[ecrea] The Media and the Environment: between complexity and urgency

The Media and the Environment: between complexity and urgency

International Conference

2-3 April 2009, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal



More information available at: http://www.ics.ul.pt/instituto/ev/meenv/




Programme


  Thursday, 2 April 2009

9:00 ? Registration


  9:30-10:30 - Opening Session


Emílio Rui Vilar, President, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
Manuel Villaverde Cabral, President, Instituto de 
Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

«Caught Between Complexity and Urgency: 
Responsible Media Reporting in an Age of Uncertainty»
Keynote speaker: Jacqueline McGlade, Executive 
Director, European Environment Agency (EEA)

10:30-11:00 ? Coffee break

10:30 ? 11:15 - EEA media briefing: preview of ?Late Lessonsfrom
  Early Warnings?, Vol. 2, EEA, autumn, 2009 (Room 2)


  11:00-13:30 - 1st Panel: Pressures and Powers=


«Global climate change in the German media: 
legitimizing climate policy ? but strongly enough?»
Speaker: Hans Peter Peters, Researcher, Helmholtz 
Center Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

«Climate change as a rhetorical resource and ?masterframe?;»
Speaker: Massimiano Bucchi, Professor, Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Debater: Francisco Pinto Balsemão, President, Impresa, Portugal
Debater: Carlos Pimenta, Former Secretary of State for Environment, Portugal

Moderator: Pavel Antonov, Chief Editor, ?Green Horizon?, Hungary
Rapporteur: Timothy O?Riordan, Professor, 
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

13:30- 14:45 - Lunch


  14:45-17:15 ? 2nd Panel: Routines and Constraints


«Communicating the environment: news values, 
media organisations, journalistic practices and 
the production of environmental news»
Speaker: Anders Hansen, Deputy Director of the 
Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

«?It?s not our job to save the world?: The 
cultural politics of climate change and broadcast media»
Speaker: Joe Smith, Professor, The Open University, United Kingdom

Debater: Frank McDonald, Environment Editor, ?Irish Times?7;, Ireland
Debater: David Earnshaw, Chairman, Burson-Marsteller Brussels, Belgium

Moderator: José Manuel Fernandes, Director, ?Público?, Portugal
Rapporteur: Anabela Carvalho, Professor, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

17:15 ? 17:30 Coffee Break


  17:30 ? 18:30 ? Lecture


«Complexity, New Media, and Contested Knowledge Claims: Climate Change in 2009»
Keynote speaker: Robert Cox, Professor, The 
University of North Carolina and President, Board 
of Directors, Sierra Club, USA



  Friday, 3 April 2009


  9:00 ? 13:00 - Workshop on ?early warners? and late sceptics


The challenges and controversies of ?early warners??

Case studies, ?early warners?:
a)    Lead in petrol, David Gee, Project Manager,EEA
b)    Electromagnetic fields, Louis Slesin, Editor, ?Microwave News?, USA
c)    GMOs, Arpad Putzai, Former Professor, 
Aberdeen University, United Kingdom

How can society help to encourage and protect ?early warners?;?
Annegret Falter, The German Award for ?Whistleblowing?7; Scientists

10:30 ? 10:45 ? Coffee-break




How can the media better report on scientific controversies: ?latesceptics??

Case study, ?late sceptics?
d)    Climate change, Joe Smith, Professor, The Open University, United Kingdom

Responses from journalists:

Pavel Antonov, Editor, ?Green Horizon?, Hungary
Geoff Lean, Environment Editor, ?The Independent?, United Kingdom
Alex Kirby, Former Environment Correspondent, 
British Broadcasting Corporation News, United Kingdom
Paul Brown, Former Environment Correspondent, ?The Guardian217;, United Kingdom
Virgílio de Azevedo, Main Reporter, ?Expresso?, Portugal
Ricardo Garcia, Environmental Journalist, ?Publico?7;, Portugal
Francesca Polini, Former Media Director, Greenpeace, United Kingdom

Moderator: David Gee, Project Manager, EEA
Rapporteur of the workshop: Teresa Ribeiro, Head 
of Group, StrategicFutures, EEA

13:00 ? 14:30 ? Lunch


  14:30 ? 17:00 - 3rd Panel: Discourses, Images and Formats


«Environmental news on television and its reception by the public»
Speaker: Suzanne de Cheveigné, Researcher, Centre 
National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

«Who speaks for the environment? Exploring 
interactions between mass media and cultural politics»
Speaker: Maxwell T. Boykoff, Professor, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Debater: Francesca Polini, Former Media Director, Greenpeace, USA
Debater: Christian Vélot, Professor, Université Paris-Sud XI, France

Moderator: Paul Brown, Former Environment 
Correspondent, ?The Guardian?, United Kingdom
Rapporteur: Jacquie Burgess, Professor and Head 
of School, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

17:00 ? 17:15h - Coffee Break


  17:15 ? 18:00 ? Conclusions


Rapporteur 1st session: Timothy O?Riordan, 
Professor, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Rapporteur 2nd session: Anabela Carvalho, 
Professor, Universidade doMinho, Portugal
Rapporteur 3rd session: Jacquie Burgess, 
Professor and Head of School, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom



  18:00 ? 18:30 - Closing Session

Recommendations towards an agenda of research and capacity building

Presenter: David Gee, Project Manager, EEA
Presenter: Luisa Schmidt, Researcher, Instituto 
de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Presenter: Viriato Soromenho-Marques, Professor, 
Universidade de Lisboa and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
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