Much has been learnt about public awareness and understanding of climate change. Many of the structural and behavioral obstacles to moving societies from climate concern to action have been identified. However, less is known about climate change communicators, though their contributions are critical to success. In evaluating risks from sea level rise, for example, communicators focused on assumptions about levels before assessing severity of impacts and the adequacy of adaptation options.
Dr Louis Lebel, Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University, is conducting a research project in collaboration with IWP and the LRF Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR) to study what 45 communicators in Singapore and Bangkok, Thailand, had to say about climate risks, and the strategies they employed to communicate with different audiences.
He will be giving a presentation on 27 May 2021, 2pm Singapore time. Please register your attendance via
this link. More information at the
IPUR website.