Libby Lester
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Libby Lester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Libby |
| FAMILY NAME | Lester |
| SIGNATURE | LESTER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1046-2412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Policing the Climate Crisis: Media Fearmongering and State Repression of Climate Protesters in Australia, Canada, and the United States Within the Post-2016 Conjuncture
This paper examines the present-day, post-2016 conjuncture of rising authoritarianism and reactionary politics through an analysis of news media and the symbolic criminalization of climate campaigners, Indigenous land and water defenders, and climate justice activists across major publications of record in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Drawing upon Stuart Hall’s influential work on media fearmongering and Othering and his “conjunctura…
Political orientation shapes attitudes to fuel management in the wildfire disaster prone island of Tasmania, Australia
Managing fuel loads is a critical step in reducing the risk of large, devastating wildfires. Fuel management activities can change the natural and amenity values of bushland proximate to where people live. Some treatments, such as prescribed burning, can affect air quality and hence human health. Accordingly, how fuels should be managed is intensely debated in the community and often becomes a political issue. Despite this, few studies have exami…
More than a continent of peace and science: A content analysis of Antarctica in Australian news media
This paper explores representations of Antarctica and Antarctic science in news media, using Australian news as a case study. Antarctic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences is increasingly interested in public engagement with a continent in geopolitical and geophysical flux. Studies have focused on literature, advertising, music and the arts, while news has been largely overlooked. Focusing on Australia, which claims 42 percent of An…
The invisible architecture of creative and cultural work: The relationship between miscategorisation and sector wellbeing during Covid-19
Tasmania, Australia’s southern island state, is known nationally and increasingly internationally for its arts and cultural sector. As is common elsewhere, the extent and nature of the sector has been poorly measured and documented, with its value remaining relatively opaque within a policy making framework. With the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020, serious consequences of this poor categorisation and articulation of the sector’s value emerged, w…
Increasing food insecurity severity is associated with lower diet quality
Objective: Food insecurity may reduce diet quality, but the relationship between food insecurity severity and diet quality is under-researched. This study aimed to examine the relationship between diet quality and severity of household food insecurity. Design: A cross-sectional, online survey used the United States Department of Agriculture Household Food Security Six-item Short Form to classify respondents as food secure or marginally, moderatel…
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change
One barrier to action on climate change is public trust in climate science, and projections made by climate scientists. However, climate science projections are rarely measured in public surveys. We designed survey questions based on two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections regarding global warming and coral reef decline. We gauge Australians’ trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections, and explore how trust i…
Coal versus Coral: Australian Climate Change Politics sees the Great Barrier Reef in Court
The likelihood that climate change may destroy the Great Barrier Reef has been a central motif in Australia’s climate change politics for more than a decade as political ideologies and corporate and environmental activism draw or refute connections between the coal industry and climate change. The media fuel this debate because in this contest, as ever, the news media always do more than simply report the news. Given that the Reef has also been c…
Perceiving Environmental Science, Risk and Industry Regulation in the Mediatised Vicious Cycles of the Tasmanian Salmon Aquaculture Industry
This paper examines public conflict over the rapid growth of the Tasmanian salmon aquaculture industry and associated environmental and social impacts. By conducting a media analysis, triangulated with key stakeholder interviews, we find news media discourse was predominantly framed by environmental risk, expansion of the industry and the in/effectiveness of Government regulation. Environmental science and community interests were conflated withi…
Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News: A Regional Qualitative Case Study
Local and regional journalism is perceived to aid the functioning of democracy. Yet local publications are increasingly being forced to close due to the collapse of pre-digital news business models. An emerging area of scholarship considers potential funding solutions for local news media. One key enquiry is how local news publishers may attract more revenue from their audiences. This is a difficult task for all news organisations, yet even more …
Make love, not war: Radical environmental activism's reconfigurative potential and pitfalls
