Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Social Nature of Animals in the ‘Staging’ of Climate Change The paper aims to open a discussion on the social nature of nonhuman animals in climate change, investigating how human communication practices interfere with how animals are conceived in the climate change debate and with their ability to deal with the upcoming challenges. Thus, in the first part, the work investigates how different animals, especially wild fauna, are used in communicating climate change, focusing on polar bears. In the second part, a focus on farm animals is provided, and in particular on pigs. This requires going beyond an anthropocentric perspective on climate change and identifying an integrative approach to the solutions to adopt.
Source: Geography Notebooks
Authors: Sara Bonati, Marco Tononi
Institutions: University of Genoa, University of Bergamo
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405949850