Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media offers a range of progressive and thought-provoking investigations and overviews of contemporary topics in environmental communication and media. Providing cutting edge original research and analysis, the series covers key issues from climate change to natural resources, examining film, advertising, marketing, journalism, storytelling and new media forms.
This international and academically rigorous book series offers vital insights to all those engaged with the process of creating and interpreting media messages about environmental topics, whether they be students, scholars, policy makers or practitioners. These interdisciplinary books provide an invaluable resource for discussion in advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in environmental communication and media studies, as well as in cultural studies, marketing, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and politics.
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Environmental Literacy and New Digital Audiences
1st Edition
By Pat Brereton
September 30, 2020
Environmental literacy and education is not simply a top-down process of disseminating correct attitudes, values and beliefs. Rather, it is one that incorporates and facilitates a dialogue with audiences of different persuasions and at all levels of engagement, to help highlight and co-produce ...
Participatory Networks and the Environment: The BGreen Project in the US and Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Fadia Hasan
June 30, 2020
Seeking innovative answers to global sustainability challenges has become an urgent need with the onslaught of environmental and ecological degradation that surrounds us today. More than ever, there is a need to carve new ways for citizens and different industries and institutions to unite – to ...
Environmental Management of the Media: Policy, Industry, Practice
1st Edition
By Pietari Kääpä
March 04, 2020
In recent years the widely held misconception of the media as an ‘ephemeral’ industry has been challenged by research on the industry’s significant material footprint. Despite this material turn, no systematic study of this sector has been conducted in ways that considers the role of the media ...
The Discourses of Environmental Collapse: Imagining the End
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison E. Vogelaar, Brack W. Hale, Alexandra Peat
March 04, 2020
In recent years, ‘environmental collapse’ has become an important way of framing and imagining environmental change and destruction, referencing issues such as climate change, species extinction and deteriorating ecosystems. Given its pervasiveness across disciplines and spheres, this edited volume...
Environmental Communication and Critical Coastal Policy: Communities, Culture and Nature
1st Edition
By Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
June 06, 2019
The vast majority of the world’s population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that can be used to mitigate planetary disaster and foster environmental stewardship. Repeated waves of scientific fact and information are not inciting ...
Environmental Pollution and the Media: Political Discourses of Risk and Responsibility in Australia, China and Japan
1st Edition
By Glenn D. Hook, Libby Lester, Meng Ji, Kingsley Edney, Chris G. Pope, Luli van der Does-Ishikawa
June 04, 2019
This book offers a theoretically informed empirical investigation of national media reporting and political discourse on environmental issues in Australia, China and Japan. It illuminates the risks, harms and responsibilities associated with climate change through an analysis of pollution, adopting...
Journalism, Politics, and the Dakota Access Pipeline: Standing Rock and the Framing of Injustice
1st Edition
By Ellen Moore
January 02, 2019
This book explores tensions surrounding news media coverage of Indigenous environmental justice issues, identifying them as a fruitful lens through which to examine the political economy of journalism, American history, human rights, and contemporary U.S. politics. The book begins by evaluating ...
Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi, Eric L Morgan
September 27, 2018
Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is concerned with ways to help learners effectively navigate and consciously contribute to the communication shaping our environmental present...
Environmental Crises in Central Asia: From steppes to seas, from deserts to glaciers
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Freedman, Mark Neuzil
April 25, 2018
Environmental conditions do not exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by science, politics, history, public policy, culture, economics, public attitudes, and competing priorities, as well as past human decisions. In the case of Central Asia, such Soviet-era decisions include irrigation systems and...
Environmental Advertising in China and the USA: The desire to go green
1st Edition
By Xinghua Li
January 08, 2018
Since the late 1980s, green consumerism has been hailed in the West as an efficient solution to environmental problems. However, Chinese consumers have been slow to warm up to eco-friendly products. Consumers prefer SUVs to hybrid cars, health supplements and snake oil medicines to organic foods ...
Environmental Communication and Community: Constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Tarla Peterson, Hanna Bergeå, Andrea Feldpausch-Parker, Kaisa Raitio
December 21, 2017
As society has become increasingly aware of environmental issues, the challenge of structuring public participation opportunities that strengthen democracy, while promoting more sustainable communities has become crucial for many natural resource agencies, industries, interest groups and publics. ...
Climate Change and Post-Political Communication: Media, Emotion and Environmental Advocacy
1st Edition
By Philip Hammond
November 30, 2017
For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly successful. Yet just at ...