Journal•ISSN: 1752-4032
Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture
Taylor & Francis
About: Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Environmental communication & Climate change. It has an ISSN identifier of 1752-4032. Over the lifetime, 780 publications have been published receiving 17454 citations.
Topics: Environmental communication, Climate change, Framing (social sciences), Politics, Global warming
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TL;DR: The New York Times has two typical and interesting examples from a Jonathan Safran Foer (20] as discussed by the authors, which are both from the early 1990s: the first is from a paper published in 1989 and the second is from the 1990s.
Abstract: Environmental framing is everywhere in the news. I am writing this on October 11, 2009. Today's New York Times has two typical and interesting examples. The first is from a Jonathan Safran Foer (20...
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TL;DR: The authors examines the claims of environmental identity campaigns regarding the issue of climate change and argues that while this approach may offer short term advantages, it is most likely incapable of developing the large scale mobilization necessary to enact the massive social and economic changes necessary to address global warming.
Abstract: This essay examines the claims of environmental identity campaigns regarding the issue of climate change. Identity campaigns are based on the idea that more effective environmental messages developed through the application of cognitive science by professional communications experts can favorably influence public opinion, and thus support legislative action to remedy this issue. Based on a review of the sociological and psychological literature regarding social change and mobilization, I argue that while this approach may offer short term advantages, it is most likely incapable of developing the large scale mobilization necessary to enact the massive social and economic changes necessary to address global warming. Specifically, theoretical and empirical research on the role of the public sphere, civil society and social movements shows that democratic civic engagement is core to successful social change efforts. However, identity campaigns focus on a communications process that centers on elite led one wa...
263 citations
TL;DR: As the number of environmental communication courses expands, it is important to consider the available pedagogical literature as discussed by the authors, which includes environmental communication in the public sphere (ECP) courses.
Abstract: As the number of environmental communication (EC) courses expands, it is important to consider the available pedagogical literature. Robert Cox’s Environmental Communication in the Public Sphere (2...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a heuristic conservation between the emerging field of environmental communication and the crisis discipline of conservation biology in order to generate a set of ethical postulates for research, teaching, and professional consultation.
Abstract: This essay proposes a heuristic conservation between the emerging field of environmental communication and the “crisis discipline” of conservation biology in order to generate a set of ethical postulates for research, teaching, and professional consultation. To the extent that social/symbolic representations of “environment” embody interested orientations, such discourses potentially constrain and/or enable societal responses to environmental signals, including signs of ecological crises. The essay argues that, implicit in this and other functional premises, lies a principal ethical duty of environmental communication: the obligation to enhance the ability of society to respond appropriately to environmental signals relevant to the well-being of both human communities and natural biological systems.
212 citations
TL;DR: This paper provided a systematic, large-scale, and up-to-date overview of the objects and characteristics of this research field through a meta-analysis, identifying 133 relevant studies and analyzes them empirically.
Abstract: A flurry of studies in recent years has analyzed the role of media in climate change communication. This article provides a systematic, large-scale, and up-to-date overview of the objects and characteristics of this research field through a meta-analysis. It identifies 133 relevant studies and analyzes them empirically. The results show that research activity has risen strongly over time, and that the analytical spectrum has expanded to include an increasing number of countries, more types of media including online and social media, and different methodological approaches. The analysis also demonstrates, however, that scholarship in the field still concentrates strongly on Western countries and print media.
200 citations