{"id":785,"date":"2024-02-22T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/?p=785"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:15:41","slug":"a-distant-threat-the-framing-of-climate-futures-across-four-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"A Distant Threat? The Framing of Climate Futures Across Four Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background\">Future scenarios of a changing climate are not only an integral part of climate research, but they are also part of media coverage on climate change. Such reporting affects how people imagine the future to be, as well as their current and intended behaviors. Hence, this article made use of a quantitative, manual content analysis with qualitative and automated approaches for sample construction, to analyze the framing of climate futures in journalistic media across four countries (Germany, India, South Africa, and the United States; <em>n<\/em>\u2009=\u20091 010). Four frames were identified: \u201cSolutions to climatic and social consequences\u201d, \u201cDistant threats to humanity\u201d, \u201cEconomic opportunities\u201d, and \u201cDistant threats to ecosystems\u201d \u2013 these frames describe different climate futures, with only a few differences between Global North and Global South countries. Implications for climate change communication will be discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bruegge.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GuentherMeyerKleinenvon-KonigslowBruggemann_blinded1-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bruegge.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/A-Distant-Threat-Supplementary-Material.docx.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOWNLOAD (Supplementary Material)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Guenther, L. \/ &nbsp;Meyer, H. \/ &nbsp;Kleinen-von K\u00f6nigsl\u00f6w, K. \/ Br\u00fcggemann, M. (2023). A Distant Threat? The Framing of Climate Futures Across Four Countries. <em>Environmental Communication, 17<\/em>(7), 775\u2013793. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17524032.2023.2253500.\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17524032.2023.2253500.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Future scenarios of a changing climate are not only an integral part of climate research, but they are also part of media coverage on climate change. Such reporting affects how people imagine the future to be, as well as their current and intended behaviors. Hence, this article made use of a quantitative, manual content &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/?p=785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Distant Threat? The Framing of Climate Futures Across Four Countries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruegge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}