The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication

This Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for theory, research and practice with regard to environment and communication, and it does this from a perspective which is both international and multi-disciplinary in scope. Offering comprehensive critical reviews of the history and state of the art of research into the key dimensions of environmental communication, the chapters of this handbook together demonstrate the strengths of multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the centrality of communication to how the environment is constructed, and indeed contested, socially, politically and culturally. Organised in five thematic sections, The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication includes contributions from internationally recognised leaders in the field. The first section looks at the history and development of the discipline from a range of theoretical perspectives. Section two considers the sources, communicators and media professionals involved in producing environmental communication. Section three examines research on news, entertainment media and cultural representations of the environment. The fourth section looks at the social and political implications of environmental communication, with the final section discussing likely future trajectories for the field. The first reference Handbook to offer a state of the art comprehensive overview of the emerging field of environmental communication research, this authoritative text is a must for scholars of environmental communication across a range of disciplines, including environmental studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: environment and communication Part I Environment, communication and environmental communication: emergence and development of a field 1 Emergence and growth of the "field" of environmental communication 2 Communication, media and the social construction of the environment 3 Discourse/rhetorical analysis approaches to environment, media, and communication 4 Social science approaches to environment, media, and communication Part II Producing environmental communication: sources, communicators, media and media professionals Sources/communicators 5 Environmental scientists and public communication 6 The media/communication strategies of environmental pressure groups and NGOs 7 Resisting meaningful action on climate change: think tanks, ‘merchants of doubt’ and the ‘corporate capture’ of sustainable development 8 Transnational protests, publics and media participation (in an environmental age) 9 Public participation in environmental policy decision making: insights from twenty years of collaborative learning fieldwork 10 To act in concert: environmental communication from a social movement lens Media and media professionals 11 The changing face of environmental journalism in the United States 12 Environmental reporters 13 The changing ecology of news and news organizations: implications for environmental news 14 News organisation(s) and the production of environmental news 15 Citizen science, citizen journalism: new forms of environmental reporting 16 Environmental news journalism, public relations and news sources Part III Covering the environment: news media, entertainment media and cultural representations of the environment News media 17 News coverage of the environment: a longitudinal perspective 18 Communicating in the Anthropocene: the cultural politics of climate change news coverage around the world 19 Containment and reach: the changing ecology of environmental communication Entertainment media and cultural representations 20 Representations of the environment on television, and their effects 21 Cartoons and the environment 22 Cinema, ecology and environment 23 Nature, environment and commercial advertising 24 Celebrity culture and environment 25 Cultural representations of the environment beyond mainstream media Part IV Social and political implications of environmental communication 26 Mapping media’s role in environmental thought and action 27 Agenda-setting with environmental issues 28 Framing, the media, and environmental communication 29 Analysing public perceptions, understanding and images of environmental change 30 Publics, communication campaigns, and persuasive communication 31 Engaging diverse audiences with climate change: message strategies for Global Warming’s Six Americas Part V Conclusions: future trajectories of environment and communication 32 Beyond the post-political zeitgeist 33 Whither the heart(-to-heart)? Prospects for a humanistic turn in environmental communication as the world changes darkly