New radical environmental action movements are attracting large numbers of diverse actors who inevitably will take inspiration and learn from mistakes of those radical environmental organizations that precede them and continue today into middle age. The representational strategies of these established organizations are of specific interest as they enter a maturity phase that coincides with the planet experiencing an unprecedented anthropogenic mo…
Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest: The View From Here
Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest: The View from Here
As more governments, companies and individuals scan the globe for access to primary resources such as minerals and timber, food, power and water, and destinations for work, holidays and homes, pressures on places and communities grow. At the same time, global environmental risks, most notably climate change, produce new networks and unfamiliar forms of politics. Communication media are integral to this change. This book explores how geographicall…
Trust, engagement, information and social licence—insights from New Zealand
This research examines trust at the government, industry, community nexus, as mediated by media, and its effect on social licence to operate. Researchers attempted to understand levels and importance of trust in New Zealand's natural resource sectors by examining ways of building, maintaining and assessing public trust in a post-truth society. We surveyed 128 New Zealand public and held a stakeholder forum about perceptions of trust in relation t…
Environmental Pollution and the Media: Political Discourses of Risk and Responsibility in Australia, China and Japan
Chapter Three AustraliaAustralia is the first of our case studies.In one way at least, Australia represents the beginning of our transnational pollution story--even if the phenomena we are exploring in this book are best viewed as a circular flow of political communications, goods and environmental harms in which all three countries in this study are caught.Each country is affected by the massive quantities of pollutants emitted daily into the wo…
Climate patriots? Concern over climate change and other environmental issues in Australia
Echoing the anti-pollution and resource conservation campaigns in the United States in the early-to-mid-twentieth century, some scholars advocate mobilising support for environmental issues by harnessing the notion of environmental patriotism. Taking action to reduce the impact of global warming has also been cast as a patriotic cause. Drawing upon quantitative data from a recent national survey, we examine the link between patriotism and environ…
Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now
The Great Barrier Reef is the most recognizable of the Australian properties on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. At the time of its inscription in 1981, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature noted that ‘... if only one coral reef site in the world were to be chosen for the World Heritage List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen’. The listing followed the…
Containing spectacle in the transnational public sphere
This paper analyzes the discursive struggle over the reach and containment of spectacle in environmental politics to provide (a) case study-based evidence of how, on one hand, transnationally shared environmental awareness and concern, emerging in part through spectacle, is translating into expectations of participation and demands for accountability, and (b) how this is already impacting the ways in which environmental politics is being understo…
Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour
The World Heritage Convention protects sites of universal natural and cultural values, sometimes in combination. In 2015, it was amended to incorporate references to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). International conventions are always in danger of becoming the hand-maidens of their signatory states. When evidence emerges that they have succumbed, it fuels criticism of cosmopolitanism. At the same time,…
Three Challenges for Environmental Communication Research
I want to identify three major challenges that I see for our field, and suggest that inconfronting these, we are forced to reconsider how we integrate and organize theknowledge, theories, and actors that have been associated with environmentalcommunication (EC) research in the past. As our field encourages us to foregroundthe localit is, after all, specific landscapes that provide minerals, fossil fuels, timberproducts, or the locations for nucle…
Wilderness and the Media Politics of Place Branding
It is 30 years since the Australian environmental movement enlisted the term “wilderness” to protect Tasmania's remote Franklin River from hydroelectric development. Environmentalists deployed “wilderness” strategically during the conflict to build public support for their no-dam campaign, aided by national and international media who used the term liberally, while Tasmanian news media and pro-development elites acknowledged the term's inherent p…
Justice, politics and the social usefulness of news
In 2009 in Hobart, Australia, a 12-year-old ward of the state was advertised in a metropolitan newspaper as an 18-year-old prostitute. The decision to prosecute only one of the 100-plus men alleged to have paid her for sex made national headlines and gave rise to allegations of a conspiracy involving the highest levels of government and the judiciary. It also resulted in reform of the state’s laws relating to the ‘mistake as to age’ defence. This…
Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking: When conspiracy theories become news
Conspiracy theories can no longer be consigned to the fringes of media; they are a feature of news and journalism and can be defined as attempts to find causal explanations for events in covert plots rather than more prosaic processes. Often a pejorative label, journalists know that conspiracies can be sites for significant news-making. This empirical study explores the conditions and practices that lead to conspiracy theories entering news narra…
Theorizing the enactment of mediatized environmental conflict
Contemporary ‘mediatized environmental conflict’ involves complex interactions between (i) activist strategies and campaigns, (ii) journalism practices and news reporting, (iii) formal politics and decision-making processes, and (iv) industry activities and trade. This article theorizes how these interactions occur, drawing on evidence produced by a nine-year period of investigation into environmental media practices, content and technologies. In…
Transnational Publics and Environmental Conflict in the Asian Century
Conflict over landscape use, resource access and environmental futures has become a central feature of contemporary political life. Increasingly, these conflicts are articulated, negotiated and potentially resolved across national boundaries and complex networks of media and communications. Within the context of intensifying pressure for resources, market opportunities and changing media practices, this article examines the multi-directional and …
Environmental Conflict and the Media
Has the hype associated with the «revolutionary» potential of the World Wide Web and digital media for environmental activism been muted by the past two decades of lived experience? What are the empirical realities of the prevailing media landscape? Using a range of related disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this book analyze and explain the complicated relationship between environmental conflict and the media. They shine light on why…
The power of the unseen: Environmental Conflict, the Media and Invisibility
This article critically revisits the operation of ‘mediated visibility’ in the context of environmental conflict. Challenger groups have long gained access to news media and influenced political decision-makers by staging highly visible protest events that draw public attention to environmental threats and destruction. The advent of the world-wide web and digital media tools has since added to the tactical arsenal available to groups wanting to i…
Environmental protest and tap-dancing with the media in the information age
Environmental politics and values gain legitimacy through their constant presence in the media. This article outlines and critiques a theoretical approach that can increase understanding of the relationship between environmental protest and news media representation. Manuel Castells, pre-eminent theorist of the information age and 'the network society', is useful in this regard. He describes the relationship between media organizations and enviro…
Lost in the Wilderness: Celebrity, protest and the news
The deployment of celebrities is a well-established practice in environmental politics, but does the involvement of actors, singers and comedians give environmentalists an edge in the battle for positive and ongoing news coverage or simply feed contemporary anxieties and debates about the state of the public sphere? This paper attempts to understand better the interaction between celebrity, protest and the news over time by asking how celebrity f…
Theorizing the enactment of mediatized environmental conflict
Contemporary ‘mediatized environmental conflict’ involves complex interactions between (i) activist strategies and campaigns, (ii) journalism practices and news reporting, (iii) formal politics and decision-making processes, and (iv) industry activities and trade. This article theorizes how these interactions occur, drawing on evidence produced by a nine-year period of investigation into environmental media practices, content and technologies. In…
Power games: Environmental protest, news media and the internet
Print and electronic news media have played a central role in environmentalpolitics for 30 years: negotiating access, shaping meanings, circulating symbols.Environmentalists have responded with strategies and tactics createdfor and communicated through the news media. Protest action is one suchstrategy that has become reflexively conditioned to an unprecedented levelin its pursuit of media attention (Cottle, 2008: 853). It is for this reason that…
Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News: A Regional Qualitative Case Study
Local and regional journalism is perceived to aid the functioning of democracy. Yet local publications are increasingly being forced to close due to the collapse of pre-digital news business models. An emerging area of scholarship considers potential funding solutions for local news media. One key enquiry is how local news publishers may attract more revenue from their audiences. This is a difficult task for all news organisations, yet even more …
Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now
The Great Barrier Reef is the most recognizable of the Australian properties on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. At the time of its inscription in 1981, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature noted that ‘... if only one coral reef site in the world were to be chosen for the World Heritage List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen’. The listing followed the…
Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking: When conspiracy theories become news
Conspiracy theories can no longer be consigned to the fringes of media; they are a feature of news and journalism and can be defined as attempts to find causal explanations for events in covert plots rather than more prosaic processes. Often a pejorative label, journalists know that conspiracies can be sites for significant news-making. This empirical study explores the conditions and practices that lead to conspiracy theories entering news narra…
Soft journalism, politics and environmental risk: An Australian story
Complex environmental science issues are regularly reported by the news media in highly personalized and symbolic terms in order to make the consequences of environmental degradation and risk comprehensible to the public. This article presents a case study showing how the tension between political statements, human-interest narratives and scientific credibility in this style of reporting can undercut citizen-led claims about environmental risk fa…
Wilderness and the Loaded Language of News
This paper addresses the politicisation of the idea of wilderness in the Australian news media, and questions how journalistic labelling in news copy intensified this process. It is based on research into the coverage of the Franklin Dam blockade in the summer of 1982-83, the first wilderness campaign to attain global stature. Specifically, it analyses the coverage of the 10-week protest in the Melbourne Age and the Hobart Mercury, and draws on t…
Transnational Publics and Environmental Conflict in the Asian Century
Conflict over landscape use, resource access and environmental futures has become a central feature of contemporary political life. Increasingly, these conflicts are articulated, negotiated and potentially resolved across national boundaries and complex networks of media and communications. Within the context of intensifying pressure for resources, market opportunities and changing media practices, this article examines the multi-directional and …
Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest: The View From Here
Species of the Month: Anti-Whaling, Mediated Visibility, and the News
Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and captain of anti-whaling ship the Steve Irwin, has emerged as one of the world's most visible environmental protesters. This essay, based in part on a long interview with Watson in Australia in 2009, analyzes his mediated visibility and thus capacity to participate in public debate by isolating various components of his strategic activities under four themes: mediated protest, symbo…
Make love, not war: Radical environmental activism's reconfigurative potential and pitfalls
New radical environmental action movements are attracting large numbers of diverse actors who inevitably will take inspiration and learn from mistakes of those radical environmental organizations that precede them and continue today into middle age. The representational strategies of these established organizations are of specific interest as they enter a maturity phase that coincides with the planet experiencing an unprecedented anthropogenic mo…
Justice, politics and the social usefulness of news
In 2009 in Hobart, Australia, a 12-year-old ward of the state was advertised in a metropolitan newspaper as an 18-year-old prostitute. The decision to prosecute only one of the 100-plus men alleged to have paid her for sex made national headlines and gave rise to allegations of a conspiracy involving the highest levels of government and the judiciary. It also resulted in reform of the state’s laws relating to the ‘mistake as to age’ defence. This…
Big tree, small news: Media access, symbolic power and strategic intervention
The death of El Grande — Australia’s biggest tree and the world’s largest flowering plant and hardwood tree — created a powerful symbol for environmentalists challenging the destruction of native forests across Tasmania, but only outside Tasmania. In local media, the reporting of the tree’s fate remained contained and isolated from the broader environmental conflict. Using El Grande’s discovery, burning and death as a critical case study and draw…
Environmental Sustainability
All for One, One for All’: Communicative processes of co-creation of place brands through inclusive and horizontal stakeholder collaborative networks
This paper examines stakeholder communication and interaction dynamics in place branding processes in order to inform alternative participatory place branding models. The paper draws from critical communications and branding theory to argue that place brand identities are the result of mediated messages in the public sphere. Consequently, place branding processes need to be observed as communicative exchanges. Through a case study of Australia’s …
Wilderness and the Loaded Language of News
This paper addresses the politicisation of the idea of wilderness in the Australian news media, and questions how journalistic labelling in news copy intensified this process. It is based on research into the coverage of the Franklin Dam blockade in the summer of 1982-83, the first wilderness campaign to attain global stature. Specifically, it analyses the coverage of the 10-week protest in the Melbourne Age and the Hobart Mercury, and draws on t…
Lost in the Wilderness: Celebrity, protest and the news
