Engaging the public in climate change and energy demand reduction

Abstract:

The aim of the workshop was to bring together academics and practitioners from different disciplines and backgrounds in order to ultimately inform more effective approaches to public communication of, and engagement with, climate change and energy reduction. The overarching question to be addressed by the workshop was, What can empirical and theoretical studies of communication and behaviour change tell us about how we might move towards a more climate-friendly (low-carbon, climate resilient) society?. More specifically the workshop objectives were to: share cutting-edge research and practice; foster learning across disciplines and contexts; identify gaps in understanding; form new interdisciplinary contacts and networks; consider and generate new insights; stimulate novel collaborations; provide the contents for a book and a workshop report that would beuseful for academics, practit

Publication Year:

2008

Publisher:

UKERC

DOI:

No DOI minted

Author(s):

Lorenzoni, I., ONeill, S., Whitmarsh, L., Otoadese, J., Keay-Bright, S. and John, K.