Daily Globe

Joe Smith is Lecturer in Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and Co-Director of the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme.

• Preface * Part I: Global Environmental Change, the Public and the Media * Part II: Reporting Global Environmental Change * Part III: Understanding Environment, the Public and the Media * Part IV: Making the Environment News * Appendix 1: Climate Change: a Note by the UK Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Robert M May, September 1997 * Appendix 2: The Present Status and the Future Prospects for Sir Robert M May * Index

'At a time when far too many people are still starry-eyed about the media's interest in covering the environment, The Daily Globe is a dose of harsh reality. It explains why most environment specialists have to spend their time reporting on disasters... rather than on the long-term developments that are shaping the future. I wish every senior editor would read it.' Alex Kirby, presenter, BBC Radio Four's Costing the Earth, former BBC environment correspondent.