Join us for a special event featuring Professor Max Boykoff from the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado.
Discussions and deliberations about environmental issues in our lives at the science-policy-society interface can often get muddled, frustrating and stuck. In this session, he will highlight what kinds of climate communications work where, when, why, how, and under what conditions in efforts to enact productive and positive change. He will first touch on analyses of news-based communications about climate change, paying attention to how we access news and news literacy. Second, he will walk through exploration/experimentation with creative approaches to productively, positively, and powerfully advance climate change awareness, engagement and action with each other. Third, he will broaden out to larger, intersecting considerations of climate communications at multiple scales and contexts - including efforts to combat mis- and dis-information - that seek to more effectively influence our attitudes and behaviors regarding environment and sustainability.
Max is the inaugural Faculty Executive Director of the Buckley Center for Sustainability Education. Max is a Professor in the Environmental Studies department at the University of Colorado Boulder and is a Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. He has ongoing research interests in science and environmental communications, science-policy interactions, political economy, business and the environment (with negotiations, marketing and advertising concentrations). Max has experience working in several country contexts and is a co-author and editor of seven books and edited volumes, along with many articles, reports, and book chapters. He is currently working on a new book called ‘Climate Emergency: ‘Climate Emergency: Understanding What‘s Coming‘ with Cambridge University Press.