TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiencing and managing uncertainty about climate change
AU - Norton, Todd
AU - Sias, Patty
AU - Brown, Shafer
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - This paper joins uncertainty management and problematic integration literatures to better understand how people experience and manage uncertainty about climate change. Interviews with 235 stakeholders from private, public, and non-profit organizations in the state of Washington indicate an interesting disparity of certainty and the role of climate-related information. A majority of participants (n = 137) were certain that energy use and climate change are related, and far fewer (n = 13) were certain that they are not related. Our interpretive analysis indicates notable differences regarding the way people experience and management uncertainty.
AB - This paper joins uncertainty management and problematic integration literatures to better understand how people experience and manage uncertainty about climate change. Interviews with 235 stakeholders from private, public, and non-profit organizations in the state of Washington indicate an interesting disparity of certainty and the role of climate-related information. A majority of participants (n = 137) were certain that energy use and climate change are related, and far fewer (n = 13) were certain that they are not related. Our interpretive analysis indicates notable differences regarding the way people experience and management uncertainty.
KW - Climate change
KW - Organizational communication
KW - Problematic integration
KW - Uncertainty management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960815739&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00909882.2011.585397
DO - 10.1080/00909882.2011.585397
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960815739
SN - 0090-9882
VL - 39
SP - 290
EP - 309
JO - Journal of Applied Communication Research
JF - Journal of Applied Communication Research
IS - 3
ER -