Chloe H Lucas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1676785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chloe H Lucas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chloe H |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAS C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0834-1622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How prepared are we? A survey of smartphone applications for managing personal risk of natural hazards
Public demand for and use of smartphone applications for disaster risk management is rising. Provided by government, NGOs and private commercial enterprises, these digital tools are considered vital for public preparedness. We systematically identified English-language applications focusing on natural hazards available for public download. A custom program developed to search Google Play store and Apple App Store for applications on geophysical, …
Firing the imagination? A visual analysis of bushfire preparedness videos from Australian fire agencies, 2015–2022
Australian fire agencies use videos to inform and advise the public about strategies and actions they can take to prepare for bushfire danger. This study examines videos about bushfire preparedness published on YouTube by Australian state and territory fire services over the period 2015-2022. Through visual analysis, we investigate the explicit and implicit messages of videos by fire agencies about public bushfire risk in Australia. Quantitative …
The Heat Is On: A Game to Envision Thriving Futures in a Climate Changed World
Many young people feel distressed about climate change, and pessimistic about what the future holds. Gaps in education about climate change contribute to limited understanding of opportunities for climate mitigation and adaptation, and to a pervasive “discourse of doom.” Here we describe a “game for change” co-designed by climate and education researchers and young people, that aims to shift narratives about climate changed futures toward an acti…
Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science
This 68-country survey ( n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such differences are associated with sociopolitical and economic conditions. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most countries, except those with democratic-corporatist media systems where news media tend to be used more widely. People in collectivist soc…
Heated discussions: Youth-Led Dialogue With Older Generations Reveals Unwitting Silences and Shared Feelings About Climate Change
Framing the flames: Addressing public disengagement through fear framings in Australian bushfire preparedness campaign videos
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action
Children across the world are facing physical, emotional, and social impacts of climate change. Despite burgeoning scientific and political climate discourse, the voices and opinions of children are underrepresented, as previous research has focused on the opinions of adults. This lack of representation contributes to feelings of disempowerment and betrayal. We investigate children’s priorities for climate knowledge, reporting on questions asked …
Climate‐driven ‘species‐on‐the‐move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change
Over recent decades, our understanding of climate change has accelerated greatly, but unfortunately, observable impacts have increased in tandem. Both mitigation and adaptation have not progressed at the level or scale warranted by our collective knowledge on climate change. More effective approaches to engage people on current and future anthropogenic climate change effects are urgently needed. Here, we show how species whose distributions are s…
Innocent heroes or self‐absorbed alarmists? A thematic review of the variety and effects of storylines about young people in climate change discourses
Discourses about young people are interacting with climate change discourses in ways that often marginalize the young in social responses to climate change. The resulting stories about young people in a changing climate build upon long‐standing representations of youthhood in late modern societies as a liminal, ill‐defined state between childhood and adulthood. The social and behavioral sciences have both helped produce these stories and critical…
The burden of bad news: Educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education
Listen to me!’: Young people’s experiences of talking about emotional impacts of climate change
The emotional significance of climate change for young people is becoming recognised. However, their experiences of talking about these feelings are not well understood, despite being acknowledged as an important avenue for support and social change. This article reports on a survey of 1,943 young people aged 15–19 years living in Australia. The survey examined their level of concern about climate change, the feelings they associate with climate …
House and contents underinsurance: Insights from bushfire-prone Australia
Insurance, fire and the peri-urban: Perceptions of changing communities in Melbourne’s rural-urban interface
Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive development. In the literature, these shifts are characterised by differences in the risk perceptions and hazard experiences between established and incoming residents. In this paper, we illustrate how some of these differences are perceived by focusing on house and contents insurance in the …
Climate friction: How climate change communication produces resistance to concern
Communication about climate change has never been more urgent. But what if talking about a need for concern about climate change actually contributes to resistance against such concern? I argue that in an effort to stimulate concern and action, climate communicators often fail to listen and give respect to the values and experiences of publics who are unconcerned about climate change. Climate change narratives tend to pathologise unconcern as a n…
