The workshop "Individual and collective representations of climate change : interdisciplinary perspectives", organized by the Paris Consortium Climate-Environment-Society (GIS Climat- Environnement-Société), was held in Meudon on March 8, 2013.

Workshop outline
Climate change has in recent years moved from being mainly a physical phenomenon to being simultaneously a political, social, cultural and ethical phenomenon. At present, both individual and collective attitudes and behavior seem an equally serious challenge in the climate issue as scientific knowledge of the phenomenon itself. In this the various representations of climate change are crucial. The understanding of such representations, which would contribute to an improvement of the climate change knowledge base, calls for interdisciplinarity. With this as a starting point, the present workshop aims at generating fruitful discussions on different kinds of representations (linguistic, cognitive, cultural, social) and on the possibilities for cross disciplinary collaboration.

Program
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Synthesis
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The speakers' presentations

Introduction
Chantal Pacteau, CNRS, Paris Research Consortium « Climate-Environment-Society ».
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Linguistic representations of climate change discourse and their individual and collective interpretations: the LINGCLIM interdisciplinary project.
Kjersti Fløttum, Institutt for fremmedspråk , Dept of foreign languages, University of Bergen.
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Cognitive representations of climate change in contrasted environmental and cultural contexts.
Annamaria Lammel, Maître de conférences en Psychologie, Laboratoire Paragraphe, University Paris VIII.
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Studying social and linguistic representations of climate change in online spaces: the case of reader comments.
Dr Nelya Koteyko, Department of Media and Communication, University of Leceister.
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Appraisals and emotions in climate change perceptions.
Gisela Böhm, Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen
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Imaginary of climate change: discursive and iconic developments.
Ferenc Fodor, EDF Research and Development.
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