Avoiding post-truth environmental conflict in New Zealand: communicating uncertainties in endangered species science

Palliser, Anna; Dodson, Giles

doi:10.22323/2.18040205

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“…Precautionary frames (associated with intergenerational equity) are based on a world‐view that preventative actions are essential for some forms of irreversible environmental threats based on the acceptance that there can never be sufficient scientific knowledge about their nature or impact (Bengtsson & Tillman, 2004; Tukker, 2002). Because precautionary frames help counter opposing arguments (Bengtsson & Tillman, 2004), it would be appropriate for marine conservation messages focused on irreversible threats, such as extinction risks of threatened marine species, which contain scientific uncertainty (Palliser & Dodson, 2019). Precautionary frames are also relevant for unpredictable threats that are not easily quantified or monitored; for example, the cumulative detrimental impacts in the deep ocean resulting from deep‐ocean mining (Mengerink et al, 2014) and subsequent consequences in the euphotic zone (where live‐generating photosynthesis occurs) resulting from sediment discharge and suspension (Frank, 1974).…”

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Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

Kolandai-Matchett

Armoudian

2020

Aquatic Conservation

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1. Human activities are a major source of threat to marine ecosystems. Solutions thus require changes to or cessation of those activities in addition to multiple restorative and conservation effortsall of which, in turn, require public support for success. However, scientific understanding of threats to marine ecosystems has not paralleled public understanding of those threats in many jurisdictions. Highly complex, interwoven, distant, vulnerable to multiple stressors, and hosting biota that are biologically unfamiliar to people, marine ecosystems present unique communication challenges. 2. The merits of effective communication capable of motivating behavioural change, policy action and support for marine conservation are often emphasized. To date, however, environmental communication, as a field, has largely focused on terrestrial ecosystems and more recently on climate change, leaving research-informed marine conservation communication neglected. 3. Adding to the small compilation of marine conservation communication literature, this integrative review provides a new understanding of how six message frames (emotional, problem/solution, outcome, value-based, distance, and social norm) can interactively help enhance the effectuality of conservation messages. Insights from the framing-related literature are merged with those from relevant fields including the theoretical literature, and the behavioural, social, and environmental sciences to define concepts, provide examples and explain the relevance of the six identified frames. The potential strength of these frames are discussed and suggestions on how they might be used to communicate different marine conservation issues are provided.

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Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

Kolandai-Matchett

Armoudian

2020

Aquatic Conservation

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“…Euphemisms and ambiguous language similarly obscure scientific realities and disconnect citizens from potential actions. For example, economic language ("natural capital", "natural assets", "stock", "maximum sustainable yield") within anthropocentric frames reduces the natural world to utilitarian resources (Palliser & Dodson, 2019). Terms such as "by-catch", or "the (foreseeable) killing of non-targeted wildlife" when capturing and killing commercial marine species, soften hard realities.…”

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The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy

Armoudian

Poulsen

2023

Journal of Political Ecology

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Why do conservation policies fail to prevent species extinctions and die-offs in contravention of stated intentions and goals? Bringing together a range of literature, including political ecology, political theory, conservation science, communication theory, environmental communication, with original data, this article explores this question, then addresses these failures within Aotearoa New Zealand's context. Using the New Zealand case, it offers a systems-level view of these failures, focusing on the influences and limitations that arise from the political-economic structures, fractured governance, interest group influence, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in representative democracies. Secondly, in these settings, we argue that communication and framing by the interested parties—politicians, government officials, interest groups and NGOs—buttress this system, partly by normalizing it, obscuring scientific realities, shifting focus away from deeper issues, and thus limiting the possibility of substantive solutions in what might be called a colonization of consciousness. Together, this economic-political-communication complex has failed to prevent—and in some ways aided—mass die-offs of native animal species. The article then suggests exploring alternative models, such as deliberative democracy, to this seemingly intractable problem, to strengthen the influence of scientific expertise, better inform decision-makers, advance public understandings of science, and improve democracy by engaging members of the public in decision-making processes. While this study focuses on New Zealand, the issues related to political ecology, the political-economic systems, and the framing of issues, apply to many democratic countries.

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“…This opportunity arises once the notion that scientific knowledge can solve, with certainty, all political problems is questioned. Among those who feel neglected by science, it can be included people who demand a form of science that establishes a dialog with society and includes diverse types of knowledge to inform political decisions (Jasanoff and Simmet, 2017;Palliser and Dodson, 2019;Manyweathers et al, 2020). Such a dialog, among other things, demands the recognition of consequences related to the links that science has established with technological markets (Cooper, 2008) and military investments (Mukerji, 2014).…”

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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era

Fernandes

2021

Front. Commun.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for science communication in terms of addressing the question of uncertainty and how it translates into risk. This task has been aggravated by the complexity of the pandemic and the current post-truth environment. The article suggests that there is a need to analyze the practices of correcting risk information that is uncertain, but not necessarily false, made by online news media about COVID-19. This is a point of analysis where the uncertainty and risk linked to science, the pandemic, and the post-truth condition meet. The qualitative discursive analysis yielded three important results: (1) uncertainty can be fought by increasing uncertainty; (2) a multiplication of facts or reasons may not be the most prominent strategy in practices of correction; and (3) the use of hyperlinks with additional information can increase uncertainty and risk.

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Avoiding post-truth environmental conflict in New Zealand: communicating uncertainties in endangered species science

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy

Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era

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