ABSTRACT

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of communication around rising global environmental challenges and public action to manage them now and into the future.

Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories, and areas of research. Chapters feature authors from a wide range of countries to critically review the genesis and evolution of environmental communication research and thus analyze current issues in the field from a truly international perspective, incorporating diverse epistemological perspectives, exciting new methodologies, and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks. The handbook seeks to challenge existing dominant perspectives of environmental communication from and about populations in the Global South and disenfranchised populations in the Global North.

The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication is ideal for scholars and advanced students of communication, sustainability, strategic communication, media, environmental studies, and politics.

part I|13 pages

What Is Environmental Communication? Introduction and Structure of the Field

part II|97 pages

Classical Approaches to Environmental Communication Research

chapter 2|14 pages

Covering the Environment Beat

A Systematic Review of Research on News Media Coverage of the Environment

chapter 4|20 pages

The Internet of Natural Things

Environmental Communication Online and in Social Media

part III|77 pages

Thematic Chapters

chapter 7|17 pages

Communicating Power and Resistance in the Global Food System

Emerging Trends in Environmental Communication

chapter 8|23 pages

Plastic Communication Campaigns and Interventions

Foci, Theoretical Frameworks, Variables, and Methods

chapter 9|18 pages

Plastic and the Environment

Background, Implications, and Challenges

part IV|94 pages

Internationalizing Environmental Communication Research

chapter 11|13 pages

Environmentalism of the Poor

Global South Perspectives on Environmental Communication

chapter 13|12 pages

Prioritizing Development, Vying for Attention

Factors Influencing the Practice of Environmental Journalism in the Global South

chapter 14|16 pages

Challenging the Nation-State

Indigenous Nations in Science and Environmental Communication

part V|103 pages

Engagement with Environmental Affairs

part VI|46 pages

Environmental Communication as Education

part VII|64 pages

Emerging Areas in Environmental Communication Research

chapter 28|15 pages

Ecological Crisis as a Laughing Matter

Uses of Humor in Environmental Communication

chapter 29|20 pages

Hearing Nature

Approaching International Environmental Communication through Music and Sound