Major climate-change issues covered by the daily newspapers of Bangladesh
Major climate-change issues covered by the daily newspapers of Bangladesh
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DOI：
10.1007/s10669-010-9305-6
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2011-01
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通讯作者：
Md. Danesh Miah;Md Humayain Kabir;M. Koike;S. Akther
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作者：
Md. Danesh Miah;Md Humayain Kabir;M. Koike;S. Akther
传播学研究学者、政治学家和政策分析家已经认识到新闻媒体在报道和描述公共问题方面的作用。如今，气候变化是国际社会关注的一个重要全球环境问题。研究气候变化问题的媒体报道对于了解全球和区域气候的现状、评估气候变化的成因、减缓和适应气候变化的技术及其不利影响具有重要意义。这项研究表明，在孟加拉国的三个最受欢迎的报纸，namelyThe Prothom Alo，The Daily Ittefaq，和The Daily星星在2006年5月至2009年6月在孟加拉国的报纸对气候变化的报道。自然灾害是报道最多的主要气候变化问题，沿着的还有农业、生物多样性、全球变暖、气候变化、犯罪、缺水、粮食短缺、政治、湿地、旅游、河流、林业和其他问题。在整个研究期间，报纸的报道优先考虑与气候变化问题有关的地方传播。该研究将有助于孟加拉国制定关于减缓和适应气候变化的宣传方案。
Communications research scholars, political scientists, and policy analysts have significantly recognized the role of news media in reporting and portraying public issues. Nowadays, climate change is an important global environmental concern for the world communities. Study on the media coverage of climate-change issues is vitally important to know the present situation of both the global and regional climate, as well as to assess the causes, mitigation and adaptation techniques, and its adverse impacts. This study demonstrates the coverage of newspapers in Bangladesh on climate change from May 2006 through June 2009 for the three most popular newspapers of Bangladesh, namelyThe Prothom Alo,The Daily Ittefaq, andThe Daily Star. Natural disasters was the major climate-change issue that received the most coverage, along with agriculture, biodiversity, global warming, climate change, crime, water scarcity, food scarcity, politics, wetlands, tourisms, rivers, forestry and miscellaneous issues. Local communication concerned with climate-change issues was given preference in the coverage by the newspapers throughout the study period. The study will be useful for awareness-program formulation on climate-change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh.