Question

4. Identify some of the communication barriers faced by supporters of

environmental awareness?

Explain communication process and components.

Give examples of communication barriers.

What are the five stages of adoption of innovations?

Analyze challenges and opportunities in communicating climate change.

Why do you care about climate change and give examples?

Why is it important to communicate effectively about climate change?

Answer 1

1 . Good environment with proper lighting and ventilation improve the quality of communication. In Communication Barriers  The major physical environmental barriers are Time, Place, Climate and Noise, Space.  Some may prove to be tough obstacles some of them are easy to alter whereas,in the process of effective communication.

2. The communication process is done up of four key elementsThose elements include encoding, medium of transmission, decoding, and feedback. There are also two other parts in the process, and those two parts are present in the form of the sender and the receiver.The communication process assume sharing, understanding, and meaning, and it contains of eight essential components: source, message, channel, receiver, feedback, environment, context, and interference.

3.  BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

• Physical and physiological barriers
• Emotional and cultural noise
• Language
• Information overload and lack of focus
• Not being prepared, lack of credibility
• Nothing or little in common
• Lack of eye contact
• Talking too much

Many barriers to a proper communication exist. Examples include filtering, selective perception, emotional disconnects, information overload lack of source credibility, semantics, gender differences, workplace gossip differences in meaning between sender and receiver, and biased language

4.The stages of an innovation, ie an innovation process, can be divided into Idea, collection of innovation potentials, derivation of ideas, evaluation and release of ideas.

The 5 stages to Adopting an Innovation is

Awareness. The individual is simply aware the innovation

Interest. The individual wants more information

Evaluation

Trial and

Adoption.

5. Climate Change is a hybrid problem in which unreliability is a component inherent to the inability to control and even to recognize all the variables involved and to know how they relate to each other,especially for predictive uses and to move from sub regional or local level,or global to regional .

Climate change communication is about informing,educating, warning, persuading, solving and mobilizing this critical problem. At a longer level, climate change communication is shaped by our various experiences, mental and cultural models, and underlying values and worldviews.

6.  Changes in climate can affect water availability, food production, wildlife and human health. Weather conditions, such as storms, can damage infrastructure like buildings, roads, rail networks .

Climate change will mean huge changes for animals around the globe. we must care about how climate change will make it harder for them to find food, and living. Warmer ocean temperatures and air  cause coral bleaching, where corals lose their colour and may die.

7.  At a deeper level, climate change communication is shaped by mental and cultural models,our various experiences and underlying values and worldviews.Climate change communication is about informing,educating, warning, persuading, solving and mobilizing this critical problem.