Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 455354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerrie Foxwell-Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerrie |
| FAMILY NAME | Foxwell-Norton |
| SIGNATURE | FOXWELL-NORTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3313-3024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef
Environmental communication has failed the Great Barrier Reef. After fifty years of communicating the need for protection and conservation, the Reef—like coral reefs globally—remains on the brink of ecological collapse. Australians and international communities are deeply connected to the Reef, a connection reflected in its central place in environmental policy and political debate, its economic significance to tourism, mining, fishing and relate…
Listening for the local: Australian community radio and climate change communication
Climate change is most acutely experienced at the local level so conversations and action must be locally relevant. Australia's community radio sector is uniquely positioned - both as hyperlocal media and a platform for diverse voices - to facilitate these conversations. Drawing on research conducted with 12 community radio stations, this article enlists Dreher and de Souza's idea of community radio as community 'listening posts': spaces for comm…
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…
Warming up: The potential of community radio for climate change communication in Australia
Climate change is already dramatically affecting the Australian landscape and way of life. These impacts are experienced locally, therefore responses must also be local, at least in part. There is an opportunity for Australia’s vibrant community radio sector to play a leading role in building community resilience around the effects of climate change. The importance of the sector in climate change communication is well-known: from emergency broadc…
Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication
An obituary for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) by travel and food writer Rowan Jacobsen (2016) commemorated its 'lifetime accomplishments' in Outside, the US outdoor recreational magazine. 'News' of the Reef's demise went viral and the economic and political furore that followed was immense. Tourism industries, especially reliant on international arrivals, were impacted as potential visitors accepted the Reef's passing as fact. Politicians sca…
Between Pride and Despair: Stories of Queensland's Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests
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Women of the Great Barrier Reef: Stories of Gender and Conservation
In the late 1970s, Carden Wallace was at the beginning of her lifelong exploration of the Great Barrier Reef — and indeed, reefs all over the world. For Wallace, who is now Emeritus Principal Scientist at Queensland Museum, the beginning of her Reef career coincided with the emergence of both feminist and environmental movements that meant her personal and professional lives would be entwined with a changing social, cultural and political milieu.…
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale
When Australian physicist, Peter Ridd, lost his tenured position with James Cook University, he was called a ‘whistleblower’, ‘contrarian academic’ and ‘hero of climate science denial’. In this article, we examine the events surrounding his dismissal to better understand the role of science communication in organised climate change scepticism. We discuss the sophistry of his complaint to locate where and through what processes science communicati…
The Local and the Digital in Environmental Communication
The Great Barrier Reef: News media, policy and the politics of protection
Since the 1970s, the Reef has been a site where Australian environmental policy has flourished, mirroring global environmental policy seeking to ‘balance’ human activity through ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The article examines the parallel and intersecting processes of modern environmental policy and news media practice in the context of the Reef to unveil how Australia's news media are communicating critical moments in the protection…
Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives
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…
Communication, culture, community and country: The lost seas of environmental policy
This paper draws on empirical research undertaken with local coastal action groups to explore a critical aspect of environmental policy, community participation in coastal and marine management. This project sought an engagement between broadly cultural studies, cultural policy studies and environmental policy. The overall aim of the research is to develop opportunities for governments to better communicate with local communities over coastal iss…
Land, Listening and Voice: Investigating Community and Media Representations of the Queensland Struggle for Land Rights and Equality
For the most part, the story of the Australian Indigenous land rights struggle has been told by the Australian media - media that have attracted consistent criticism for their portrayal of Indigenous Australians. On the other hand, Australia boasts a vibrant and accomplished Indigenous media sector that has also told the land rights story from a different perspective, albeit to a much smaller audience. The authors are currently a part of a resear…
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…
The Great Barrier Reef: News media, policy and the politics of protection
Since the 1970s, the Reef has been a site where Australian environmental policy has flourished, mirroring global environmental policy seeking to ‘balance’ human activity through ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The article examines the parallel and intersecting processes of modern environmental policy and news media practice in the context of the Reef to unveil how Australia's news media are communicating critical moments in the protection…
The Local and the Digital in Environmental Communication
Land, Listening and Voice: Investigating Community and Media Representations of the Queensland Struggle for Land Rights and Equality
