Environmental communication and the public sphere. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Cox, J. Robert; Pezzullo, Phaedra C
• Contents: Introduction: Speaking for/About the Environment; PART I: COMMUNICATING FOR/ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT; Chapter 1. Studying/Practicing Environmental Communication; The Study of Environmental Communication; Nature, Communication, and the Public Sphere; Diverse Voices in a “Green” Public Sphere; Global Study of Environmental Communication; Chapter 2. Contested Meanings of Environment; Learning to Love Nature; Wilderness Preservation Versus Natural Resource Conservation; Public Health and the Ecology Movement; Environmental Justice: Linking Social Justice and Environmental Quality; Movements for Sustainability and Climate Justice; PART II: CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT; Chapter 3. Symbolic Constructions of Environment; A Rhetorical Perspective; Communication Frames; Dominant and Critical Discourses; Chapter 4. The Environment in/of Visual and Popular Culture; The Environment and Popular Culture; Looking at the Environment; Moving Images of Disasters; Green Art, Marketing, and Graphic Design; Chapter 5. News Media and Environmental Journalism (Old and New); Growth and Changes in Environmental News; News Production and the Environment; Media Effects; Digital Technologies and the Transformation of Environmental News; PART III: COMMUNICATING IN AN AGE OF ECOLOGICAL CRISES; Chapter 6. Scientists, Technology, and Environmental Controversies; Science, Technology, and Symbolic Legitimacy; The Precautionary Principle; Early Warners: Environmental Scientists and the Public; Science and the Trope of Uncertainty; Communicating Climate Science; Chapter 7. Environmental Risk Communication and the Public; Dangerous Environments: Assessing Risk; Communicating Environmental Risks in the Public Sphere; Citizens Becoming Scientists; Mainstream News Media and Environmental Risk; PART IV: ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNS AND MOVEMENTS; Chapter 8. Advocacy Campaigns and Message Construction; Environmental Advocacy; Environmental Advocacy Campaigns; The Campaign to Protect Zuni Salt Lake; Message Construction; Chapter 9. Digital Media and Environmental Activism; Grassroots Activism and Digital Media; Environmental NGOs and Digital Campaigns; Multimodality and Networked Campaigns; Scaling Up: The “Peoples Climate March”; Chapter 10. Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Movements; Environmental Justice: Challenging a Place Apart; Challenging Indecorous Voices and Sacrifice Zones; The Global Movement for Climate Justice; Chapter 11. Sustainability and the “Greening” of Corporations and Campuses; Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Free Market Discourse and the Environment; Corporate Sustainability Communication: Reflection or Deflection?; Greenwashing and the Discourse of Green Consumerism; Communicating Sustainability on and Through Campuses; PART V: CITIZEN VOICES AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORUMS; Chapter 12. Public Participation in Environmental Decisions; Right to Know: Access to Information; Right to Comment; SLAPP: Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation; Growth of Public Participation Internationally; Chapter 13. Managing Conflict: Collaboration and Environmental Disputes; New Approaches to Environmental Disputes; Collaborating to Resolve Environmental Conflicts; Limits of Collaboration and Consensus; Common Criticisms of Collaboration; Chapter 14. Citizens’ (and Nature’s) Standing: Environmental Protection and the Law; Right of Standing and Citizen Suits; Landmark Cases on Environmental Standing; Global Warming and the Right of Standing; Do Future Generations and Non-Human Nature Have a Right of Standing?;
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.72014; Communication in the environmental sciences; Mass media and the environment
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483379272
• Related ISBNs: 9781483344331
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