Susanne C Moser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1574094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne C Moser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne C |
| FAMILY NAME | Moser |
| SIGNATURE | MOSER S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6375-895X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 455 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Transformative labor: The hidden (and not-so-hidden) work of transformations to sustainability
Embracing climate emotions to advance higher education
Transformative climate adaptation in the United States: Trends and prospects
Adapting to the new normal Successfully responding to the impacts of climate change will be a challenge for many communities, especially cities. Considering the situation in the United States, Shi and Moser examine how stakeholders can help to build urban resilience even in the absence of federal leadership. They discuss how local and state governments, private industry, and civil society can engage to adapt to the extreme weather events and othe…
The Pluriversity for Stuck Humxns: A Queer EcoPedagogy & Decolonial School
The turbulent world of resilience: Interpretations and themes for transdisciplinary dialogue
The work after “It's too late” (to prevent dangerous climate change)
The fact that the question “Is it too late (to prevent dangerous climate change”)? is being debated in serious science circles constitutes a culturally significant moment. This article does not offer a simplistic answer to “is it too late – or not?”, but explores the uncomfortable space of denying neither endings nor possibilities. In so doing, it asks readers to witness and engage with what appears to be a serious psychological and cultural stru…
Adaptation finance archetypes: Local Governments' Persistent Challenges of Funding Adaptation to Climate Change and Ways to Overcome Them
Moser, S. C., J. A. Ekstrom, J. Kim, and S. Heitsch. 2019. Adaptation finance archetypes: local governments’ persistent challenges of funding adaptation to climate change and ways to overcome them. Ecology and Society 24(2):28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10980-240228
Climate Change Communication
Effective climate change communication is a central concern for geographers and others wishing to convey the science and impacts of climate change to lay publics, policymakers, and managers, and to engage in meaningful discourse on response options. The interdisciplinary field of climate change communication has grown rapidly since the early 2000s, with major research foci on messaging, language, and imagery; messengers; communication channels; t…
Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research
The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, however, will require massive upscaling of research that can rapidly enhance learning about transformations. Ten essentials for guiding action-oriented transformation and energy research are therefore presented, framed in relation to…
Becoming homo sapiens sapiens: Mapping the psycho-cultural transformation in the anthropocene
Evaluation that counts: A review of climate change adaptation indicators & metrics using lessons from effective evaluation and science-practice interaction
Can science on transformation transform science? Lessons from co-design
Increasingly, ‘co-design’ is a key concept and approach in global change and sustainability research, in the scholarship on science–policy interactions, and an expressed expectation in research programs and initiatives. This paper situates co-design and then synthesizes insights from real-life experiences of co-developing research projects in this Special Issue. It highlights common co-design elements (parameters and considerations of co-design a…
Reflections on climate change communication research and practice in the second decade of the 21st century: What more is there to say
Appreciable advances have been made in recent years in raising climate change awareness and enhancing support for climate and energy policies. There also has been considerable progress in understanding of how to effectively communicate climate change. This progress raises questions about the future directions of communication research and practice. What more is there to say? Through a selective literature review, focused on contributions since a …
Communicating adaptation to climate change: The art and science of public engagement when climate change comes home
This article synthesizes relevant literature and examples from practice to examine what is known to date about communicating climate change adaptation. It explores the language used to discuss adaptation, what is known about resonant frames, drawing on adaptation discourses in policy, practice, and the media. Identifying trends and widely applicable insights is made challenging not only by the variety of words used to speak of adaptation, but by …
Barbara Holland-Cunz, Gefährdete Freiheit. Über Hannah Arendt und Simone de Beauvoir
Climate Change: New Dimensions in Disaster Risk, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Resilience
Disaster signifies extreme impacts suffered when hazardous physical events interact with vulnerable social conditions to severely alter the normal functioning of a community or a society (high confidence). Social vulnerability and exposure are key determinants of disaster risk and help explain why non-extreme physical events and chronic hazards can also lead to extreme impacts and disasters, while some extreme events do not. Extreme impacts on hu…
Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science‐Action Gap
This article explains the behaviour of communications that have been taking place in the context of climate change and how fruitful they have been so far. It states that important insights can be gained from better understanding the way climate change has been communicated to date and how this communication has been received and interpreted. This article reveals further that communication of climate change has been less effective than one might w…
Taking ownership of climate change: Participatory adaptation planning in two local case studies from California
Interest in adaptation among local and state governments in the USA is on a steep incline since about 2007. Yet, place-specific vulnerability and adaptation research in the USA is still sparse, the public in many regions is still skeptical about the reality of climate change, and model adaptation planning processes are not well-known among practitioners. Against this backdrop of growing interest in adaptation, there is a great need to chronicle a…
Individual understandings, perceptions, and engagement with climate change: Insights from in‐depth studies across the world
Public understandings and perceptions of, as well as engagement with, climate change have garnered the interest of research and policy for almost three decades. A portion of this growing body of literature examines such perceptions in‐depth, using largely qualitative methodologies, such as personal interviews, limited sample size surveys, focus groups, and case studies. This area of research has been conducted on different continents, with indivi…
Dismantling the Ivory Tower: Engaging Geographers in University–Community Partnerships
University–community partnerships offer synergistic spaces for communities to address difficulties and universities to meet their missions. Geographers are well positioned to participate in these partnerships, owing to the discipline's integrative nature, spatial perspectives and analytic approaches, and its attention to social and environmental issues at many scales. This paper endeavours to assist geographers interested in these partnerships by…
A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation
This article presents a systematic framework to identify barriers that may impede the process of adaptation to climate change. The framework targets the process of planned adaptation and focuses on potentially challenging but malleable barriers. Three key sets of components create the architecture for the framework. First, a staged depiction of an idealized, rational approach to adaptation decision-making makes up the process component. Second, a…
Communicating climate change: History, challenges, process and future directions
Since anthropogenic climate change first emerged on the public agenda in the mid‐to‐late 1980s, public communication of climate change and—more recently—the question of how to communicate it most effectively have witnessed a steep rise. This paper synthesizes what is known, presumed, and still unknown about how to effectively communicate this problem. An introductory historical overview of climate change communication is followed by a discussion …
More than information: What coastal managers need to plan for climate change
Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change
The need for effective communication, public outreach and education to increase support for policy, collective action and behaviour change is ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating…
In the Long Shadows of Inaction: The Quiet Building of a Climate Protection Movement in the United States
Many observers perceive the US as an obstructionist force in global efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions. Federal leadership—despite rhetoric—remains absent even as the scientific consensus about the urgency of climate change and public acceptance of the reality of the problem are growing. This situation has created fertile ground for bottom-up political mobilization and action to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Using a…
Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships
Communicating climate change: History, challenges, process and future directions
Since anthropogenic climate change first emerged on the public agenda in the mid‐to‐late 1980s, public communication of climate change and—more recently—the question of how to communicate it most effectively have witnessed a steep rise. This paper synthesizes what is known, presumed, and still unknown about how to effectively communicate this problem. An introductory historical overview of climate change communication is followed by a discussion …
Individual understandings, perceptions, and engagement with climate change: Insights from in‐depth studies across the world
Public understandings and perceptions of, as well as engagement with, climate change have garnered the interest of research and policy for almost three decades. A portion of this growing body of literature examines such perceptions in‐depth, using largely qualitative methodologies, such as personal interviews, limited sample size surveys, focus groups, and case studies. This area of research has been conducted on different continents, with indivi…
Reflections on climate change communication research and practice in the second decade of the 21st century: What more is there to say
Appreciable advances have been made in recent years in raising climate change awareness and enhancing support for climate and energy policies. There also has been considerable progress in understanding of how to effectively communicate climate change. This progress raises questions about the future directions of communication research and practice. What more is there to say? Through a selective literature review, focused on contributions since a …
Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research
The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, however, will require massive upscaling of research that can rapidly enhance learning about transformations. Ten essentials for guiding action-oriented transformation and energy research are therefore presented, framed in relation to…
More than information: What coastal managers need to plan for climate change
Responding to Climate Change: Governance and Social Action beyond Kyoto
It has become an accepted wisdom within academic circles and policy discourse that climate change is a global problem in need of global solutions. More than a decade after the formation of the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol was ratiaed by a sufacient number of states to come into effect in February 2005. Strenuous international negotiations have led to the development of important structures and processes to govern reductions in greenhouse gas emissi…
Communicating adaptation to climate change: The art and science of public engagement when climate change comes home
This article synthesizes relevant literature and examples from practice to examine what is known to date about communicating climate change adaptation. It explores the language used to discuss adaptation, what is known about resonant frames, drawing on adaptation discourses in policy, practice, and the media. Identifying trends and widely applicable insights is made challenging not only by the variety of words used to speak of adaptation, but by …
Impact assessments and policy responses to sea-level rise in three US states: An exploration of human-dimension uncertainties
Can science on transformation transform science? Lessons from co-design