Earth unbound: Climate change, activism and justice
This experimental writing piece by the Earth Unbound Collective explores the ethical, political and pedagogical challenges in addressing climate change, activism and justice. The provocation Earth Unbound: the struggle to breathe and the creative thoughts that follow are inspired by the contagious energy of what Donna Haraway (2016 Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.[Crossref] , [Goo…
From gateway to custodian city: Understanding urban residents' sense of connectedness to Antarctica
Antarctic "gateway" cities have been characterised primarily as portals through which goods and services from around the world can be transported to the frozen continent. However, recent research suggests that this concept should be expanded to address other forms of connectivity, including those felt by people living in these cities rather than simply passing through them. In this article, we explore the meaning of urban relations to Antarctica …
Privatizing climate adaptation: How insurance weakens solidaristic and collective disaster recovery
As losses from extreme weather events grow, many governments are looking to privatize the financing and incentivization of climate adaptation through insurance markets. In a pure market approach to insurance for extreme weather events, individuals become responsible for ensuring they are adequately covered for risks to their own properties, and governments no longer contribute funds to post‐disaster recovery. Theoretically, insurance premiums sig…
Not 'getting on the bandwagon: When climate change is a matter of unconcern
Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not express concern about this issue as unwitting victims of their own or others' biases. Characterised as apathy, ignorance, scepticism or denial, absence of concern about climate change has been presented as being rooted in an individual's lack of considered engagement with scientific reasons for concern. This 'concern deficit' is framed as a problem to…
Disrupting polarized discourses: Can we get out of the ruts of environmental conflicts
Polarization in environmental conflicts obstructs decision making at all scales. The Australian state of Tasmania has a history of intense polarization around environmental issues. This article uses a social study of citizens of the capital, Hobart, and a case study of a recent attempt to disrupt polarization about forestry in Tasmania, to develop a novel conceptualization of ‘ruts’ in environmental conflicts. Ruts are formed when polarizing soci…
Concerning values: What Underlies Public Polarisation About Climate Change
Climate change is a partisan issue, with increasingly politically polarised responses, particularly in Anglophone countries. While politics clearly have a role in determining attitudes to climate science and policy, understanding the human values that underlie attitudes offers advantages over a focus on political differences. This study examines public concern about climate change in Hobart, the state capital of Tasmania, Australia. Hobart is a m…
How climate change research undermines trust in everyday life: A review
Empirical and theoretical research on trust has received little attention in climate change literature despite the central role of trust in determining responses to climate science. We reassess the challenge of climate change communication in light of recent research on trust across social, psychological, and neuroscientific disciplines. We argue that networks of explicit and implicit trust in everyday practices are a foundation of stable society…
Not 'getting on the bandwagon: When climate change is a matter of unconcern
Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not express concern about this issue as unwitting victims of their own or others' biases. Characterised as apathy, ignorance, scepticism or denial, absence of concern about climate change has been presented as being rooted in an individual's lack of considered engagement with scientific reasons for concern. This 'concern deficit' is framed as a problem to…
The burden of bad news: Educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education
Listen to me!’: Young people’s experiences of talking about emotional impacts of climate change
The emotional significance of climate change for young people is becoming recognised. However, their experiences of talking about these feelings are not well understood, despite being acknowledged as an important avenue for support and social change. This article reports on a survey of 1,943 young people aged 15–19 years living in Australia. The survey examined their level of concern about climate change, the feelings they associate with climate …
Privatizing climate adaptation: How insurance weakens solidaristic and collective disaster recovery
As losses from extreme weather events grow, many governments are looking to privatize the financing and incentivization of climate adaptation through insurance markets. In a pure market approach to insurance for extreme weather events, individuals become responsible for ensuring they are adequately covered for risks to their own properties, and governments no longer contribute funds to post‐disaster recovery. Theoretically, insurance premiums sig…
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
Disrupting polarized discourses: Can we get out of the ruts of environmental conflicts
Polarization in environmental conflicts obstructs decision making at all scales. The Australian state of Tasmania has a history of intense polarization around environmental issues. This article uses a social study of citizens of the capital, Hobart, and a case study of a recent attempt to disrupt polarization about forestry in Tasmania, to develop a novel conceptualization of ‘ruts’ in environmental conflicts. Ruts are formed when polarizing soci…
