Communicating environmental geoscience
By: edited by D.G.E. Liverman, C.P.G. Pereira, and B. Marker.
Contributors: Liverman, D. G. E. 1956-; Pereira, C. P. G.; Marker, Brian.; Geological Society of London.
Series: Geological Society special publication -- no. 305; Geological Society special publication -- no. 305.
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781862392601
Subjects: Communication in geology; Natural disasters; Land use, Urban -- Environmental aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Communicating environmental geoscience : introduction / Dave Liverman, Christopher P.G. Pereira and Brian Marker; title: Altered priorities ahead; or how to develop fruitful relationships with the media / Ted Nield; title: Media and scientific communication: a case of climate change / Maxwell T. Boykoff; title: Good and bad practice in the communication of uncertainties associated with the relationship between climate change and weather-related natural disasters / Robert E.T. Ward; title: Community participation in natural risk prevention: case histories from Colombia / M. Hermelin and G. Bedoya; title: Guidelines for landslide hazard mapping in the Andes: speaking one language; title: Lead contamination, the media and risk communication: a case study from the Ribeira Valley, Brazil; title: Communicating uncertainty in climate-change adaptation and decision support; further development of the Gdańsk case study / Philipp Schmidt-Thomé and Dorota Kaulbarsz; title: GeoSure; a bridge between geology and decision-makers / Jennifer C. Walsby; title: The modelling and visualization of digital geoscientific data as a communication aid to land-use planning in the urban environment: an example from the Thames Gateway / K.R. Royse, H.J. Reeves and A.R. Gibson; title: Communication in geology : a personal perspective and lessons from volcanic, mining, exploration, geotechnical, police and geoforensic investigations / Laurance J. Donnelly; title: Hazard and vulnerability assessment and adaptive planning : mutual and multilateral community-researcher communication, Arctic Canada / Norm R. Catto and Kathleen Parewick; title: Communicating geoscience to indigenous people: examples from the Solomon Islands / M.G. Petterson, D. Tolia, S.J. Cronin and R. Addison; title: Framing volcanic risk communication within disaster risk reduction : finding ways for the social and physical sciences to work together; title: Communicating environmental geoscience; Australian communication pathways / Colin J. Simpson; title: Communication of geoscience information in public administration : UK experiences / Brian Marker OBE; title: Environmental geoscience; communication challenges / David G.E. Liverman.