Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication

General Introduction

Access to Nature and Love of Nature: Case Study Ecotourism and Star Wars in Ireland

Case Study of Film Franchise, Star Wars: Ecotourism in Ireland and Skellig Michael

Advertising and Nature: How Environmental Issues are Projected in Media and PR

Affluence vs. Sustainable Consumption in Addressing Climate Change

Agency and Childhood Innocence in Animation: Promoting Environmental Activism: Case Study of FernGully and Princess Mononoke

Agenda Setting and News Media Coverage of Environmental Issues

Anthropomorphism, Human Love and the Personification of Animals: Blackfish

Anti-nuclear Modes of Environmental Thinking: Case Study of Chernobyl

Case Study of the Chernobyl Syndrome and the Rise of a Risk Society

Avant Garde Stories: Popularising Environmental Themes and Issues: Deseret

Behaviour Change Communications (BCC) and Climate Change

Blue Humanities: Increasing Carbon and Waste Emissions

Carbon Lock-in and Dealing with Stranded Assets: Communicating the Challenges

Circular Economy: Environmental Media, Inclusive and Just Transition – Snowpiercer

Circular Economy Finance and Its Limitations

Citizen Media Engagement and Strategies Used for Effective Audience Reception Studies

Climate Literacy and Environmental Activism: Ozark

Climate Markets and Cap and Trade as Practical Environmental-Economic Solutions

Cognitive Dissonance and Eco-modernism

Communication/Media Models Used for Environmental Communication

Community Engagement/Environmental Citizenship: ‘Change by Degrees’

Conservation as an Environmental Strategy Towards Evaluating Wilderness: Yellowstone

Case study of Yellowstone

Consumption and the Diderot Effect: Sustainable Reduction, Reuse and Recycle

Coronavirus: Health and Effective Communication of Climate Change – Contagion

Case study of Contagion

Creative Imaginary Used to Explore Solutions to Climate Change – Documentary 2040

Critical Theory and Environmental Communications

Critique of Historical Western Consumer Capitalism – Case Study of A Christmas Carol (BBC 1, Christmas 2019), adapted by Steven Knight (creator of Peaky Blinders)

De-growth: Radical Solutions for Climate Change Stability

Democratic Deficit: From Techno-fix to Gaia – The War Narrative

Using the War Narrative to Help Address the So-called Democratic Deficit

Ecological Modernism and Sustainable Development: Our Common Future in Crisis

Eco-villages – Case Study of Cloughjordan: An Irish Transitional and Sustainable Project

Ecocriticism and the Growth of Environmental Communication

Eco-materialism: Case Study of the Real Environmental Cost of Media Production

Material Turn in Ecocriticism: Environmental Cost of Globalised Media Production

Education Versus Disinformation: Promoting Environmental Literacy

Employment Opportunities: Feeding into Environmental Communications HE Courses

Enclosure Movement and Tragedy of the Commons

Post-colonial Enclosures, Eco-land Management and Cheap Nature

Energy Humanities: From Fossil Fuels to the Carbon Economy

Energy Landscapes and Media Perceptions: Case Study of NIMBYism in Ireland

Environmental Media Risk Campaigns: Best Practice Protocols

Environmental Citizenship as a Model of Engaging Humans Around Climate Change

Environmental Justice: Case Study of India

Chipko Movement: A Case Study

Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Renewable Energy in Postcolonial Morocco

Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Uruguay (Victoria Gomez)

Environmental Justice – A Case Study of Representations of the Inuit Tribe in The Terror (Nora Doorley)

Environmental Management of the Media: Marrying Mindmapping and Carbon Footprinting

Fake News and Environment Communication – The Social Dilemma

A Case Study of the Power of Online Fake News: The Social Dilemma (2020)

Fast Fashion, the ‘Third World’ and the Circular Economy

Free Press Theory Versus Social Responsibility Model of Media: Case Study of ClimateGate

Case Study of Climategate

Green Transformation and Global Citizen Engagement – Green New Deal (Naomi Klein)

Naomi Klein's (American) Response to the Climate Crisis

Greening the Higher Education Curriculum: Drawing on the Power of Children's Media

Case Study of Children's TV and Environmental Media Education

Greening the Media: Drawing on Scholarship from New Environmental Media Journals

Greenwashing the Corporate and Media Industry: PR limitations and CSR

Greenwashing Lite: Celebrity Culture and Green Product Placement: Down to Earth

Historical Environmental Representations of Communal Living: Happy as Lazzaro

Hippie Counter-Culture, Active Environmental Agency and Eco-spirituality – Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace – A Contemporary Back-to-Nature Environmental Parable

Human Rights Violation and Climate Change: Who Should Pay!

