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What is environmental communication? Introduction and structure of the field -- Classical approaches to environmental communication research -- Thematic chapters -- Internationalising Environmental Communication Research -- Engagement with environmental affairs -- Environmental communication as education -- Emerging areas in environmental communication research.

"Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. As anxieties around degrading environments increase, so too do the number and volume of voices vying for the opportunity to express their experiences, beliefs, anxieties, knowledge and proposals for meaningful change. Nature itself speaks through, and perhaps to, individuals who advocate on behalf of the environment. This collection includes nine original essays organized into three sections: Voice and Environmental Advocacy, Voice and Consumption, and Listening to Non-human Voices. Four notable scholars reflect on these chapters, and provide both an audience to the scholars as well as a forum for extending their own understanding of voice and the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication. "--

"The Sixth Edition of the award-winning Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the best-selling comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. Phaedra Pezzullo and Robert Cox examine how we define what constitutes an environmental problem and how we decide what actions to take concerning the natural world. The updated and revised Sixth Edition explores recent events and research that have emerged since the last edition, including: fast fashion, global youth climate strikes, biodiversity loss, disability rights advocacy, single-use plastic ban controversies, COVID-19, and more"--

This commentary considers the separate but interconnected evolution of science communication and environmental communication as fields of research and practice, and argues for better mutual understanding between the fields, including an understanding of necessary differences. It notes that the repertoires of science communication and environmental communication overlap but have different emphases. Environmental communication emphasises public allegiances with a view to persuasion; science communication has focussed on public understanding and appreciation of science. The potential and the need for closer cooperation are growing as the authority of science is challenged in political arenas. Both fields recognise the important contributions of science to public sense-making and informed decision-making on major issues. Increasing engagement with the science that underpins environmental issues could benefit environmental communicators. In political contexts, science communication could learn from environmental communication's greater attention to advocacy and symbolic representations.

This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment. The starting point for this book is the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge in which practices claiming to be based on principles of dialogue and participation have spread across diverse social fields. As in other fields of social practice in the dialogic turn, the model of communication underpinning science and environmental governance is dialogue in which scientists and citizens engage in mutual learning on the basis of the different knowledge forms that they bring with them. The official aim is to involve citizens in processes of decision-making on scientific and environmental issues, including issues relating to the built environment such as urban planning. The attempt in this book has been made to build bridges across the fields of science and technology studies, environmental studies, and media and communication studies in order to provide theoretically informed and empiri ally rich accounts of how citizen voices are articulated, invoked, heard, marginalised or silenced in science and environment communication

The coastal terrain -- Communication, culture and the coast -- Coastal policy and meaningful community participation -- Communication, coasts and media democracy -- Coasts, communication and policy : the Cabarita Beach/Bogangar experience -- Critical coastal policy and environmental communication : new directions? -- Conclusion

Chapter 1 – The child/nature relationship -- Chapter 2 – Environmental and media literacies -- Chapter 3 – Covering the environment in children's news -- Chapter 4 – The greening of children's television -- Chapter 5 – Nature on screen in children's film -- Chapter 6 – Young explorers in virtual worlds -- Chapter 7 – The mainstreaming of children's voices in environmental communication.

"This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental communications. Addressing this challenge, Essential Concepts for Environmental Communication synthesizes summary writings from a broad range of environmental theorists, while teasing out provocative concepts and key ideas that frame this evolving, multi-disciplinary field. Each entry maps out an important concept or environmental idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across the growing field of environmental communication debates. Including a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-Covid setting, this volume: Offers cutting-edge analysis of the current state of environmental communications. Presents an up-to-date exploration of environmental and sustainable development models at a local and global level. Provides an in-depth exploration of key concepts across the ever-expanding environmental communications field. Examines the interaction between environmental and media communications at all levels. Provides a critical review of contemporary environmental communications literature and scholarship. With key bibliographical references and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- I Representations of the Human Body -- 2 Toward an Audience-Centered Approach : Rhetorical Analysis of University Crisis Communication Emails -- 3 Embodied Risk Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic Environment -- 4 Judging the Unprecedented : Common Sense and Risk During COVID-19 -- 5 First-Year College Students Challenging Embodied Environmental Risk -- II Representations of the Earth's Body -- 6 The Ohio River: Re-Imagining Water Risk through Embodied Deliberation -- 7 Private Groundwater Contamination and Integrated Risk Communication -- 8 Public Responses to a Proposed Wind Farm and their Application to Technical Communication Methods -- 9 Evaluating Ecological Perceptions and Approaches in the Fourth National Climate Assessment Report -- III Representations of Human Beings and Earth Together -- 10 Reconciling Gestures: Overcoming Obstacles to Transcultural Risk Communication in South African Coal Mines -- 11 Reanimating Risks: Forest Giants and their Role in Technical Communication -- 12 Technical Writing as Embodiment: iFixit -- 13 Changing Places: Understanding Climate Change Risk Communication and Comprehension through Socially Constructed Features of Place -- 14 An Antiracist Rhetoric of Embodied Risk -- Index.

1. What is Environmental Communication and Why is it Important? -- 2. Potential and Limitations of Environmental Communication -- 3. Understanding Communication -- Insights from Theories of Communication -- 4. Decision models -- What Psychological Theories Teach Us about People's Behaviour -- 5. Communication in Large Social Systems -- How Information Spreads through Societies -- 6. Traditional and New Media -- About Amplification and Negation -- 7. Target Group Segmentation -- Why Knowing your Audience is Important -- 8. An Overview of Communication-Based Intervention Techniques -- 9. Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviour in Groups and Organisations -- 10. Playing Good? -- Environmental Communication through Games and Simulations -- 11. Rock Festivals, Sport Events, Theatre -- Some Out-of-the-Ordinary Means of Environmental Communication.

Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism considers tourism public relations as elite reputation management, and applies models of political conflict and source-media relations to the analysis of the 'soft' genre of travel journalism. The book seeks to understand how, in whose interests and against what odds discourses of cosmopolitanism and place-branding influence the way travel journalists represent vulnerable and contested environments. Informed by interviews with journalists and their sources, Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism identifies and theorises networks, cultures, discursive strategies and multiple loyalties that can assist or interrupt flows of environmental concern in the cosmopolitan public sphere. The book should be of interest to scholars of environmental communication, environmental politics, journalism, tourism, marketing and public relations.