Concerning values: What Underlies Public Polarisation About Climate Change
Climate change is a partisan issue, with increasingly politically polarised responses, particularly in Anglophone countries. While politics clearly have a role in determining attitudes to climate science and policy, understanding the human values that underlie attitudes offers advantages over a focus on political differences. This study examines public concern about climate change in Hobart, the state capital of Tasmania, Australia. Hobart is a m…
Climate friction: How climate change communication produces resistance to concern
Communication about climate change has never been more urgent. But what if talking about a need for concern about climate change actually contributes to resistance against such concern? I argue that in an effort to stimulate concern and action, climate communicators often fail to listen and give respect to the values and experiences of publics who are unconcerned about climate change. Climate change narratives tend to pathologise unconcern as a n…
From gateway to custodian city: Understanding urban residents' sense of connectedness to Antarctica
Antarctic "gateway" cities have been characterised primarily as portals through which goods and services from around the world can be transported to the frozen continent. However, recent research suggests that this concept should be expanded to address other forms of connectivity, including those felt by people living in these cities rather than simply passing through them. In this article, we explore the meaning of urban relations to Antarctica …
Insurance, fire and the peri-urban: Perceptions of changing communities in Melbourne’s rural-urban interface
Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive development. In the literature, these shifts are characterised by differences in the risk perceptions and hazard experiences between established and incoming residents. In this paper, we illustrate how some of these differences are perceived by focusing on house and contents insurance in the …
Earth unbound: Climate change, activism and justice
This experimental writing piece by the Earth Unbound Collective explores the ethical, political and pedagogical challenges in addressing climate change, activism and justice. The provocation Earth Unbound: the struggle to breathe and the creative thoughts that follow are inspired by the contagious energy of what Donna Haraway (2016 Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.[Crossref] , [Goo…
How climate change research undermines trust in everyday life: A review
Empirical and theoretical research on trust has received little attention in climate change literature despite the central role of trust in determining responses to climate science. We reassess the challenge of climate change communication in light of recent research on trust across social, psychological, and neuroscientific disciplines. We argue that networks of explicit and implicit trust in everyday practices are a foundation of stable society…
Disrupting polarized discourses: Can we get out of the ruts of environmental conflicts
Polarization in environmental conflicts obstructs decision making at all scales. The Australian state of Tasmania has a history of intense polarization around environmental issues. This article uses a social study of citizens of the capital, Hobart, and a case study of a recent attempt to disrupt polarization about forestry in Tasmania, to develop a novel conceptualization of ‘ruts’ in environmental conflicts. Ruts are formed when polarizing soci…
Concerning values: What Underlies Public Polarisation About Climate Change
Climate change is a partisan issue, with increasingly politically polarised responses, particularly in Anglophone countries. While politics clearly have a role in determining attitudes to climate science and policy, understanding the human values that underlie attitudes offers advantages over a focus on political differences. This study examines public concern about climate change in Hobart, the state capital of Tasmania, Australia. Hobart is a m…
Not 'getting on the bandwagon: When climate change is a matter of unconcern
Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not express concern about this issue as unwitting victims of their own or others' biases. Characterised as apathy, ignorance, scepticism or denial, absence of concern about climate change has been presented as being rooted in an individual's lack of considered engagement with scientific reasons for concern. This 'concern deficit' is framed as a problem to…
Privatizing climate adaptation: How insurance weakens solidaristic and collective disaster recovery
As losses from extreme weather events grow, many governments are looking to privatize the financing and incentivization of climate adaptation through insurance markets. In a pure market approach to insurance for extreme weather events, individuals become responsible for ensuring they are adequately covered for risks to their own properties, and governments no longer contribute funds to post‐disaster recovery. Theoretically, insurance premiums sig…
Earth unbound: Climate change, activism and justice
This experimental writing piece by the Earth Unbound Collective explores the ethical, political and pedagogical challenges in addressing climate change, activism and justice. The provocation Earth Unbound: the struggle to breathe and the creative thoughts that follow are inspired by the contagious energy of what Donna Haraway (2016 Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.[Crossref] , [Goo…
From gateway to custodian city: Understanding urban residents' sense of connectedness to Antarctica
Antarctic "gateway" cities have been characterised primarily as portals through which goods and services from around the world can be transported to the frozen continent. However, recent research suggests that this concept should be expanded to address other forms of connectivity, including those felt by people living in these cities rather than simply passing through them. In this article, we explore the meaning of urban relations to Antarctica …
