ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the international state of the field of environmental communication pedagogy at a time when people claim rewilding communication is a poignant matter for Earth. Environmental communication education recognizes that communication both represents and fundamentally informs ecological catastrophe and renewal, and enables students to understand the ecological implications of individual and institutional discourses. Communication is less a discipline and more a disciplinary amalgamation. The emerging sub-field of critical physical geography, for example, seeks to enable a productive dialogue between geographic physical science – with its largely positivist ontology, natural science methodologies, and land-change process focus – and critical human geography, which largely engages poststructural ontologies, qualitative methodologies, and a focus on spaces of power and inequality. The multidisciplinary roots of environmental communication present both challenges and new opportunities for the classroom.
