Climate Change Collaboratory (Triple-C)

News

• 18 Apr 2012 - Launch of Climate Quiz [1], a Facebook game to investigate environmental attitudes and perceptions among social media users
• 01 Dec 2011 - Social Media as a Barometer of Environmental Policy (Content Analysis [2] of COP 17 Online Coverage)
• 22 Sep 2011 - Presentation of the Triple-C Initiative at the 12th Austrian Climate Day (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences)
• 02 June 2011 - Sustainovation 2011 [3] Conference
• 19 Nov 2010 - Improving Climate Change Communication: A Call to Action [4] by Thomas E. Bowman et al. published in 'Science'
• 16 Jun 2010 - Expert Workshop and Public Symposium [5]
• 12 Mar 2010 - Presentation at the 11th Austrian Climate Day
• 01 Mar 2010 - Start of the Project

Project Summary

The Climate Change Collaboratory (Triple-C) aims to strengthen the relations between environmental stakeholders who recognize the need for climate change adaptation and mitigation, but differ in their specific worldviews, goals and agendas.

For this purpose, the collaboratory provides tools to manage expert knowledge as well as a context-sensitive environment for creating and editing documents in a collaborative manner. Building upon the award-winning technology behind the Media Watch on Climate Change [6], the user's semantic context is provided by a real-time synchronization framework for rendering advanced visualizations including information landscapes, geographic projections, and ontology graphs. Innovative survey instruments in the tradition of “games with a purpose” create shared meaning through collaborative ontology building, and leverage the extensive user base of social networking platforms to capture indicators of environmental attitudes, lifestyles and behaviors.

Two project workshops help align Triple-C with the research activities of its associate partners [7], increase the project’s visibility, and foster the collaboration with leading international organizations.

Project Consortium

The Triple-C project is funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund within the program line ACRP (Austrian Climate Research Program). The project partners include MODUL University Vienna (Department of New Media Technology and Department of Public Governance and Management), the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Research Institute for Computational Methods), University of Graz (Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change), and the European Support Center of the Club of Rome.