The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors

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The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors

This article charts the emergence and framing of anthropogenic climate change as risk through the lens of two metaphors: greenhouse effect and carbon footprint. We argue that the greenhouse effect metaphor provided the scientific basis for framing climate change as a risk, indeed it can be seen as p...

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Main Authors:	Nerlich, Brigitte, Hellsten, Iina
Format:	Article
Published:	Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse 2014
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3373/

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