Bruine de Bruin, W orcid.org/0000-0002-1601-789X and Morgan, MG (2019) Reflections on an interdisciplinary collaboration to inform public understanding of climate change, mitigation, and impacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (16). pp. 7676-7683. ISSN 0027-8424
Abstract
We describe two interdisciplinary projects in which natural scientists and engineers, as well as psychologists and other behavioral scientists, worked together to better communicate about climate change, including mitigation and impacts. One project focused on understanding and informing public perceptions of an emerging technology to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, as well as other low-carbon electricity-generation technologies. A second project focused on public understanding about carbon dioxide’s residence time in the atmosphere. In both projects, we applied the mental-models approach, which aims to design effective communications by using insights from interdisciplinary teams of experts and mental models elicited from intended audience members. In addition to summarizing our findings, we discuss the process of interdisciplinary collaboration that we pursued in framing and completing both projects. We conclude by describing what we think we have learned about the conditions that supported our ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019. In order to comply with the publisher requirements the University does not require the author to sign a nonexclusive licence for this paper. This is an author produced version of a paper published in PNAS. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | risk perception; risk communication; science communication; mental models; climate change |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Decision Research (LUBS) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Riksbankens Jubileumsfond M14-0138:1 National Science Foundation 47.075 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2018 12:10 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | National Academy of Sciences |
Identification Number: | 10.1073/pnas.1803726115 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137186 |