Visualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover images

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dc.contributor.advisorRijsdijk, Ianen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorPasquini, Lorenaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorClaassens, Katrine Brinken_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-25T11:31:06Z
dc.date.available2016-07-25T11:31:06Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractClimate change is an increasingly urgent problem. How it is communicated and represented are of interest to those seeking to understand action or inaction on the issue. There is increasing interest on how it is being communicated visually. This research speaks to the growing body of literature on the visual communication of climate change in order to contribute to the wider critical literature addressing the role of images in the communication of climate change. It does so by considering a neglected site of climate change imagery: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) report covers. The IPCC's report covers from the first ones in 1990, to the latest ones of 2014, are investigated in this quantitative and qualitative case study where the subject matter, both literal and symbolic of this (hitherto unexamined) body of images, is interrogated. This dissertation sought to identify and investigate what, exactly, the IPCC is using to visually represent and communicate climate change outside the realm of its scientific graphs and diagrams. It sought to compare these findings with the larger lexicon of climate change imagery and look at how the IPCC negotiates the communicational and representational problems inherent in the visual communication of climate change. The question ultimately asked was whether the IPCC's cover images are effective representations of climate change. What was found was that the IPCC images departed significantly from standard climate imagery. The conclusions drawn from the initial content and thematic analysis was that the IPCC images are frequently too banal, bland and decontextualized to be effective representations or communicators of climate change but do offer some potentially effective avenues overlooked in other representations.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationClaassens, K. B. (2016). <i>Visualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover images</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20704en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationClaassens, Katrine Brink. <i>"Visualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover images."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20704en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationClaassens, K. 2016. Visualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover images. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Claassens, Katrine Brink AB - Climate change is an increasingly urgent problem. How it is communicated and represented are of interest to those seeking to understand action or inaction on the issue. There is increasing interest on how it is being communicated visually. This research speaks to the growing body of literature on the visual communication of climate change in order to contribute to the wider critical literature addressing the role of images in the communication of climate change. It does so by considering a neglected site of climate change imagery: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) report covers. The IPCC's report covers from the first ones in 1990, to the latest ones of 2014, are investigated in this quantitative and qualitative case study where the subject matter, both literal and symbolic of this (hitherto unexamined) body of images, is interrogated. This dissertation sought to identify and investigate what, exactly, the IPCC is using to visually represent and communicate climate change outside the realm of its scientific graphs and diagrams. It sought to compare these findings with the larger lexicon of climate change imagery and look at how the IPCC negotiates the communicational and representational problems inherent in the visual communication of climate change. The question ultimately asked was whether the IPCC's cover images are effective representations of climate change. What was found was that the IPCC images departed significantly from standard climate imagery. The conclusions drawn from the initial content and thematic analysis was that the IPCC images are frequently too banal, bland and decontextualized to be effective representations or communicators of climate change but do offer some potentially effective avenues overlooked in other representations. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - Visualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover images TI - Visualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover images UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20704 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/20704
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationClaassens KB. Visualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover images. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20704en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Environmental and Geographical Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherClimate Change and Sustainable Developmenten_ZA
dc.titleVisualising climate change: the case of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's cover imagesen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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