REVIEW: Timely climate media strategy to empower citizens

Keywords: climate action, climate change, climate crisis, environmental journalism, facilitative journalism, normative models, radical journalism, reviews

Abstract

Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives, edited by Robert A. Hackett, Susan Forde, Shane Gunster and Kerrie Foxwell-Norton. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 2017. 204 pages. ISBN 978-1-1389-5039-9

AT THE time of reviewing this important and timely book, Hurricane Irma had just ripped a trail of unprecedented destruction from Antigua, Barbuda and Saint Barthélemy in the eastern Caribbean to Florida with at least 81 deaths. Florida involved one of the largest mass evacuations in US history, with nearly 7 million people being warned to seek shelter elsewhere. Seventy per cent of Miami lost electricity at the height of the storm.

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Author Biography

David Robie, Pacific Media Centre - AUT

Editor of Pacific Journalism Review and Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism

School of Communication Studies

Auckland University of Technology

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Published
30-11-2017
How to Cite
Robie, D. (2017). REVIEW: Timely climate media strategy to empower citizens. Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 23(2), 221-224. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i2.337

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