The deployment of celebrities is a well-established practice in environmental politics, but does the involvement of actors, singers and comedians give environmentalists an edge in the battle for positive and ongoing news coverage or simply feed contemporary anxieties and debates about the state of the public sphere? This paper attempts to understand better the interaction between celebrity, protest and the news over time by asking how celebrity f…
Environmental protest and tap-dancing with the media in the information age
Environmental politics and values gain legitimacy through their constant presence in the media. This article outlines and critiques a theoretical approach that can increase understanding of the relationship between environmental protest and news media representation. Manuel Castells, pre-eminent theorist of the information age and 'the network society', is useful in this regard. He describes the relationship between media organizations and enviro…
We too are Green: Public Relations, Symbolic Power and the Tasmanian Wilderness Conflict
This paper asks how the incorporation of public relations and marketing strategies into political debate over Tasmanian wilderness, in particular the appropriation and deployment by industry and government of powerful symbols traditionally associated with the environment movement, challenges not only the always tenuously held power of the movement but also the power of the media. Drawing on textual analysis and interviews with journalists, activi…
Environmental Sustainability
Ecomedia: Of Angelic Images and Environmental Values
The prominence of media events in 2006, including the release of former US Vice President Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even the death of 'eco-celebrity' Steve Irwin, suggested a need to devote an issue of Media International Australia to media and the environment. The study of environmentalism throug…
Power games: Environmental protest, news media and the internet
Print and electronic news media have played a central role in environmentalpolitics for 30 years: negotiating access, shaping meanings, circulating symbols.Environmentalists have responded with strategies and tactics createdfor and communicated through the news media. Protest action is one suchstrategy that has become reflexively conditioned to an unprecedented levelin its pursuit of media attention (Cottle, 2008: 853). It is for this reason that…
Big tree, small news: Media access, symbolic power and strategic intervention
The death of El Grande — Australia’s biggest tree and the world’s largest flowering plant and hardwood tree — created a powerful symbol for environmentalists challenging the destruction of native forests across Tasmania, but only outside Tasmania. In local media, the reporting of the tree’s fate remained contained and isolated from the broader environmental conflict. Using El Grande’s discovery, burning and death as a critical case study and draw…
Species of the Month: Anti-Whaling, Mediated Visibility, and the News
Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and captain of anti-whaling ship the Steve Irwin, has emerged as one of the world's most visible environmental protesters. This essay, based in part on a long interview with Watson in Australia in 2009, analyzes his mediated visibility and thus capacity to participate in public debate by isolating various components of his strategic activities under four themes: mediated protest, symbo…
Soft journalism, politics and environmental risk: An Australian story
Complex environmental science issues are regularly reported by the news media in highly personalized and symbolic terms in order to make the consequences of environmental degradation and risk comprehensible to the public. This article presents a case study showing how the tension between political statements, human-interest narratives and scientific credibility in this style of reporting can undercut citizen-led claims about environmental risk fa…
The power of the unseen: Environmental Conflict, the Media and Invisibility
This article critically revisits the operation of ‘mediated visibility’ in the context of environmental conflict. Challenger groups have long gained access to news media and influenced political decision-makers by staging highly visible protest events that draw public attention to environmental threats and destruction. The advent of the world-wide web and digital media tools has since added to the tactical arsenal available to groups wanting to i…
Environmental Conflict and the Media
Has the hype associated with the «revolutionary» potential of the World Wide Web and digital media for environmental activism been muted by the past two decades of lived experience? What are the empirical realities of the prevailing media landscape? Using a range of related disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this book analyze and explain the complicated relationship between environmental conflict and the media. They shine light on why…
Transnational Publics and Environmental Conflict in the Asian Century
Conflict over landscape use, resource access and environmental futures has become a central feature of contemporary political life. Increasingly, these conflicts are articulated, negotiated and potentially resolved across national boundaries and complex networks of media and communications. Within the context of intensifying pressure for resources, market opportunities and changing media practices, this article examines the multi-directional and …
Three Challenges for Environmental Communication Research
