Contents

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Author Biographies

We are Climate Change: Climate Debates Between Transnational and Local Discourses

Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder

1

The Case of “Costa del Nuuk”: Greenlanders Make Sense of Global Climate Change

Freja C. Eriksen

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Communication and Knowledge Transfer on Climate Change in the Philippines

Thomas Friedrich

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Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The Role of Space in Media Reception

Imke Hoppe, Fenja De Silva-Schmidt, Michael Brüggemann, and Dorothee Arlt

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What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania

Sara de Wit

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Living on the Frontier: Laypeople’s Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh

Shameem Mahmud

209

Extreme Weather Events and Local Impacts of Climate Change: The Scientific Perspective

Friederike E. L. Otto

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List of Illustrations

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Index

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