ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provide ideas about how environmental communication may enable social transformation toward greater sustainability, recognizing that such transformation always entails both constructivity and deconstructivity. It offers diverse contributions to rethinking community and the role of communication practices in promoting or hindering different forms of political engagement. The book examines the India's Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme was intended to change the practice of forest conservation from simply another post-colonial endeavour to alienate residents from their places and from each other by obliterating their informal, but longstanding and deep place relationships. Hansen and Peterson turned to a programme celebrated throughout the European Union (EU), the Swedish Dialogue for Nature Conservation (DNC), for an institutional approach to the construction of more inclusive community relations. The book explores communities that took nontraditional routes to public participation.
