2134/5980
Tim Brown
Tim
Brown
Lucy Budd
Lucy
Budd
Morag Bell
Morag
Bell
Helen Rendell
Helen
Rendell
The local impact of global climate change: reporting on landscape transformation and threatened identity in the English regional newspaper press
Loughborough University
2010
Climate change
Global warming
Regional newspapers
Landscape
Identity
Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified
2010-03-09 12:25:05
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/The_local_impact_of_global_climate_change_reporting_on_landscape_transformation_and_threatened_identity_in_the_English_regional_newspaper_press/9480947
This paper contributes to extant understandings of media representations of climate change
by examining the role of the English regional newspaper press in the transformation and
dissemination of climate change discourse. Unlike previous accounts, we contend that such
newspapers shape public understandings of climate change in ways that have yet to be
adequately charted. With this in mind, this paper examines the ways in which global climate
change is translated into a locally relevant phenomenon. That is, it focuses on its
‘domestication’. Although we acknowledge that there are a number of ways in which this
process occurs, specific attention is drawn to stories that highlight the destruction of local
landscape features, the transformation of important habitats, and the arrival of 'alien' species.
The broader significance of such stories is considered in relation to long-standing debates
concerning the importance of landscape to notions of national and regional identity.