Major climate-change issues covered by the daily newspapers of Bangladesh

被引：18

作者：

Miah M.D. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kabir M.H. ^{[1
]}

Koike M. ^{[2
]}

Akther S. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong

[2] Forest Policy Laboratory, Shinshu University, Kami Ina Gun, Nagano-ken 399-4598

来源：

The Environmentalist | 2011年 / 31卷 / 1期

关键词：

Biodiversity; Forestry; Global warming; Natural disaster;

D O I：

10.1007/s10669-010-9305-6

中图分类号：

学科分类号：

摘要：

Communications research scholars, political scientists, and policy analysts have significantly recognized the role of news media in reporting and portraying public issues. Nowadays, climate change is an important global environmental concern for the world communities. Study on the media coverage of climate-change issues is vitally important to know the present situation of both the global and regional climate, as well as to assess the causes, mitigation and adaptation techniques, and its adverse impacts. This study demonstrates the coverage of newspapers in Bangladesh on climate change from May 2006 through June 2009 for the three most popular newspapers of Bangladesh, namely The Prothom Alo, The Daily Ittefaq, and The Daily Star. Natural disasters was the major climate-change issue that received the most coverage, along with agriculture, biodiversity, global warming, climate change, crime, water scarcity, food scarcity, politics, wetlands, tourisms, rivers, forestry and miscellaneous issues. Local communication concerned with climate-change issues was given preference in the coverage by the newspapers throughout the study period. The study will be useful for awareness-program formulation on climate-change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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页码：67 / 73

页数：6

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