Intersectionality and Eco-citizenship: Drawing on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity Debates

Jevon's Paradox, Energy Efficiency and Its Environmental Application: Case Study of F1

Just Transition and Energy: From Fossil Fuels to Renewables – Peat Workers in Ireland

Legal Representations of Environmental Agency: Case Studies of Dark Waters

Linguistic Discourse and Ecocriticism – Naming the Crisis!

Literary Tropes for Representing Low Carbon Futures

Mediatisation of Climate Change with a Focus on Environmental Concerns

Media Coverage of Climate Change Debate: Triggers for Promoting Environmental Literacy

Multi-level Perspective (MLP) Analysis of Climate Change

Museums and Curating Exhibitions as a Model for Representations of Climate Change

Native (Invader) Species: Representations and Effects on Bio-diversity

Natural Capital as a Business Response in Dealing with Climate Change

Nature Based Solutions – A Life on Our Planet

NIMBYism (Not in My Back Yard): Case Study of Renewable Energy (Windfarms)

Non-Conventional Environmental Activism: A Case Study of Woman at War

Organic Signifiers of Communicating with a Natural Ecosystem – Tree of Life

Overton Window and Making Radical Political Environmental Decisions

Pastoralism as a Model for Human's Love of Nature in Literature and Film

Peak Oil and ‘Keep it in the Ground’: Contested Environmental Debates

Petrofiction, Petrochemical Emissions: Reaching Dangerous Limits

Posthumanism and Ecological Thinking

Postmodernism and Climate Change Communication

Population Overshoot: Our Ecological Footprint and Loss of Biodiversity – Downsizing

Mapping Our Human Population History from an Ecological and Environmental Perspective

Case Study of Population Control Using the Science Fictional Tale – Downsizing

Queer Theorising and Nature: New Modes of Imagining Gender – Brokeback Mountain

Regenerative Soil and Overcoming Desertification: Case Study of Kiss the Ground

Religious Fanaticism and Romanticisation of Nature: Case Study of A Hidden Life

Renewable Energy Debates and Critiques: Case Study of Planet of the Humans

Critique of Renewable Energy: Case Study of Planet of the Humans (2020)

Capitalism, Consumption and Growth

Risk Society and Climate Change

Sensory Big Data and Art: Communicating through the Five Senses

Shock Doctrine and Pandemics: As a Precursor for the Climate Crisis

Sixth Extinction and Environmental Disasters

Slow Violence and Poverty: Lack of Equity in Representing Environmental Scholarship

Social Media and Climate Change Communication: A Tool for Innovation!

Spiritual Representations of Environmental Agency – First Reformed

Linking Environmental Action and Martyrdom – Calling on Religious and Racial Justice

Sustainable Communication and Environmental New Media Research

Sustainable Development Goal 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production

Sustainability Accounting (Dr Aideen O'Dochartaigh DCU)

Tipping Points Around Climate Change Transformation – Audience Research

Case Study – Tipping Point in Media Coverage of Climate Change: Audiences Analysis

Transdisciplinary Research (TDR) and Environmental Communication

Utopian Environmental Messaging: Lessons from Hollywood and Guides to Young People

Veganism and Promoting Environmental Values Through Celebrity Endorsement

Water Documentaries as Public Service Announcement (PSA) – Irish Water Conflict

Case Study – Water Public Service Announcement (PSA)

Weather Documentary Scholarship: Mediating Climate Change Effects and Public Opinion

Westerns Reflecting Deep Environmental Issues and Nature's Revenge – Wild River

Wind Energy: Storytelling, Renewable Energy and Community Adaptation

Case Study: Communicating a Renewable Energy Strategy for Low Carbon Transition (LCT)

World Bank (The) and Developing Effective Financial Environmental Communication

Overview: The Great Derangement

Realos vs Fundis: Green Growth vs De-growth

Environmental Communications and the Future