Overview

This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental communications. Addressing this challenge, Essential Concepts for Environmental Communication synthesises summary writings from a broad range of environmental theorists, while teasing out provocative concepts and key ideas that frame this evolving, multi-disciplinary field. Each entry maps out an important concept or environmental idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across the growing field of environmental communication debates. Included in this volume is a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-COVID setting: • Offers cutting-edge analysis of the current state of environmental communications. • Presents an up-to-date exploration of environmental and sustainable development models at a local and global level. • Provides an in-depth exploration of key concepts across the ever-expanding environmental communications field. • Examines the interaction between environmental and media communications at all levels. • Provides a critical review of contemporary environmental communications literature and scholarship. With key bibliographical references and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

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Author:   Pat Brereton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9780367642013

ISBN 10:   0367642018
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   13 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgements General Appeal: Essential Concepts for Environmental Communications General Introduction A-Z entries Access to nature and love of nature: Case study Eco-tourism and Star Wars in Ireland Advertising and Nature: How Environmental Issues are Projected in Media and PR Affluence versus 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 Avant Garde stories: Popularising Environmental Themes and Issues – Deseret Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and Climate Change Blue Humanities: increasing Carbon and Waste Emissions Carbon lock-in: a strategy for 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 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 Consumption and the Diderot Effect: Sustainable Reduction, Reuse and Recycle Coronavirus: Health and Effective Environmental Communication – Contagion Creative Imaginary used to explore Solutions to Climate Change - 2040 Critical Theory and Environmental Communication Critique of Historical Western Consumer Society – case study of A Christmas Carol De-growth: Radical Solutions for Climate Change Stability Democratic Deficit: From Techno-fix to Gaia - the War Narrative Ecological Modernism and Sustainable Development: Our Common Future 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 Education versus Disinformation: Promoting Environmental Literacy Effects Theory and Environmental Behavioural Change Employment opportunities: Feeding into Environmental Communications HE Courses. Enclosure Movement and Tragedy of the Commons Energy Humanities: From Fossil Fuels to the Carbon Economy Energy Landscapes and Media Perceptions: Case study of Ireland Environmental Media Risk Campaigns: Best Practice Protocols Environmental Citizenship as a model of engaging Humans around Climate Change Environmental Management of the Media: Marrying Mindmapping and Carbon Footprinting Environmental Justice: Case study India Environmental Justice: Case study of Representations of Inuit in The Terror (Nora Doorley) Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Renewable Energy in Postcolonial Morocco Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Uruguay (Victoria Gomez) Fake News, Post Truth and Environment Communication – The Social Dilemma Fast Fashion, The Third World and the Circular Economy Free Press theory versus Social Responsibility Model of Media: Case Study Climategate Green Transformation and Global Citizen Engagement - Green New Deal (Naomi Klein) Greening the Higher Education Curriculum: Drawing on the power of Children’s Media Greening the Media: Drawing on Scholarship in using 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 Lazarro Hippie Counter Culture, Active Environmental Agency and Eco-Spirituality: Leave No Trace 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 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 Mediatization 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 NIMBY’ism (Not in my back yard): Case Study of Renewable Energy Non-Conventional Environmental Activism: a case study of Women at War Organic signifiers of communication with a national eco-system – Tree of Life Overton window and Making Radical Political Environmental Decisions Pastoralism as model of 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 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 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 Sustainable Communication and Environmental New Media research Sustainability Accounting – (Aideen O'Dochartaigh, DCU Business School) Tipping point around climate change transformation – Audience Research 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 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 World Bank (The) and Developing Effective Financial Environmental Communication *Final Essay: The Future of Environmental Communications – Overcoming Anxiety [A-Z Audio Visual Case Studies]

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"""In the ever-expanding field of environmental humanities, Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A-Z Guide is a commendable collection that constitutes instances of a wide range of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature. In the background of the post-COVID challenges of sustainability, this collection addresses climate change through the lens of media and communications. This book highlights challenging notions and ideas that will continue to define this developing multidisciplinary topic even as it aims to compile writings and reflections from a wide spectrum of studies in the connected fields."" - Green Letters, Dipayan Dutta, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University"

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Pat Brereton is a Professor in the School of Communications and is Co-Director of the Climate and Society Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland.

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