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Engaging People with Carbon and Climate Change Using Landscape Scale Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring

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Handbook of Climate Change Communication: Vol. 1

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Climate change due to anthropogenic increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide is a global phenomenon with a recognised high public profile. The impacts of climate change, however, are mostly felt at a local level. Communicating climate change relevance where people live and where they can make a difference has proven a greater challenge. The Lancashire Wildlife Trust is engaging people, politicians and businesses with the local causes and impacts of climate change through collaborative working across the 100 km2 Carbon Landscape between Manchester and Liverpool. Past coal and peat extraction created the scarred landscapes today undergoing a renaissance as ecologically-rich wetlands. In the face of changing climate, a resilient ecosystem here is vital to ensure that carbon dioxide stays locked up in the remaining peat and restoration offers future sequestration possibilities. The Biodiverse Society Project engages people with wildlife recording and sensitises them to the impacts of climate change. Boosting the biological recording community increases the data available to planners and politicians for effective evidence-based management of landscape scale biodiversity. Reviewing these two projects identifies how engaging communities with landscape scale conservation approaches and including climate change messaging both bolsters local climate action and helps build the wider societal support needed.

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Acknowledgements

With thanks to Carbon Landscape partners: City of Trees; Healthy Rivers Trust; Wigan Council; Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles; Salford City Council; Warrington Borough Council; Natural England; Greater Manchester Ecology Unit; Woolston Eyes Conservation Group; University of Manchester.

With thanks to Neil Hewertson for the original planning of the Carbon Landscape Project at The Lancashire Wildlife Trust.

With thanks to Biodiverse Society partners: Lancashire Environment Record Network (LERN); Merseyside BioBank.

The Heritage Lottery Fund supports both the Carbon Landscape Project (Landscape Partnership award) and the Biodiverse Society Project (Heritage Grant). Further financial support was provided through partner core funds and other restricted grant funding.

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  1. The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside, The Barn, Berkeley Drive, Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, PR5 6BY, UK

    Adam Moolna, Cheryl Knott, Daveen Wallis, David Crawshaw, Joanne Brierley-Moore, Julia Simons & Anne Selby

  2. School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK

    Adam Moolna

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  1. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece

    Evangelos Manolas

  3. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  4. Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ulisses M. Azeiteiro

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Moolna, A. et al. (2018). Engaging People with Carbon and Climate Change Using Landscape Scale Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring. In: Leal Filho, W., Manolas, E., Azul, A., Azeiteiro, U., McGhie, H. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Communication: Vol. 1. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69838-0_16

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