Eco Tourism in the Amazon Region | Sustainability | Digitalisation | Synergetic Stories | PRODIGEES

Watch the fifth episode of our video series on synergetic stories about sustainability and digitalisation. This time, Yuliana Mansur, Sabrina Heuwinkel and Ramona Hägele are visiting Prazeres Quaresma. She is chef in the eco restaurant Saudosa Maloca on Combu Island. How can you run a restaurant in such a sensitive ecosystem as the Amazon region? And what does eco-tourism mean for the people who live here? The science communication series is part of the PRODIGEES project funded by the European Commission.
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Science communication plays a crucial role in setting the scene for gaining an understanding of the complexity of the multiple crises. Disseminating data and valid information based on empirical evidence is essential if we want to meet the challenges. Using research results from psychology and cognitive science, the neuroscientist Maren Urner explains that people experience exhaustion during information intake and processing, both on a cognitive and physical level. As negative information is processed faster and is more likely to achieve a high outreach, mass media and social media focus on bad news.
Maren Urner offers a new way to react to this challenge: constructive journalism. This approach assumes a negative bias in the media landscape and calls for a rethink. Instead of focusing on what is going wrong in the world, constructive journalism aims to provide audiences with a comprehensive and contextualized picture. It intends to restore a balance by looking at problems and at solutions as well.
What can #sciencecommunication learn from constructive journalism? If we want to foster cooperation and make change and action possible for a transformation towards sustainability, science communication can show the broader picture. Let’s tell synergetic stories!