The project intends to explore the relationship between media and climate change with a focus on the information needs of the coastal communities. The project activities in the form of small sensitization workshops and community outreach campaigns will help the coastal community to understand the impact of climate change on coastal ecologies. The communication and outreach activities will help the state and private development agencies and the opinion leaders of the coastal communities to expand their understanding and awareness of macro and micro ecological interventions in terms of economic stability, climate resilience and maintaining the coastal biodiversity. The activities can play a significant role by acting as a source of awareness, advocacy and policy change.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to ensure an active and engaged citizenry at local level. The discourse will be on exploring the expanded role of communication outreach in increasing the ability of local people of coastal communities to connect with one another, and to engage directly on advocacy and policy issues.
The planned communication and outreach activities will be centered on coastal communities and awareness and sensitization messages will be used to encourage citizen action through outreach campaigns on coastal climate issues.
- The project will help the climate experts and policy makers to understand how community outreach situates itself in the large realm of public and civic communications at local level.
- It will deepen the understating of the coastal community about the relationship between communication and civic engagement in local governance.
- The project activities will help the coastal community people to explore their information needs about climate change and will help them to develop a clear perception about climate change by using their considerable public trust to build local acceptance of climate change through small narratives.
Main Contact:
Professor Pradeep Nair, Future Earth Coasts Fellow/Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India
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