Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions

Emily Coren, Hua Wang

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783031547898
• eBook ISBN: 9783031547904
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Meteorology & Climatology

The climate is changing faster than our cultural practices are adapting to it. This Open Access volume, co-edited by Emily Coren (a science communicator) and Hua Wang (a communication scientist), presents a survey of the latest in agency-focused climate storytelling. Together, practitioners and scholars across different fields shared their knowledge, experience, and insight about how stories can be designed and told to engage, enable, and empower individuals and communities in climate communication and action. You will learn a wide range of narrative strategies and exemplary applications of climate storytelling in terms of professional practices (e.g., education, literature, journalism, popular media), genres and formats (e.g., drama, comedy, fiction), media platforms (e.g., television, radio, mobile), and communication modalities (e.g., text, visual, audio, multisensory).

Entertainment-education has been proven over decades to be an effective tool for social and behavior change in the public health sphere and has not yet been applied at scale to the massive ongoing climate–related disasters that we need to solve now, fast. There is an urgent need to rapidly apply and adapt public engagement tools for climate communication to speed up our response times for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This book takes a snapshot of where climate storytelling is currently at, describes where it fits within a climate communication landscape, and supports the next steps of its development. It facilitates the of creation climate storytelling efficiently by sharing and amplifying what is working well, and building collaborations between practitioners and researchers.

This is an open access book.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Storytelling as a Catalyst for Climate Change Communication and Empowerment
• Entertainment-Education and Climate Change: Program Examples, Evidence, and Best Practices from around the World
• The Power of Locally Driven Narratives to Support and Sustain Climate Action
• Positively Life-Changing Stories Today, Intergenerational Climate Benefits Tomorrow
• Kembali Ke Hutan (Return to the Forest): Using Storytelling for Youth Engagement and Climate Action in Indonesia
• Let’s Go! Let’s Know! N*Gen as an EE Tool for Climate Education and Agency
• Rhythm and Glue: An Entertainment-Education Prototype for Climate Communication
• Rewrite the Future: Helping Hollywood Accelerate Climate Solutions through Storytelling
• LOLs: Secret Weapon Against CFCs and CO2?
• Climate Fiction to Inspire Green Actions: A Tale of Two Authors
• Visuals as a Catalyst for Climate Science Communication
• Music as a Vehicle for Climate Change Communication: The ClimateMusic Project
• Telling the Story of Climate Change through Food
• Three Ways to Introduce More Stories of Climate Action into Climate Change News Reporting
• Community-Based Resilience: The Influence of Collective Efficacy and Positive Deviance on Climate Change-Related Mental Health
• Mapping Out Our Future: Using Geospatial Tools and Visual Aids to Achieve Climate Empowerment in the United States
• Exploring Climate Science in the Metaverse: Interactive Storytelling in Immersive Environments for Deep Learning and Public Engagement
• Bird’s Eye View: Engaging Youth in Storying a Survivability Future through Performance and Interspecies Friendship
• Instructional Strategies for Climate Education in the Classroom: Storytelling about Our Place in the Earth System
• What We Need Now to Accelerate Climate Solutions through Storytelling
• Back Matter