2nd Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication

Edited By Anders Hansen, Robert Cox Copyright 2023
504 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

504 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

504 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This revised and fully updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication provides a state-of-the-art overview of environmental communication theory, practice and research. The momentous changes witnessed in the politics of the environment as well as in the nature of media and public communication in recent years have made the study and understanding of... Read more

Introduction

Anders Hansen and Robert Cox

PART I Environment, Communication and Environmental Communication: emergence and development of a field

1 Emergence and growth of the field of environmental communication

Robert Cox and Stephen Depoe

2 Social science approaches to environment, media and communication

James Cantrill

3 Discourse and rhetorical analysis approaches to environment, media, and communication

Jennifer Peeples and Mollie Murphy

4 Environmental Justice: a third pillar of environmental communication research

Taylor N. Johnson, Kensey I. Dressler, Nicolas Hernandez and Danielle Endres

5 The place of the environment in the field of communication for development and social change

Patrick Murphy

PART II Producing environmental communication: sources, communicators, media and media professionals

Sources/communicators

6 When environmental scientists go public

Sharon Dunwoody

7 The media/communication strategies of environmental NGOs

Robert Cox and Steve Schwarze

8 Managing the climate apocalypse: Think tanks, policy planning groups and the corporate capture of sustainable development

William Dinan and David Miller

9 Protests, publics and participation (still in an environmental age)

Libby Lester and Simon Cottle

10 Insights and opportunities in public participation practice: applying collaborative learning in environmental policy decision situations

Gregg B. Walker, Steven E. Daniels and Jens Emborg

Media and media professionals

11 Environmental reporters in a time of change

David B. Sachsman and JoAnn Myer Valenti

12 News organisation(s) and the production of environmental news

Alison Anderson

13 Improving environmental reporting: Forging synergies with citizen science and citizen journalism

Stuart Allan

14 Transformative Journalisms: How the global ecological crisis is transforming journalism

Michael Brüggemann, Jannis Frech and Torsten Schäfer

PART III Covering the environment: news media, entertainment media and cultural representations of the environment

News media

15 Big data and computational methods: methodological advances for analyzing mediated environmental communication

Valerie Hase and Mike S Schäfer

16 Communicating Climate Change in the Anthropocene: The dynamic cultural politics of climate change news coverage and social media around the world

Michael K. Goodman, Marisa M. McNatt and Maxwell T. Boykoff

17 Environmental communication, global trade and being here

Libby Lester

18 An introduction to misinformation and environmental communication

Christopher D. Wirz and Dominique Brossard

19 Online climate denialism: eco-systems and echo chambers

William Dinan, Chiara L Bernardi, Victoria Esteves and Steven Harkins

Entertainment media, advertising and cultural representations

20 Representations of the environment on television, and their effects

James Shanahan, Katherine McComas and Mary Beth Deline

21 Cartoons and the environment

Anne Marie Todd

22 Cinema, ecology and environment

Pat Brereton

23 Nature, environment and advertising

Anders Hansen

24 Cultural representations of the environment beyond mainstream media

Andy Opel

PART IV Social and political implications of environmental communication

25 Mapping media’s role in environmental thought and action

Susanna Priest

26 Public perceptions of climate change and their variation across audiences

Lorraine Whitmarsh and Kaloyan Mitev

27 Engaging diverse audiences with climate change: message strategies for Global Warming's Six Americas

Connie Roser-Renouf, Justin Rolfe-Redding, Neil Stenhouse, Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach

28 Communication and Community Transformation

Tarla Rai Peterson, Andrea Marie Feldpausch-Parker and Nicia Givá

29 (Dis)placed communication, solastalgia, and a climate change diaspora

James Cantrill and Rebecca Budesky

PART V Conclusions: future trajectories of environment and communication

30 Beyond the post-political zeitgeist 2.0

Pieter Maeseele

31 Speaking to the heart of the matter: the emergence of a humanistic environmental communication

Susanne Moser

Biography

Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK.

Robert Cox (PhD University of Pittsburgh) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication and the Curriculum in the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"Hansen and Cox’s updated Handbook powerfully illustrates the importance of environmental communication scholarship and practice in contributing to societal change. Reflecting upon the field’s achievements thus far, the editors and multiple authors of this collection also help (re)orient its future directions, making issues of justice a critical and necessary focus of its work."

Julie Doyle, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Brighton, UK.