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