%0 Journal Article %T The challenges of communicating climate change %A Emiliano Feresin %J JCOM : Journal of Science Communication %D 2009 %I SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati %X The climate change issue has become increasingly present in our society in the last decade and central also to communication studies. In the e-book ¡°Communicating Climate Change: Discourses, Mediations and Perceptions¡±, edited by Anabela Carvalho, various scholars investigate how climate change challenges communication by looking at three main aspects: the discourses of a variety of social actors on climate change; the reconstruction of those discourses in the media; the citizens¡¯ perceptions, understandings and attitudes in relation to climate change. %K Science %K technology %K art and literature %U http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/08/02/Jcom0802%282009%29R01/Jcom0802%282009%29R01.pdf