The project involves the development of new interdisciplinary knowledge and approaches to best practices in coastal Louisiana environmental communication through a case study on the communication of global climate change impacts in Louisiana, and the creation of a new Coastal Environmental Communication undergraduate (4000 level) course in the Manship School of Mass Communication. Project Update, April 23, 2014. http://css.lsu.edu/environmental-communication/. Google Document of Interview codes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AH9A591SKI7rjLF4JB2_TYwne99uHoEZliLg_rPT3-Q/edit?usp=sharing.

1. Environmental
Communication
Quarterly Update
Paige Brown, Zeynep Altinay, Amy Reynolds
& Contributors

2. Interviews with
Environmental
Psychologists
 Complete: Interviews with 10 Environmental
Psychologists with prominence in the field
 Current Status: Interviews fully coded in AtlasTi
– manuscript results section underway
Link to Google Doc with Interview Codes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AH9A591SKI7rj
LF4JB2_TYwne99uHoEZliLg_rPT3-Q/edit?usp=sharing

3. Codes of Qualitative Interviews with 10 Environmental Psychologists
Brown, Paige (2014):Things that Motivate
Pro-Environmental Behavior. figshare.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.996590

4. Interviews of
Environmental
Communicators
 Complete: Interviews with 10 Environmental
Communicators Complete - Interviews all fully
transcribed
 Current Status: Coding & Analysis soon by
Zeynep Altinay

5. Surveyof
Louisiana
Residents:
Results
Underway
Questions:
1) Please tell me your top source of news &
information on environmental problems and issues.
2)When a long-term environmental problem occurs,
such as climate change, coastal land loss, flooding
and so on, what do you want to know the most? a)
What caused the problem b) How the problem will affect
the economy c) How the problem will affect nature
around me d) How the problem will affect people in my
community
Do you think your local media is doing a good job
providing you with this information?
3) In terms of solving environmental problems such as
climate change, coastal land loss, and flooding, which
of the following would you like to know most about?
a)What my community is doing about these issues b)
What I can do to help solve these environmental
problems c)What I can do to adapt to new conditions in
my environment d) How government can address these
problems
Do you think your local media is doing a good job
providing you with this information?

6. Survey of Louisiana Residents
When a long-term environmental problem occurs, such as climate change, coastal
land loss, flooding and so on, what do you want to know the most?

7. Course
Syllabus
Underway