Media, Ethics and Climate Change

ComET: The Committee on Environmental Thought

The Committee on Environmental Thought (ComET) is an environmental theory research group located at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The Committee was initially convened by Professor Benjamin Hale in early 2010 as a means of collaborating on projects related to environmental theory. Members of the group seek to investigate and explore environmental problems and the normative presuppositions that inform, frame, and guide solutions to these problems. Read more ...

Cultural Politics of Climate Change

Max 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 ...

Dialing Down: Undoing the Climate Damage

Ben Hale’s research explores the ethics of climate change responses: Geoengineering, Ocean Fertilization, and the Problem of Permissible Pollution; Science, Technology and Human Values; Getting the Bad Out, The Environment; Non-Renewable Resources and the Inevitability of Outcomes; and Private Ownership and Moral Jurisdiction. Read more ...

Emissions from Estate 4.0: How Climate Change Coverage in New/Social Media Reshapes the Climate Science-Policy-Public Interactions in the 21st Century

Mass media stitch together formal science and policy with everyday activities in the public sphere. Many dynamic, contested and complex factors contribute to how media outlets portray various facets of climate change. This proposed project seeks to better understand how issues, events and information have often become portrayed in the media around the world, through new and social media. Read more ...

Ethics, Public Policy, and Environmental Science

This NSF-funded joint project between Northern Arizona University, the University of Montana, and the University of Colorado at Boulder aims to develop educational resources that will enable graduate students in the natural sciences to develop the fundamental skills needed to navigate the intersection of ethics, public policy, and environmental science. Read more ...

ICECaps: International Collective on Environment, Culture & Politics

Founded in 2012 at the University of Colorado Boulder, the International Collective on Environment, Culture and Politics is a research group that examines some of today’s most pressing environmental issues. ICE CaPs members and affiliates cross disciplines to apply a wide range of theories and perspectives to study issues at the human-environment interface. We work across scales from the individual to the global. Read more ...

Inside the Greenhouse

Max Boykoff and Beth Osnes of the Theater Department at University of Colorado Boulder are working to deepen our understanding of how issues associated with climate change are/can be communicated, by creating artifacts through interactive theatre, film, fine art, performance art, television programming, and appraising as well as extracting effective methods for multimodal climate communication. Read more ...

Media and Climate Change Observatory (MECCO)

Monthly 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 ...

Successful Climate Adaptation Strategies and Cultural Engagement in Mumbai, India

This proposed project endeavors to improve our textured understanding of multi-level climate governance in the new millennium. The research approaches this massive challenge by focusing on four critical, dynamic and intersecting features as they manifest in Mumbai, India. Read more ...