[url=http://www.griffith.edu.au/research/research-excellence/griffith-climate-change-response-program/griffith-climate-change-public-seminar-series/program]Griffith University Climate Change Seminars[/url]
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Encountering climate change: is seeing believing?
31 January 2013
Summary – Australia’s most in-depth national survey examining public risk perceptions and understandings about climate change took place in 2010 and 2011. One of the most intriguing and possibly important findings of the survey was the significance and influence of perceived direct experiences with environmental changes or events which respondents thought might well be due to climate change. Professor Joseph Reser presents an overview of key findings from this research including possible explanations and implications relating to public understandings psychological adaptation and inter-relationships between direct and virtual exposure and experience with climate change and natural disasters.
Speaker – Professor Joseph Reser School of Applied Psychology Griffith University
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Panelist – Professor Donald Hine PhD School of Behavioural Cognitive and Social Sciences University of New England
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Panelist – Dr Elizabeth (Eshana) Bragg Director Sustainable Futures Australia; Assistant Academic Director SIT Study Abroad: Sustainability and Environmental Action
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