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Presentation delivered by Dr Rebecca Edwards, Research Fellow, ESRC Third Sector Research Centre, at Communicate, 3rd November 2011, as part of the Living with Environmental Change session. Communicate is hosted by the Bristol Natural History Consortium www.communicatenow.org
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Dr Rebecca EdwardsResearch Fellow
ESRC Third Sector Research Centre
About our research• ‘Environment’ stream of the Third Sector
Research Centre• Three year programme of work exploring the
environment:– Mapping the environmental third sector– Mainstreaming of the environment across the
third sector: policy and implementation– Third sector innovations for low carbon practices
Importance of the third sector in environmental communication
• Third sector and its role in environmental communication
• Third sector is crucial to innovating news ways in communicating environment action:
– Social marketing– Values and frames– Towards an ecopsychology
How could more cross-sector working help?
• Sharing skills and knowledge• Maximising impact• Developing innovation with
capacity building• Many positive examples to
date
It isn’t easy being green…• Developing effective
approaches• Supporting multiple
ways of understanding approaches
• Finding a place in the big ‘green’ society
Learning more about partnership
• Need to know more about the third sector and the environment
• Learn about how cross-sector working can engage society with climate change mitigation and adaptation
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