Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate...

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Background
1. Climate Change Science: The Facts
2. Climate Change Attitudes and Knowledge
3. Climate Change Education Outcomes
4. Climate Change Education Vignettes
Part 1 Recap
Part 2: The Psychology of Climate Change
5. Identity
6. Psychological Distance
7. Other Psychological Theories
Part 2 Recap
Part 3: Communication
8. Framing Climate Change
9. Using Metaphor and Analogy in Climate ChangeCommunication
10. Climate Change Messengers: Establishing Trust
Part 3 Recap
Part 4: Stories from the Field
11. Climate Change Education at the Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California
12. Climate Change Literacy, Action, and Positive Youth Development in Kentucky
13. Building Soil to Capture Carbon in a School Garden in New Mexico
14. Psychological Resilience in Denver, Colorado
Part 4 Recap
Closing Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Communicating Climate Change provides a coherent explanation of effective climate change communication for practitioners. The vignettes offer excellent examples of environmental educators using these strategies to develop more helpful programs, share information about climate science, and empower people to adopt strategies to mitigate and adapt to change.

Environmental education is an eclectic set of pedagogical practices that attempt not only to change individual behaviors, but also to foster collective action, lifelong civic engagement, positive youth development, school achievement, and healthy individuals and communities. Because it addresses "wicked problems"—problems for which there is no single solution, such as the sustainability crisis or how to change deeply ingrained personal or cultural habits—the field benefits from exchanges among scholars and practitioners that lead to ongoing innovations in both theory and praxis. Cornell Seriesin Environmental Education integrates research and practical experience to address key challenges facing environmental educators including: how to conduct programs in cities, how to address climate change at the local and global level, and how to build a theory of change given multiple educational outcomes. Books in the series also use environmental education as a focal point for exploring issues of social innovation and leveraging new teaching methods for the public good. Series Editor: Marianne E. Krasny is Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Director of the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University. Her most recent books are Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up (with K. Tidball), Urban Environmental Education Review (with A. Russ), and Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology. She has served as lead instructor for multiple online courses, including Reclaiming Broken Places: Introduction to Civic Ecology edX MOOC and Environmental Education: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Addressing Wicked Problems, and was director of EPA's National Environmental Education Training Program. Dr. Krasny is a Public Voices Fellow with The Op-Ed Project and an International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. Please send inquiries to: Kitty Liu, Editor, Comstock Publishing Associates (email: khl8@cornell.edu / Twitter: @Kitty_H_Liu).