Name: Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere von Robert Cox
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Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere Robert Cox

'...this is an excellent introduction to an important topic' - Media International Australia

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the first comprehensive undergraduate textbook in the growing field of environmental communication. It takes as its theme the role of communication in influencing the ways in which we perceive the environment as well as what actions we and others take in our relations to the natural world. The text blends scholarship and hands-on experiences to provide a theory-based and coherent description of the concrete communication practices and sites in the debates over environment protection.

The level of presentation targets upper-level, undergraduate students in speech communication, environmental studies, English, journalism, political science, and sociology. Additional theory and vocabulary are introduced, as are case studies and examples for closer examination of the principal sites and practices of environmental communication - including forums for public participation, advocacy campaigns, media coverage of environmental stories, risk communication, and models of dispute settlement.

Key Features:

- Provides a core text (broad and theoretically coherent coverage) that covers all of the basic areas of environmental communication

- Draws on the author's experiences as president of the largest U.S. environmental group

- Summarizes current scholarship in the area and makes accessible many of the practices of media, corporations, and advocacy groups that are not readily available in public sources

- Gives students insight into the practical ways to participate publicly in influencing the decisions of governmental agencies that affect the environment

- Offers a comprehensible treatment of the complexity and range of issues, sites, and practices in environmental communication

Act Locally exercises provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of the principles of environmental communication on their campus or community

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere Bewertungen

Writing for undergraduate students, Cox explains how communication shapes perceptions of environmental issues; surveys some of the media and public forums that are used for environmental communications and some of the communication practices of ordinary citizens, scientists, corporate lobbyists, and others seeking to influence decisions about nature and the human environment; and identifies conversations and debates taking place locally and globally that students and activists can join. -- SciTech * Book News *
This all combines into an intensive introduction to an important aspect of communication-written by a man who has played an active part in the field about which he writes.

-COMMUNICATION BOOKNOTES QUARTERLY -- Christopher H. Sterling * Communication Booknotes Quarterly - Vol 39:I January-March 2008 *

Über Robert Cox

Robert Cox is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His principal research areas are environmental and climate change communication and strategic studies of social movements. A internationally-recognized leading scholar who helped found the field of environmental communication, Cox is coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (2015; second edition forthcoming), editor of the four-volume reference series Environmental Communication (Sage, 2016), and the author of numerous studies of environmental and climate change campaigns. He has served three times (1994-1996; 2000-2001; 2007-2008) as president of the Sierra Club, the largest grassroots U.S. environmental organization, and was also on the board of directors for Earth Echo International, whose mission is to empower youth to take action that restores and protects our water planet. Cox also continues to advise environmental groups on their communication programs. He regularly participates in environmental and climate change initiatives and has campaigned with former vice president Al Gore, singer Melissa Etheridge, and other public figures. He also enjoys hiking and trekking in the Himalayas, Europe, and the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Speaking for the Environment - For Ourselves Part I: Conceptual Perspectives 1. The Study of Environmental Communication Environmental Communication as an Area of Study Nature, Communication, and the Public Sphere Mapping the Terrain: Voices and Visions 2. Rhetorically Shaping the Environment The Environmental Movement in the United States A Rhetorical Perspective on the Environment Visual Rhetorics: Portraying Nature Part II: Citizen Voices and Public Forums 3. Public Participation in Environmental Decisions The Right to Know: Access to Information The Right of Public Comment The Right of Standing: Citizen Suits Citizens' Communication and Public Participation Restricting Public Participation in the Post-9/11 Era 4. Conflict Resolution Through Collaboration and Consensus From Advocacy to Collaboration Collaboration and Consensus in Environmental Disputes Limits of Collaboration and Consensus Part III: Media Coverage of the Environment 5. Media and Environmental Journalism Media Depictions of Nature News Production and the Environment Media Effects The Rise of Alternative Environmental Media 6. Risk Communication: Nonexpert Publics and Acceptable Risk Dangerous Environments: Assessing Risk Risk Communication and Nonexpert Publics Media Reporting of Risk Part IV: Voices for Change 7. Environmental Advocacy Campaigns Environmental Advocacy Environmental Advocacy Campaigns The Campaign to Protect Zuni Salt Lake Dilemmas of Environmental Advocacy 8. Environmental Justice: Voices From the Grassroots Whose Environment? Whose Voice? Building the Movement for Environmental Justice Indecorous Voices and Democratic Inclusion Trying to Speak in Cancer Alley Part V: Environmental Discourses of Science and Industry 9. Science and Symbolic Legitimacy Science and Symbolic Legitimacy Boundaries The Precautionary Principle Industry, Science, and the Symbolic Legitimacy Conflict Advocacy and Environmental Science 10. Greem Marketing and Corporate Campaigns Free Market Discourse and the Environment Corporate Green Marketing Corporate Advocacy: Three Bites of the Apple Environmental Backlash: Corporate Responses to Environmental Critics Epilogue: Imagining a Different World

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR013223923

ISBN 13

9780761930495

ISBN 10

0761930493

Titel

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere Robert Cox

Autor

Robert Cox

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Verlag

SAGE Publications Inc

Datum

20060309

Anzahl der Seiten

488

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