Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change

Dag Avango, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University, Sweden Ralf Döscher, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden Per Högselius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Henry Huntington, Arctic Science Director for the Pew Charitable Trusts, USA Julia Lajus, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Annika E. Nilsson, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden Sverker Sörlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Nina Wormbs, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

List of illustrations List of maps List of tables Notes on the contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1. Globalization, Climate Change and the Media: An Introduction; Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson and Nina Wormbs 2. Arctic Climate Change and the Media: The News Story That Was; Miyase Christensen 3. Eyes on the ice: Satellite remote sensing and the narratives of visualized data; Nina Wormbs 4. An Ice Free Arctic Sea?: The Science of Sea Ice and Its Interests; Sverker Sorlin and Julia Lajus 5. Signals from a Noisy Region; Annika E. Nilsson and Ralf Doscher 6. A Question of Scale: Local versus Pan-Arctic Impacts from Sea Ice Change; Henry P. Huntington 7. Under the Ice: Exploring the Arctic's Energy Resources, 1898-1985; Dag Avango and Per Hogselius 8. Changing Arctic - Changing World; Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson and Nina Wormbs References