Category Archives: New Publications

Framing Sustainability and Climate Change: Interrogating Discourses in Vernacular and English-Language Media in Sundarbans, India

Posted on November 27, 2018 by prometheus

by Aditya Ghosh and Maxwell Boykoff Geoforum, November 2018 Highlights Anglophone media portrayals marginalized local climate vulnerabilities. Technocratic conservation agenda, mythmaking drove semantic drift in media accounts. Anglophone media representations failed to articulate poverty, inequality, justice. Anglophone media discourses were … Continue reading →

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Tracking Progress on the Economic Costs of Disasters Under the Indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals

Posted on November 1, 2018 by prometheus

by Roger Pielke, Jr. Environmental Hazards, 2018 The Sustainable Development Goals indicator framework identifies as an indicator of progress the objective of reducing disaster losses as a proportion of global gross domestic product. This short analysis presents data on this … Continue reading →

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Is It Possible? A Future Where People and Nature Thrive

Posted on October 16, 2018 by prometheus

CIRES News October 2018 Can humans drive economic growth, meet rising demand for food, energy and water, and  make significant environmental progress? The short answer is “yes,” but it comes with several big “ifs.” New research shows that we can … Continue reading →

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Burden Sharing at the Water’s Edge

Posted on October 1, 2018 by prometheus

Book Review of ‘Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore’ by Elizabeth Rush Nature Climate Change 8 , doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0288-5 by Max Boykoff Both elegy and eulogy, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore is a compelling portrait of life in a changing … Continue reading →

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A Laughing Matter? Confronting Climate Change Through Humor

Posted on September 24, 2018 by prometheus

by Maxwell Boykoff and Bth Osnes Political Geography September 2018 Abstract: Why fuse climate change and comedy? Anthropogenic climate change is one of the most prominent and existential challenges of the 21st century. Consequently, public discourses typically consider climate change as … Continue reading →

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Regional Climate Response Collaboratives: Multi-Institutional Support for Climate Resilience

Posted on June 7, 2018 by prometheus

by Kristen Averyt, Justin D. Derner, Lisa Dilling et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society May 2018, pp. 891-898 Abstract: Federal investments by U.S. agencies to enhance climate resilience at regional scales grew over the past decade (2010s). To maximize … Continue reading →

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Making Research Relevant for Decision Makers

Posted on May 15, 2018 by prometheus

CIRES News, May 2018 CIRES’ Western Water Assessment releases new usable science guide for researchers hoping for impact Experts in NOAA/CIRES’ Western Water Assessment have released a new usable science guide to break down common barriers: research questions may not be targeted … Continue reading →

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Framing in Climate Change Videos

Posted on April 18, 2018 by prometheus

León, B., M. Boykoff, J. Huda, and C. Rodrigo (2018), Framing in Climate Change Videos. Communicating Science and Technology Through Online Video: Researching a New Media Phenomenon, Ed. Bienvenido León and Michael Bourk, 107-119, Routledge. Book Description: Online video’s unique capacity to … Continue reading →

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Measuring Livelihood Resilience: The Household Livelihood Resilience Approach

Posted on April 9, 2018 by prometheus

An Outgrowth of CSTPR’s Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRCCC) internship program. Amy Quandt was a 2013 RCRCCC intern in Isiolo, Kenya. World Developement Volume 107, July 2018, Pages 253–263 by Amy Quandt Abstact: The concept of resilience, and livelihood resilience more … Continue reading →

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Learning to Expect Surprise: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Beyond

Posted on March 22, 2018 by prometheus

by Lisa Dilling, Rebecca Morss, and Olga Wilhelmi Journal of Extreme Events (2018) Vol. 4, No. 3 Extreme events often bring unexpected situations and impacts, as the sequence of hurricanes and other natural disasters in summer and fall 2017 demonstrated. … Continue reading →

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