News coverage probably attracts most attention here, but the contributors from communication and journalism, other social sciences, and other professions and disciplines, also consider fiction, audience perceptions, new media, the role of activists, and practices of the media industry itself as these relate to global climate change. Specific topics include the ideological construction of climate change in Australian and New Zealand newspapers, challenges for the climate change docudrama in both entertaining and informing audiences, the role of environmental non-governmental organizations and grassroots movements in the global politics of climate change, and preparations for a post-Kyoto media coverage of British climate policy. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)