ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is one of the difficulties in engaging people with climate change is due to its historical framing as an environmental issue, which has led to a separation of humans and culture from the environment. Mediating Climate Change examines a range of social and political actors involved in the communication and making meaningful of climate change, including scientists, civil society groups, mass media and artists. As such, knowledge and understanding of climate change is mediated through a range of social and discursive practices. Communication and action are related to the conceptions of nature, vision and time as they emerge within and across the disciplinary and institutional boundaries of environmental and scientific knowledge. Getting the balance right between communicating the dangers of climate change and engaging the public and politicians to act is a difficult one.