Increasingly, ‘co-design’ is a key concept and approach in global change and sustainability research, in the scholarship on science–policy interactions, and an expressed expectation in research programs and initiatives. This paper situates co-design and then synthesizes insights from real-life experiences of co-developing research projects in this Special Issue. It highlights common co-design elements (parameters and considerations of co-design a…
The work after “It's too late” (to prevent dangerous climate change)
The fact that the question “Is it too late (to prevent dangerous climate change”)? is being debated in serious science circles constitutes a culturally significant moment. This article does not offer a simplistic answer to “is it too late – or not?”, but explores the uncomfortable space of denying neither endings nor possibilities. In so doing, it asks readers to witness and engage with what appears to be a serious psychological and cultural stru…
Dismantling the Ivory Tower: Engaging Geographers in University–Community Partnerships
University–community partnerships offer synergistic spaces for communities to address difficulties and universities to meet their missions. Geographers are well positioned to participate in these partnerships, owing to the discipline's integrative nature, spatial perspectives and analytic approaches, and its attention to social and environmental issues at many scales. This paper endeavours to assist geographers interested in these partnerships by…
Reflections on a Discipline-wide Project: Developing active learning modules on the human dimensions of global change
Developing Active Learning Modules on the Human Dimensions of Global Change was a four-year discipline-wide project that aimed to infuse current scholarship on global change into introductory and intermediate university courses, develop active learning materials on the human dimensions of global change for use in introductory and intermediate college courses, motivate faculty to think critically about their approaches to teaching and learning, an…
Becoming homo sapiens sapiens: Mapping the psycho-cultural transformation in the anthropocene
In the Long Shadows of Inaction: The Quiet Building of a Climate Protection Movement in the United States
Many observers perceive the US as an obstructionist force in global efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions. Federal leadership—despite rhetoric—remains absent even as the scientific consensus about the urgency of climate change and public acceptance of the reality of the problem are growing. This situation has created fertile ground for bottom-up political mobilization and action to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Using a…
Taking ownership of climate change: Participatory adaptation planning in two local case studies from California
Interest in adaptation among local and state governments in the USA is on a steep incline since about 2007. Yet, place-specific vulnerability and adaptation research in the USA is still sparse, the public in many regions is still skeptical about the reality of climate change, and model adaptation planning processes are not well-known among practitioners. Against this backdrop of growing interest in adaptation, there is a great need to chronicle a…
Adaptation finance archetypes: Local Governments' Persistent Challenges of Funding Adaptation to Climate Change and Ways to Overcome Them
Moser, S. C., J. A. Ekstrom, J. Kim, and S. Heitsch. 2019. Adaptation finance archetypes: local governments’ persistent challenges of funding adaptation to climate change and ways to overcome them. Ecology and Society 24(2):28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10980-240228
Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA
Mary Evans, Simone de Beauvoir. Ein feministischer Mandarin
Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance
Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents top science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of gov…
Reflections on a Discipline-wide Project: Developing active learning modules on the human dimensions of global change
Developing Active Learning Modules on the Human Dimensions of Global Change was a four-year discipline-wide project that aimed to infuse current scholarship on global change into introductory and intermediate university courses, develop active learning materials on the human dimensions of global change for use in introductory and intermediate college courses, motivate faculty to think critically about their approaches to teaching and learning, an…
Making Climate HOT
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLisa DillingSusanne C. Moser is a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Change's Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE) in Boulder, CO. She is a geographer by training, and her research foci for the last 10 years have been the human dimensions of global change. Her current research interests include effective climate change communication and social change, interacti…
Sonia Kruks, Retrieving Experience. Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics
Impact assessments and policy responses to sea-level rise in three US states: An exploration of human-dimension uncertainties
Talk of the city: Engaging urbanites on climate change
Climate change requires societal engagement on both mitigation and adaptation. With a growing majority of people living in cities, urban dwellers and municipal decision-makers will need to reduce their emissions and other impacts on the regional and global climate while dealing with the unavoidable near-term and potential longer-term impacts of climate change. To facilitate effective societal response to climate change, a busy, distracted, and so…
Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change
The need for effective communication, public outreach and education to increase support for policy, collective action and behaviour change is ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating…
In the Long Shadows of Inaction: The Quiet Building of a Climate Protection Movement in the United States
Many observers perceive the US as an obstructionist force in global efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions. Federal leadership—despite rhetoric—remains absent even as the scientific consensus about the urgency of climate change and public acceptance of the reality of the problem are growing. This situation has created fertile ground for bottom-up political mobilization and action to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Using a…
