In recent years two crises have populated the imagination of publics: environmental crises,
ranging from, for example, water and air pollution to climate change, and the crisis of liberal …

Climate change poses a challenge to countries across the world, with news media being an
important source of information on the issue. To understand how and how much news media …

Environmental degradation stemming from the combustion of conventional energy sources
is not only a major factor behind climate change but it also poses an adverse impact on …

News organizations constitute key sites of science communication between experts and lay
audiences, giving many individuals their basic worldview of complex topics like climate …

Sentiment analysis has become a powerful tool in processing and analysing expressed
opinions on a large scale. While the application of sentiment analysis on English-language …

Environmental sociology is a growing field producing a diverse body of literature while also
moving into the mainstream of the larger discipline. The twin goals of this paper are to …

Wallace-Wells' more recent The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming (2020) describe in
tragic detail the extent of the ecological crisis which the world now faces. It is undeniably …

In this paper, we consider climate scepticism in the Russian context. We are interested in
whether this has been discussed within the social scientific literature and ask first whether …

Amid pressure for climate action worldwide, processes of deliberative democracy are being
called upon to address public policy complexities, include citizens in decision-making …

This paper explores the contribution of software-based tools that are increasingly used for
the semi-automated analysis of large volumes of text, especially Topic Modelling and …