For the most part, the story of the Australian Indigenous land rights struggle has been told by the Australian media - media that have attracted consistent criticism for their portrayal of Indigenous Australians. On the other hand, Australia boasts a vibrant and accomplished Indigenous media sector that has also told the land rights story from a different perspective, albeit to a much smaller audience. The authors are currently a part of a resear…
Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication
An obituary for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) by travel and food writer Rowan Jacobsen (2016) commemorated its 'lifetime accomplishments' in Outside, the US outdoor recreational magazine. 'News' of the Reef's demise went viral and the economic and political furore that followed was immense. Tourism industries, especially reliant on international arrivals, were impacted as potential visitors accepted the Reef's passing as fact. Politicians sca…
Communication, culture, community and country: The lost seas of environmental policy
This paper draws on empirical research undertaken with local coastal action groups to explore a critical aspect of environmental policy, community participation in coastal and marine management. This project sought an engagement between broadly cultural studies, cultural policy studies and environmental policy. The overall aim of the research is to develop opportunities for governments to better communicate with local communities over coastal iss…
Land, Listening and Voice: Investigating Community and Media Representations of the Queensland Struggle for Land Rights and Equality
For the most part, the story of the Australian Indigenous land rights struggle has been told by the Australian media - media that have attracted consistent criticism for their portrayal of Indigenous Australians. On the other hand, Australia boasts a vibrant and accomplished Indigenous media sector that has also told the land rights story from a different perspective, albeit to a much smaller audience. The authors are currently a part of a resear…
Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives
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…
The Great Barrier Reef: News media, policy and the politics of protection
Since the 1970s, the Reef has been a site where Australian environmental policy has flourished, mirroring global environmental policy seeking to ‘balance’ human activity through ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The article examines the parallel and intersecting processes of modern environmental policy and news media practice in the context of the Reef to unveil how Australia's news media are communicating critical moments in the protection…
The Local and the Digital in Environmental Communication
Between Pride and Despair: Stories of Queensland's Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Women of the Great Barrier Reef: Stories of Gender and Conservation
In the late 1970s, Carden Wallace was at the beginning of her lifelong exploration of the Great Barrier Reef — and indeed, reefs all over the world. For Wallace, who is now Emeritus Principal Scientist at Queensland Museum, the beginning of her Reef career coincided with the emergence of both feminist and environmental movements that meant her personal and professional lives would be entwined with a changing social, cultural and political milieu.…
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale
When Australian physicist, Peter Ridd, lost his tenured position with James Cook University, he was called a ‘whistleblower’, ‘contrarian academic’ and ‘hero of climate science denial’. In this article, we examine the events surrounding his dismissal to better understand the role of science communication in organised climate change scepticism. We discuss the sophistry of his complaint to locate where and through what processes science communicati…
Warming up: The potential of community radio for climate change communication in Australia
Climate change is already dramatically affecting the Australian landscape and way of life. These impacts are experienced locally, therefore responses must also be local, at least in part. There is an opportunity for Australia’s vibrant community radio sector to play a leading role in building community resilience around the effects of climate change. The importance of the sector in climate change communication is well-known: from emergency broadc…
Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication
An obituary for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) by travel and food writer Rowan Jacobsen (2016) commemorated its 'lifetime accomplishments' in Outside, the US outdoor recreational magazine. 'News' of the Reef's demise went viral and the economic and political furore that followed was immense. Tourism industries, especially reliant on international arrivals, were impacted as potential visitors accepted the Reef's passing as fact. Politicians sca…
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…
Listening for the local: Australian community radio and climate change communication
Climate change is most acutely experienced at the local level so conversations and action must be locally relevant. Australia's community radio sector is uniquely positioned - both as hyperlocal media and a platform for diverse voices - to facilitate these conversations. Drawing on research conducted with 12 community radio stations, this article enlists Dreher and de Souza's idea of community radio as community 'listening posts': spaces for comm…
Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef
Environmental communication has failed the Great Barrier Reef. After fifty years of communicating the need for protection and conservation, the Reef—like coral reefs globally—remains on the brink of ecological collapse. Australians and international communities are deeply connected to the Reef, a connection reflected in its central place in environmental policy and political debate, its economic significance to tourism, mining, fishing and relate…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works)