1st Edition
Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication An A–Z Guide
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 synthesises 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. Included in this volume is a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-COVID setting:
• 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.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
General Appeal: Essential Concepts for Environmental Communications
General Introduction
A-Z entries
Access to nature and love of nature: Case study Eco-tourism and Star Wars in Ireland
Advertising and Nature: How Environmental Issues are Projected in Media and PR
Affluence versus sustainable consumption in addressing Climate Change
Agency and childhood innocence in animation: Promoting Environmental Activism:
(Case study of Ferngully and Princess Mononoke.)
Agenda Setting and News Media coverage of Environmental Issues
Anthropomorphism, human love and the personification of animals: Blackfish
Anti-nuclear modes of environmental thinking – case study of Chernobyl
Avant Garde stories: Popularising Environmental Themes and Issues – Deseret
Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and Climate Change
Blue Humanities: increasing Carbon and Waste Emissions
Carbon lock-in: a strategy for dealing with stranded assets – communicating the challenges
Circular Economy: Environmental Media, Inclusive and Just Transition - Snowpiercer
Circular Economy Finance and its Limitations
Citizen Media Engagement and Strategies used for Audience Reception Studies
Climate Literacy and Environmental Activism - Ozark
Climate Markets and Cap and Trade as Practical Environmental-Economic Solutions
Cognitive Dissonance and Eco-modernism
Communication/Media Models used for Environmental Communication
Community Engagement / Environmental Citizenship - ‘Change by Degrees’
Conservation as an Environmental Strategy towards evaluating Wilderness - Yellowstone
Consumption and the Diderot Effect: Sustainable Reduction, Reuse and Recycle
Coronavirus: Health and Effective Environmental Communication – Contagion
Creative Imaginary used to explore Solutions to Climate Change - 2040
Critical Theory and Environmental Communication
Critique of Historical Western Consumer Society – case study of A Christmas Carol
De-growth: Radical Solutions for Climate Change Stability
Democratic Deficit: From Techno-fix to Gaia - the War Narrative
Ecological Modernism and Sustainable Development: Our Common Future
Eco-villages – Case study of Cloughjordan: an Irish Transitional and Sustainable Project
Ecocriticism and the Growth of Environmental Communication
Eco-materialism: Case Study of the Real Environmental Cost of Media Production
Education versus Disinformation: Promoting Environmental Literacy
Effects Theory and Environmental Behavioural Change
Employment opportunities: Feeding into Environmental Communications HE Courses.
Enclosure Movement and Tragedy of the Commons
Energy Humanities: From Fossil Fuels to the Carbon Economy
Energy Landscapes and Media Perceptions: Case study of Ireland
Environmental Media Risk Campaigns: Best Practice Protocols
Environmental Citizenship as a model of engaging Humans around Climate Change
Environmental Management of the Media: Marrying Mindmapping and Carbon Footprinting
Environmental Justice: Case study India
Environmental Justice: Case study of Representations of Inuit in The Terror (Nora Doorley)
Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Renewable Energy in Postcolonial Morocco
Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Uruguay (Victoria Gomez)
Fake News, Post Truth and Environment Communication – The Social Dilemma
Fast Fashion, The Third World and the Circular Economy
Free Press theory versus Social Responsibility Model of Media: Case Study Climategate
Green Transformation and Global Citizen Engagement - Green New Deal (Naomi Klein)
Greening the Higher Education Curriculum: Drawing on the power of Children’s Media
Greening the Media: Drawing on Scholarship in using New Environmental Media Journals
Greenwashing The Corporate and Media Industry; PR limitations and CSR
Greenwashing Lite: Celebrity Culture and Green Product Placement: Down to Earth
Historical Environmental Representations of Communal Living: Happy as Lazarro
Hippie Counter Culture, Active Environmental Agency and Eco-Spirituality: Leave No Trace
Human Rights violation and Climate Change: Who should pay!
Intersectionality and eco-citizenship: Drawing on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity Debates
Jevon’s Paradox, Energy Efficiency and its Environmental Application: Case Study F1
Just Transition and Energy: from Fossil Fuels to Renewables - Peat workers in Ireland
Legal Representations of Environmental Agency: Case Studies of Dark Waters
Linguistic Discourse and ecocriticism – Naming the Crisis!
Literary Tropes for Representing Low Carbon Futures
Mediatization of Climate Change with a focus on Environmental Concerns
Media Coverage of Climate Change debate: triggers for promoting Environmental Literacy
Multi-level perspective (MLP) analysis of Climate Change
Museums and Curating Exhibitions as a model for Representations of Climate Change
Native (Invader) species: Representations and Effects on Bio-diversity
Natural Capital as a Business Response in dealing with Climate Change
Nature Based Solutions – A Life on our Planet
NIMBY’ism (Not in my back yard): Case Study of Renewable Energy
Non-Conventional Environmental Activism: a case study of Women at War
Organic signifiers of communication with a national eco-system – Tree of Life
Overton window and Making Radical Political Environmental Decisions
Pastoralism as model of Human’s love of Nature in Literature and Film
Peak Oil and ‘Keep it in the Ground’: contested environmental debates
Petrofiction, Petrochemical Emissions: Reaching Dangerous Limits
Posthumanism and Ecological Thinking
Postmodernism and Climate Change Communication
Population overshoot: our Ecological Footprint and loss of Biodiversity - Downsizing
Queer Theorising and Nature: New modes of imagining Gender – Brokeback Mountain
Regenerative Soil and overcoming Desertification: Case Study of Kiss the Ground
Religious Fanaticism and Romanticisation of Nature: Case Study of A Hidden Life
Renewable Energy Debates and Critiques: Case study of Planet of the Humans
Risk Society and Climate Change
Sensory Big Data and Art: Communicating through the Five Senses
Shock Doctrine and Pandemics: as a precursor for the Climate Crisis
Sixth Extinction and Environmental Disasters
Slow Violence and Poverty: Lack of Equity in Representing Environmental Scholarship
Social Media and Climate Change Communication: A Tool for Innovation!
Spiritual Representations of Environmental Agency: First Reformed
Sustainable Communication and Environmental New Media research
Sustainability Accounting – (Aideen O'Dochartaigh, DCU Business School)
Tipping point around climate change transformation – Audience Research
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) and Environmental Communication
Utopian Environmental Messaging: Lessons from Hollywood and guides to Young People
Veganism and Promoting Environmental Values through Celebrity Endorsement
Water Documentaries as Public Service Announcement (PSA) - Irish Water Conflict
Weather Documentary Scholarship: Mediating Climate Change Effects and Public Opinion
Westerns reflecting Deep Environmental Issues and Nature’s Revenge: Wild River
Wind Energy: Storytelling, Renewable Energy and Community Adaptation
World Bank (The) and Developing Effective Financial Environmental Communication
*Final Essay: The Future of Environmental Communications – Overcoming Anxiety
[A-Z Audio Visual Case Studies]
Biography
Pat Brereton is a Professor in the School of Communications and is Co-Director of the Climate and Society Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland.
"In the ever-expanding field of environmental humanities, Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A-Z Guide is a commendable collection that constitutes instances of a wide range of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature. In the background of the post-COVID challenges of sustainability, this collection addresses climate change through the lens of media and communications. This book highlights challenging notions and ideas that will continue to define this developing multidisciplinary topic even as it aims to compile writings and reflections from a wide spectrum of studies in the connected fields."
- Green Letters, Dipayan Dutta, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
