Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH), CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York City, New York, USA.
Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research (PHICOR), CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York City, New York, USA.
J Health Commun. 2024 Jun 3;29(sup1):77-88. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2024.2361842. Epub 2024 Jun 6.
Over the past sixty years, scientists have been warning about climate change and its impacts on human health, but evidence suggests that many may not be heeding these concerns. This raises the question of whether new communication approaches are needed to overcome the unique challenges of communicating what people can do to slow or reverse climate change. To better elucidate the challenges of communicating about the links between human activity, climate change and its effects, and identify potential solutions, we developed a systems map of the factors and processes involved based on systems mapping sessions with climate change and communication experts. The systems map revealed 27 communication challenges such as "Limited information on how individual actions contribute to collective human activity," "Limited information on how present activity leads to long-term effects," and "Difficult to represent and communicate complex relationships." The systems map also revealed several themes among the identified challenges that exist in communicating about climate change, including a lack of available data and integrated databases, climate change disciplines working in silos, a need for a lexicon that is easily understood by the public, and the need for new communication strategies to describe processes that take time to manifest.
在过去的六十年中，科学家们一直在警告气候变化及其对人类健康的影响，但有证据表明，许多人可能没有关注这些问题。这就提出了一个问题，即是否需要新的沟通方法来克服沟通人们为减缓或扭转气候变化可以采取的措施所面临的独特挑战。为了更好地阐明沟通人类活动、气候变化及其影响之间的联系以及确定潜在解决方案的挑战，我们根据气候变化和传播专家的系统映射会议，开发了一个涉及因素和过程的系统图。该系统图揭示了 27 种沟通挑战，例如“关于个人行动如何有助于集体人类活动的信息有限”、“关于当前活动如何导致长期影响的信息有限”和“难以表示和传达复杂关系”。该系统图还揭示了在气候变化传播中存在的几个主题，包括缺乏可用数据和综合数据库、气候变化学科各自为政、需要一个公众易于理解的词汇，以及需要新的沟通策略来描述需要时间才能显现的过程。
