What is the future for public communications about waste and resources?
What is the future for public communications about waste and resources?
Contemporary society faces many pressing problems, of which the development of a sustainable approach to waste and resource management is just one. Enabling effective resource management requires active public engagement and motivation – alongside appropriate infrastructure and service provision - and this is hugely challenging. Many political, environmental, social, technological, legal and economic approaches have been trialled, but only slow progress has been achieved thus far in many settings. Communication is a vital tool for scientists’ findings to make some form of impact. Research around topics such as climate change, water pollution and food waste often needs to inspire changes in public knowledge and behaviour
to catalyse necessary, rapid public action.
Waste, Resources, public communication, Outreach, Sustainability
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Williams, Ian D.
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Shaw, Peter J.
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Williams, Ian D.
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Shaw, Peter J.
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Williams, Ian D. and Shaw, Peter J.
(2023)
What is the future for public communications about waste and resources?
Detritus, 24, .
(doi:10.31025/2611-4135/2023.18316).
Abstract
Contemporary society faces many pressing problems, of which the development of a sustainable approach to waste and resource management is just one. Enabling effective resource management requires active public engagement and motivation – alongside appropriate infrastructure and service provision - and this is hugely challenging. Many political, environmental, social, technological, legal and economic approaches have been trialled, but only slow progress has been achieved thus far in many settings. Communication is a vital tool for scientists’ findings to make some form of impact. Research around topics such as climate change, water pollution and food waste often needs to inspire changes in public knowledge and behaviour
to catalyse necessary, rapid public action.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 30 September 2023
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Waste, Resources, public communication, Outreach, Sustainability
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