I want to identify three major challenges that I see for our field, and suggest that inconfronting these, we are forced to reconsider how we integrate and organize theknowledge, theories, and actors that have been associated with environmentalcommunication (EC) research in the past. As our field encourages us to foregroundthe localit is, after all, specific landscapes that provide minerals, fossil fuels, timberproducts, or the locations for nucle…
Wilderness and the Media Politics of Place Branding
It is 30 years since the Australian environmental movement enlisted the term “wilderness” to protect Tasmania's remote Franklin River from hydroelectric development. Environmentalists deployed “wilderness” strategically during the conflict to build public support for their no-dam campaign, aided by national and international media who used the term liberally, while Tasmanian news media and pro-development elites acknowledged the term's inherent p…
Justice, politics and the social usefulness of news
In 2009 in Hobart, Australia, a 12-year-old ward of the state was advertised in a metropolitan newspaper as an 18-year-old prostitute. The decision to prosecute only one of the 100-plus men alleged to have paid her for sex made national headlines and gave rise to allegations of a conspiracy involving the highest levels of government and the judiciary. It also resulted in reform of the state’s laws relating to the ‘mistake as to age’ defence. This…
Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking: When conspiracy theories become news
Conspiracy theories can no longer be consigned to the fringes of media; they are a feature of news and journalism and can be defined as attempts to find causal explanations for events in covert plots rather than more prosaic processes. Often a pejorative label, journalists know that conspiracies can be sites for significant news-making. This empirical study explores the conditions and practices that lead to conspiracy theories entering news narra…
Theorizing the enactment of mediatized environmental conflict
Contemporary ‘mediatized environmental conflict’ involves complex interactions between (i) activist strategies and campaigns, (ii) journalism practices and news reporting, (iii) formal politics and decision-making processes, and (iv) industry activities and trade. This article theorizes how these interactions occur, drawing on evidence produced by a nine-year period of investigation into environmental media practices, content and technologies. In…
Containing spectacle in the transnational public sphere
This paper analyzes the discursive struggle over the reach and containment of spectacle in environmental politics to provide (a) case study-based evidence of how, on one hand, transnationally shared environmental awareness and concern, emerging in part through spectacle, is translating into expectations of participation and demands for accountability, and (b) how this is already impacting the ways in which environmental politics is being understo…
Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour
The World Heritage Convention protects sites of universal natural and cultural values, sometimes in combination. In 2015, it was amended to incorporate references to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). International conventions are always in danger of becoming the hand-maidens of their signatory states. When evidence emerges that they have succumbed, it fuels criticism of cosmopolitanism. At the same time,…
Environmental Pollution and the Media: Political Discourses of Risk and Responsibility in Australia, China and Japan
Chapter Three AustraliaAustralia is the first of our case studies.In one way at least, Australia represents the beginning of our transnational pollution story--even if the phenomena we are exploring in this book are best viewed as a circular flow of political communications, goods and environmental harms in which all three countries in this study are caught.Each country is affected by the massive quantities of pollutants emitted daily into the wo…
Climate patriots? Concern over climate change and other environmental issues in Australia
Echoing the anti-pollution and resource conservation campaigns in the United States in the early-to-mid-twentieth century, some scholars advocate mobilising support for environmental issues by harnessing the notion of environmental patriotism. Taking action to reduce the impact of global warming has also been cast as a patriotic cause. Drawing upon quantitative data from a recent national survey, we examine the link between patriotism and environ…
Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now
The Great Barrier Reef is the most recognizable of the Australian properties on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. At the time of its inscription in 1981, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature noted that ‘... if only one coral reef site in the world were to be chosen for the World Heritage List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen’. The listing followed the…
Trust, engagement, information and social licence—insights from New Zealand
This research examines trust at the government, industry, community nexus, as mediated by media, and its effect on social licence to operate. Researchers attempted to understand levels and importance of trust in New Zealand's natural resource sectors by examining ways of building, maintaining and assessing public trust in a post-truth society. We surveyed 128 New Zealand public and held a stakeholder forum about perceptions of trust in relation t…
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