ABSTRACT

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 environmental communication ever more pertinent. This is reflected in this second edition, including a number of exciting new chapters concerned with: environmental communication in an age of misinformation and fake news; environmental communication, community and social transformation; environmental justice; and advances in methods for the analysis of mediated environmental communication.Signalling the key dimensions of public mediated communication, the Handbook is organised around five thematic parts:

  • the history and development of the field of environmental communication research,
  • the sources, communicators and media professionals involved in producing environmental communication,
  • research on news, entertainment media and wider cultural representations of the environment,
  • the social and political implications of environmental communication,
  • and the likely future trajectories for the field.

Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text is a must for scholars and students of environmental communication across multiple subject areas, including environmental studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.

part II|138 pages

Producing environmental communication

chapter 8|14 pages

Managing the climate apocalypse

Think tanks, policy planning groups, and the corporate capture of sustainable development

chapter 10|24 pages

Insights and opportunities in public participation practice

Applying collaborative learning in environmental policy decision situations

chapter 13|13 pages

Improving environmental reporting

Forging synergies with citizen science and citizen journalism

chapter 14|16 pages

Transformative journalisms

How the global ecological crisis is transforming journalism

part III|127 pages

Covering the environment

chapter 15|14 pages

Big data and computational methods

Methodological advances for analyzing mediated environmental communication

chapter 16|19 pages

Communicating climate change in the Anthropocene

The dynamic cultural politics of climate change news coverage and social media around the world

chapter 19|14 pages

Online climate denialism

Eco-systems and echo chambers

chapter 21|11 pages

Cartoons and the environment

chapter 22|14 pages

Cinema, ecology, and environment

part IV|73 pages

Social and political implications of environmental communication

part V|30 pages

Conclusions

chapter 31|14 pages

Speaking to the heart of the matter

The emergence of a humanistic environmental communication