Visual Climate Change Communication: From Iconography to Locally Framed 3D Visualization
| Autor: | Olaf Schroth, Aleksandra Dulic, Jeannette Angel, Stephen R.J. Sheppard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Environmental communication
business.industry Ecology media_common.quotation_subject Global warming Environmental resource management Climate change Management Monitoring Policy and Law Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Outcome (game theory) Visualization Geography Greenhouse gas Perception Visual communication business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Communication. 8:413-432 |
| ISSN: | 1752-4040 1752-4032 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17524032.2014.906478 |
| Popis: | Climate change is an urgent problem with implications registered not only globally, but also on national and local scales. It is a particularly challenging case of environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas emissions, is invisible. The predominant approach of making climate change visible is the use of iconic, often affective, imagery. Literature on the iconography of climate change shows that global iconic motifs, such as polar bears, have contributed to a public perception of the problem as spatially and temporally remote. This paper proposes an alternative approach to global climate change icons by focusing on recognizable representations of local impacts within an interactive game environment. This approach was implemented and tested in a research project based on the municipality of Delta, British Columbia. A major outcome of the research is Future Delta, an interactive educational game featuring 3D visualizations and simulation tools for climate change adaptation and mitigati... |
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