Keywords
Climate Change
FR403
FR403
How to Cite
Megalos, Mark, Martha Monroe, and Claire Needham Bode. 2017. “Risk Perception and Needs: Defining Extension’s Climate Change Adaptation Role: FOR335/FR403, 4/2016”. EDIS 2017 (2). Gainesville, FL:7. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fr403-2016.
Abstract
Third in a series on climate change communication for Extension professionals, this 7-page fact sheet provides strategies for overcoming challenges in communicating about climate change. Written by Mark Megalos, Martha C. Monroe, and Claire Needham Bode, and published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, April 2016.
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Wear, D. N. 2011. "Forecasts of County-Level Land Uses under Three Future Scenarios: A Technical Document Supporting the Forest Service 2010 RPA Assessment." Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-141. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 41 p.
Westley, F., P. Olsson, C. Folke, T. Homer-Dixon, H. Vredenburg, D. Loorback, J. Thompson et al. 2011. "Tipping toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation. AMBIO. 40(7): 762-780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0186-9
Bartels, W. L., C. A. Furman, D. D. Diehl, F. S. Royce, D. R. Dourte, B. V. Ortiz, et al. 2012. "Warming up to climate change: A participatory approach to engaging with agricultural stakeholders in the Southeast US." Reg. Environ. Change 13 (S1): S45-S55 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-012-0371-9
Burkett, V., and M. Davidson (eds.). 2012. "Coastal Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: A Technical Input to the 2012 National Climate Assessment." Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment, pp. 150 http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~kossin/articles/NCA_Coasts.pdf https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-460-4
Butler, B. J., and S. M. Butler. 2016. "National Woodland Owner Survey, family forest ownerships (with 10 + forest acres) in North Carolina, 2011-2013." Res. Note _XX. Asheville, NC. U.S. Dept. of Agric, forest Service, Southern research Stations 2p. https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/rn/rn_nrs230.pdf https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RN-230
Epstein, S. 1994, "Integration of the Cognitive and the Psychodynamic Unconscious." Am. Psychol. 49: 709-724. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.49.8.709
Fischhoff, B. 2007. "Nonpersuasive Communication about Matters of Greatest Urgency: Climate Change." Environmental Science & Technology. 41(21): 7204-7208. https://doi.org/10.1021/es0726411
James, A., N. Estwick, and A. Bryant. 2014. "Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Their Effective Communication by Extension Agents." Journal of Extension. 52(1) Article 1COM2. http://www.joe.org/joe/2014february/comm2.php
Krantz, S. 2014. "Message Framing to Affect Forest Landowners' Intention to Adapt to Climate Change." Master thesis, University of Florida
Krantz, S., and M. C. Monroe. 2013 "Communicating Climate Change with Forest Landowners through Video." PINEMAP Research Summary. 2 p. http://www.pinemap.org/reports/annual-reports/year-3-annual-report-individual-articles/extension/Communicating_Climate_Change_with_Forest_Landowners_through_Video.pdf/?searchterm=communicating%20climate%20change%20with%20forest%20landowners%20through%20video
Leiserowitz, A. 2006. "Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values." Climatic Change 77 (1-2): 45-72 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9059-9
National Academy of Sciences. 2011. Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. Nat. Acad. Press. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id12877
Perez-Garcia, J., B. Lippke, J. Comnick, and C. Manriquez. 2005. "An Assessment of Carbon Pools, Storage, and Wood Products Market Substitution Using Life-Cycle Analysis Results." Wood Fiber Sci. 37(5):140-148.
Prasad, A. M., L. R. Iverson., S. Matthews., M. Peters. 2007-ongoing. A Climate Change Atlas for 134 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United States [database]. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/atlas/tree, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Delaware, Ohio.//www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12877
Rogers, E. M. 2003 Diffusion of Innovations 5th ed. Free Press, NY 551p.
Serakos, A., J. Bowyer, J. Howe, E. Pepke, S. Bratkovich, M. Frank, K. Fernholz. 2014. Understanding the Role and Findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dovetail Partners, Inc. Minneapolis, MN. http://www.dovetailinc. org/report_pdfs/2014/dovetailipcc0514.pdf
USDA. 2016. "Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate." http://animalagclimatechange.org/
USDA Forest Service. 2012. "Future of America's Forest and Rangelands: Forest Service 2010 Resources Planning Act Assessment." Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-87. Washington, DC.
University of South Carolina, Social and Environmental Research Institute, Carolinas Integrated Science and Assessments, and SC Sea Grant Consortium. 2011. Diagramming Climate Change-Related Vulnerability- Consequence Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS):A facilitation guide and tutorial. http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/geog/research/cisa/Pubs_Presentations_Posters/Reports/2011_Tuler%20et%20al_VCAPS%20facilitation%20guide%20and%20tutorial.pdf
Vose, J. M.; D. L. Peterson; and T. Patel-Weynand, eds. 2012. Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Forest Ecosystems: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis for the U.S. Forest Sector. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-870. Portland, OR: United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-870
Walthall, C. L., J Hatfield, P Backlund, L Lengnick, E. Marshall, M. Walsh, S. Adkins et al. 2012. "Climate change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation." USDA Technical Bulletin 1935. Washington DC. 186 pages. Available online at https://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/effects_2012/CC%20and%20Agriculture%20Report%20(02-04-2013)b.pdf
Wear, D. N. 2011. "Forecasts of County-Level Land Uses under Three Future Scenarios: A Technical Document Supporting the Forest Service 2010 RPA Assessment." Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-141. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 41 p.
Westley, F., P. Olsson, C. Folke, T. Homer-Dixon, H. Vredenburg, D. Loorback, J. Thompson et al. 2011. "Tipping toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation. AMBIO. 40(7): 762-780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0186-9