1st Edition
The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication
This handbook provides a comprehensive review of communication around rising global environmental challenges and public action to manage them now and into the future.
Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories, and areas of research. Chapters feature authors from a wide range of countries to critically review the genesis and evolution of environmental communication research and thus analyze current issues in the field from a truly international perspective, incorporating diverse epistemological perspectives, exciting new methodologies, and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks. The handbook seeks to challenge existing dominant perspectives of environmental communication from and about populations in the Global South and disenfranchised populations in the Global North.
The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication is ideal for scholars and advanced students of communication, sustainability, strategic communication, media, environmental studies, and politics.
What Is Environmental Communication? Introduction and Structure of the Field
- Expanding Conceptualizations of Environmental Communication Research
Bruno Takahashi, Julia Metag, Jagadish Thaker, and Suzannah Evans Comfort - Covering the Environment Beat: A Systematic Review of Research on News Media Coverage of the Environment
Bruno Takahashi, Ran Duan, Apoorva Joshi, Anthony Van Witsen, and Wenzhu Li - Media Effects in the Context of Environmental Issues
Kira Klinger and Julia Metag - The Internet of Natural Things: Environmental Communication Online and in Social Media
Mike S. Schäfer - Rhetorical Approaches in Environmental Communication
Casey R. Schmitt, Gabi Mocatta, and Joanne Marras Tate - Comparing the Literature of Science, Risk, and Environmental Communication
Nichole Bennett, Won-ki Moon, John Besley, and Anthony Dudo - Communicating Power and Resistance in the Global Food System: Emerging Trends in Environmental Communication
Constance Gordon and Kathleen P. Hunt - Plastic Communication Campaigns and Interventions: Foci, Theoretical Frameworks, Variables, and Methods
Ronald E. Rice and Cassandra M. Moxley - Plastic and the Environment: Background, Implications, and Challenges
Ronald E. Rice and Cassandra M. Moxley - The International Coverage of Biodiversity Loss
James Painter - Environmentalism of the Poor: Global South Perspectives on Environmental Communication
Jagadish Thaker - Rethinking Publics and Environmental Communication in Western and Eastern Cultures
Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Jingfang Liu - Prioritizing Development, Vying for Attention: Factors Influencing the Practice of Environmental Journalism in the Global South
Mira Rochyadi-Reetz and Dan Teng’o - Challenging the Nation-State: Indigenous Nations in Science and Environmental Communication
Ryan Comfort - Cultural Tailoring of Environmental Communication Interventions
Maria Knight Lapinski and John G. Oetzel - Environmental Communication Research in the French-Speaking World
Andrea Catellani, Céline Pascual Espuny, and Pudens Malibabo Lavu - Models of Attitudes, Intentions and Behaviors in Environmental Communication
Helena Bilandzic and Anja Kalch - The Role of Emotions in Environmental Communication
Jessica Gall Myrick and Jeff Conlin - Environmental Communication and Policy Makers
Birte Fähnrich and Alexander Ruser - Participatory Environmental Communication: Toward Enhanced Collaboration and Dialogue in Caribbean and Pacific Communities
Usha S. Harris and Rowie Kirby-Straker - Environmental Social Movements and Social Media
Jill E. Hopke and Lauren Paris - Social Media Influencers and Environmental Communication
Desirée Schmuck - Rewilding Environmental Communication through Transformative Teaching
Tema Milstein, John Carr, José Castro Sotomayor, and Mariko Oyama Thomas - Revolutionaries Needed! Environmental Communication as a Transformative Discipline
Franzisca Weder and Tema Milstein - Environmental Educommunication: EdTech’s Visual Media Trends for Environmental Learning
Fatima Viteri - Neuroimaging in Environmental Communication Research
Ralf Schmälzle, Shelby Wilcox, and Clare Grall - Virtual and Augmented Reality in Environmental Communication
Priska Breves and Esther Greussing - Ecological Crisis as a Laughing Matter: Uses of Humor in Environmental Communication
Jari Lyytimäki - Hearing Nature: Approaching International Environmental Communication through Music and Sound
Joshua Groffman and Olusegun Stephen Titus
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
Biography
Bruno Takahashi is Associate Professor of Environmental Journalism and Communication at Michigan State University, USA, with a joint appointment in the School of Journalism and AgBioResearch.
Julia Metag is Professor of Communication Science at the Department of Communication at the University of Muenster, Germany.
Jagadish Thaker is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Suzannah Evans Comfort is Assistant Professor in the Media School at Indiana University, USA.
"The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication brings together a brilliant group of interdisciplinary scholars to offer the latest theoretical and methodological developments in the field of environmental communication. This significant volume offers insights to environmental communication research by integrating cutting-edge approaches such as neuroimaging, and virtual and augmented reality. The editorial team went the extra mile to challenge existing dominant perspectives of environmental communication from and about populations in the Global South and disenfranchised populations in the Global North. This is a laudable endeavour that is sure to be valuable to scholars and students globally." – Shirley Ho, Professor of Communication at Nanyang Technological University and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Communication
