Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication

The Global Challenges of Covid-19 and Climate Change
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-48340-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Earthscan Risk in Society

This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change.

Our media spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about what we should or should not be doing to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Although the ability of risk communication to ‘responsibilise’ the public is central to its functioning in our societies, this aspect has so far been under-investigated in academia. To address this lacuna, Antoinette Fage-Butler develops a discursive approach to risk communication that focuses on the values that are communicated in risk messages. Examples of official risk communication about the pandemic and climate change from national and transnational contexts are analysed and compared, leading to new empirical findings and theoretical insights about the nature of risk and responsibilisation. Fage-Butler also builds on recent stirrings in the evolving field of risk communication that highlight the importance of cultural and value-related factors. Overall, this book will equip researchers with an approach to risk communication that reflects the complexity of today’s global risk challenges.

Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk communication, public health and environmental studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fage-Butler, Antoinette

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents

  Introduction

2.     Global risks

3.     Responsibilisation and risk

4.     Pandemic risk communication

5.     Climate change risk communication

6.     Risk communication for responsible action

7.     Conclusion

  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antoinette Fage-Butler is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests include risk, trustworthiness and cultural aspects of risk communication about health and climate change. She is currently the PI of the (Mis)trust of Scientific Expertise group which explores public trust in vaccine and climate science. She was awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Fellowship to write this research monograph.