Christine Carmichael, a student staff member at the Knight Center, is giving an oral presentation at the International Symposium for Society and Resource Management in Hanover, Germany, June 9-13^.

The presentation, Towards a strategic understanding of potential partner expectations in the collaborative development of an urban outdoor recreation center,will outline findings from a research project conducted between January and June 2013 for Oakland County Parks and Recreation in Michigan.

In collaboration with Dan McCole in the Department of Community Sustainability, Christine conducted 20 indepth interviews with lead staff at a range of organizations aiming to increase participation in outdoor recreation among urban populations in southeast Michigan.
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Knight Center Research Director Bruno Takahashi has published a chapter in the book “Culture, Politics and Climate Change: How Information Shapes Our Common Future” edited by Deserai Crow and Max Boykoff.
The chapter, “Re-examining the Media-Policy Link: Climate Change and Government Elites in Peru,” explores the ways in which policymakers in the Peruvian Congress use in their decisions the information the media produces about climate change.
The chapter was co-authored with Mark Meisner (International Environmental Communication Association), and is part of a collection of studies examining the role of culture, the media, politics, and policy making in the social construction of climate change.
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Doctoral candidate Carol Terracina Hartman is presenting a paper examining the use of social media among nonprofit environmental groups at a June conference in Amsterdam.
Sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, the Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space annual conference takes place at the University of Amsterdam.
The paper accepted for presentation is “Communication and Sustainability: Exploring nonprofit environmental groups use of social media.”
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