

Cultural Politics of Climate ChangeMax Boykoff has examined the role of celebrity interventions at the interface with climate science, governance and the everyday (with Dr. Michael K. Goodman, Kings College London, and Dr. Jo Littler, University of Sussex). This examines how the (de)legitimisation of a particular set of “privileged” non nation-state actors influence unfolding considerations and actions to grapple with anthropogenic climate change. Read more ...
 

Media Coverage of Climate Change/Global Warming

Media Coverage of Climate ChangeMonthly updated figure tracking newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents. Max Boykoff (University of Colorado) and Maria Mansfield (University of Exeter) continue to track newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents. They update this figure on a monthly basis as a resource for journalists, researchers, and others who may be interested in tracking these trends. Max Boykoff also has a book coming out with Cambridge University Press in September 2011 titled Who Speaks for Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change. Read more ...