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This chapter summarises the five principles for public engagement described in previous chapters, proposes a tried-and-tested model for initiating a national climate change conversation (Narrative Workshops), and outlines criteria for judging whether a fresh approach was ‘working’. New voices to catalyse engagement, new stories that resonate with diverse public values, and the cultivation of climate citizenship: these are the principles that can lift the energy and climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream. It is time to start talking climate.
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Corner, A., Clarke, J. (2017). Five Principles and a Model for Public Engagement. In: Talking Climate. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46744-3_7
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