Images of climate change – a pilot study of young people’s perceptions of ICT-based climate visualization

Climatic Change

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 73-85

  Ballantyne, Anne Gammelgaard ^a,b   Wibeck, Victoria ^a   Neset, Tina Simone ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUALIZATION;

FOCUS GROUPS; IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS; MEANING MAKINGS; PILOT STUDIES; SWEDISHS; YOUNG PEOPLES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; PERCEPTION; STUDENT; VISUALIZATION; YOUNG POPULATION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84951568938     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1533-9     Document Type: Article

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