Responding to Climate Change: Governance and Social Action beyond Kyoto
It has become an accepted wisdom within academic circles and policy discourse that climate change is a global problem in need of global solutions. More than a decade after the formation of the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol was ratiaed by a sufacient number of states to come into effect in February 2005. Strenuous international negotiations have led to the development of important structures and processes to govern reductions in greenhouse gas emissi…
Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships
More than information: What coastal managers need to plan for climate change
Communicating climate change: History, challenges, process and future directions
Since anthropogenic climate change first emerged on the public agenda in the mid‐to‐late 1980s, public communication of climate change and—more recently—the question of how to communicate it most effectively have witnessed a steep rise. This paper synthesizes what is known, presumed, and still unknown about how to effectively communicate this problem. An introductory historical overview of climate change communication is followed by a discussion …
A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation
This article presents a systematic framework to identify barriers that may impede the process of adaptation to climate change. The framework targets the process of planned adaptation and focuses on potentially challenging but malleable barriers. Three key sets of components create the architecture for the framework. First, a staged depiction of an idealized, rational approach to adaptation decision-making makes up the process component. Second, a…
Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science‐Action Gap
This article explains the behaviour of communications that have been taking place in the context of climate change and how fruitful they have been so far. It states that important insights can be gained from better understanding the way climate change has been communicated to date and how this communication has been received and interpreted. This article reveals further that communication of climate change has been less effective than one might w…
Taking ownership of climate change: Participatory adaptation planning in two local case studies from California
Interest in adaptation among local and state governments in the USA is on a steep incline since about 2007. Yet, place-specific vulnerability and adaptation research in the USA is still sparse, the public in many regions is still skeptical about the reality of climate change, and model adaptation planning processes are not well-known among practitioners. Against this backdrop of growing interest in adaptation, there is a great need to chronicle a…
Individual understandings, perceptions, and engagement with climate change: Insights from in‐depth studies across the world
Public understandings and perceptions of, as well as engagement with, climate change have garnered the interest of research and policy for almost three decades. A portion of this growing body of literature examines such perceptions in‐depth, using largely qualitative methodologies, such as personal interviews, limited sample size surveys, focus groups, and case studies. This area of research has been conducted on different continents, with indivi…
Dismantling the Ivory Tower: Engaging Geographers in University–Community Partnerships
University–community partnerships offer synergistic spaces for communities to address difficulties and universities to meet their missions. Geographers are well positioned to participate in these partnerships, owing to the discipline's integrative nature, spatial perspectives and analytic approaches, and its attention to social and environmental issues at many scales. This paper endeavours to assist geographers interested in these partnerships by…
Climate Change: New Dimensions in Disaster Risk, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Resilience
Disaster signifies extreme impacts suffered when hazardous physical events interact with vulnerable social conditions to severely alter the normal functioning of a community or a society (high confidence). Social vulnerability and exposure are key determinants of disaster risk and help explain why non-extreme physical events and chronic hazards can also lead to extreme impacts and disasters, while some extreme events do not. Extreme impacts on hu…
Barbara Holland-Cunz, Gefährdete Freiheit. Über Hannah Arendt und Simone de Beauvoir
Communicating adaptation to climate change: The art and science of public engagement when climate change comes home
This article synthesizes relevant literature and examples from practice to examine what is known to date about communicating climate change adaptation. It explores the language used to discuss adaptation, what is known about resonant frames, drawing on adaptation discourses in policy, practice, and the media. Identifying trends and widely applicable insights is made challenging not only by the variety of words used to speak of adaptation, but by …
Evaluation that counts: A review of climate change adaptation indicators & metrics using lessons from effective evaluation and science-practice interaction
Can science on transformation transform science? Lessons from co-design
Increasingly, ‘co-design’ is a key concept and approach in global change and sustainability research, in the scholarship on science–policy interactions, and an expressed expectation in research programs and initiatives. This paper situates co-design and then synthesizes insights from real-life experiences of co-developing research projects in this Special Issue. It highlights common co-design elements (parameters and considerations of co-design a…
Reflections on climate change communication research and practice in the second decade of the 21st century: What more is there to say
Appreciable advances have been made in recent years in raising climate change awareness and enhancing support for climate and energy policies. There also has been considerable progress in understanding of how to effectively communicate climate change. This progress raises questions about the future directions of communication research and practice. What more is there to say? Through a selective literature review, focused on contributions since a …
Political science (25 works) · Climate change (24 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Environmental resource management (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 works) · Public relations (12 works)