House and contents underinsurance: Insights from bushfire-prone Australia
Insurance, fire and the peri-urban: Perceptions of changing communities in Melbourne’s rural-urban interface
Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive development. In the literature, these shifts are characterised by differences in the risk perceptions and hazard experiences between established and incoming residents. In this paper, we illustrate how some of these differences are perceived by focusing on house and contents insurance in the …
Climate friction: How climate change communication produces resistance to concern
Communication about climate change has never been more urgent. But what if talking about a need for concern about climate change actually contributes to resistance against such concern? I argue that in an effort to stimulate concern and action, climate communicators often fail to listen and give respect to the values and experiences of publics who are unconcerned about climate change. Climate change narratives tend to pathologise unconcern as a n…
Climate‐driven ‘species‐on‐the‐move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change
Over recent decades, our understanding of climate change has accelerated greatly, but unfortunately, observable impacts have increased in tandem. Both mitigation and adaptation have not progressed at the level or scale warranted by our collective knowledge on climate change. More effective approaches to engage people on current and future anthropogenic climate change effects are urgently needed. Here, we show how species whose distributions are s…
Innocent heroes or self‐absorbed alarmists? A thematic review of the variety and effects of storylines about young people in climate change discourses
Discourses about young people are interacting with climate change discourses in ways that often marginalize the young in social responses to climate change. The resulting stories about young people in a changing climate build upon long‐standing representations of youthhood in late modern societies as a liminal, ill‐defined state between childhood and adulthood. The social and behavioral sciences have both helped produce these stories and critical…
The burden of bad news: Educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education
Listen to me!’: Young people’s experiences of talking about emotional impacts of climate change
The emotional significance of climate change for young people is becoming recognised. However, their experiences of talking about these feelings are not well understood, despite being acknowledged as an important avenue for support and social change. This article reports on a survey of 1,943 young people aged 15–19 years living in Australia. The survey examined their level of concern about climate change, the feelings they associate with climate …
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action
Children across the world are facing physical, emotional, and social impacts of climate change. Despite burgeoning scientific and political climate discourse, the voices and opinions of children are underrepresented, as previous research has focused on the opinions of adults. This lack of representation contributes to feelings of disempowerment and betrayal. We investigate children’s priorities for climate knowledge, reporting on questions asked …
Firing the imagination? A visual analysis of bushfire preparedness videos from Australian fire agencies, 2015–2022
Australian fire agencies use videos to inform and advise the public about strategies and actions they can take to prepare for bushfire danger. This study examines videos about bushfire preparedness published on YouTube by Australian state and territory fire services over the period 2015-2022. Through visual analysis, we investigate the explicit and implicit messages of videos by fire agencies about public bushfire risk in Australia. Quantitative …
The Heat Is On: A Game to Envision Thriving Futures in a Climate Changed World
Many young people feel distressed about climate change, and pessimistic about what the future holds. Gaps in education about climate change contribute to limited understanding of opportunities for climate mitigation and adaptation, and to a pervasive “discourse of doom.” Here we describe a “game for change” co-designed by climate and education researchers and young people, that aims to shift narratives about climate changed futures toward an acti…
Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science
This 68-country survey ( n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such differences are associated with sociopolitical and economic conditions. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most countries, except those with democratic-corporatist media systems where news media tend to be used more widely. People in collectivist soc…
Heated discussions: Youth-Led Dialogue With Older Generations Reveals Unwitting Silences and Shared Feelings About Climate Change
Framing the flames: Addressing public disengagement through fear framings in Australian bushfire preparedness campaign videos
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
How prepared are we? A survey of smartphone applications for managing personal risk of natural hazards
Public demand for and use of smartphone applications for disaster risk management is rising. Provided by government, NGOs and private commercial enterprises, these digital tools are considered vital for public preparedness. We systematically identified English-language applications focusing on natural hazards available for public download. A custom program developed to search Google Play store and Apple App Store for applications on geophysical, …
Political science (14 works) · Climate change (12 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (6 works) · Ecology (6 works)