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Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere

Sixth Edition


May 2021 | 392 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The best-selling Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. Authors Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Robert Cox examine how we define what constitutes an environmental problem and how we decide what actions to take concerning the natural world. The Sixth Edition explores recent events and research, including fast fashion, global youth climate strikes, biodiversity loss, disability rights advocacy, single-use plastic ban controversies, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Preface to the Sixth Edition
 
Introduction: Speaking for/About the Environment
 
About the Authors
 
Part I: Communicating for/About the Environment
 
Chapter 1: Defining Environmental Communication
Studying Environmental Communication

 
Communication, the Environment, and the Public Sphere

 
Diverse Environmental Voices in the Public Sphere

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 2: Contested Meanings: A Brief History
Turtle Island

 
Learning to Love Nature

 
Wilderness Preservation Versus Natural Resource Conservation

 
Public Health and the Ecology Movement

 
Environmental Justice: Linking Social Justice and Public Health

 
Contemporary Movements for Sustainability and Climate Justice

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 3: Symbolic Constructions of the Environment
A Rhetorical Perspective

 
Dominant and Critical Discourses

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 4: Environmental Media and Sustainability
The Environment and Popular Culture

 
Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach

 
Sustainability Discourses

 
Corporate Sustainability Communication: Reflection or Deflection?

 
Greenwashing

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Part II: Environmental Campaigns and Movements
 
Chapter 5: Environmental Advocacy Campaigns
Environmental Advocacy

 
Environmental Advocacy Campaigns

 
The Campaign to Protect Zuni Salt Lake

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 6: Digital Environmental Organizing
Grassroots Activism and Digital Media

 
Environmental NGOs and Digital Campaign Dilemmas

 
Multimodality and Networked Campaigns

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 7: Visual and Market Advocacy
Visual Rhetoric and Nature Advocacy

 
Moving Images of Disasters

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 8: Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Movements
Environmental Justice: Challenges, Critiques, and Change

 
Honoring Frontline Knowledge and Traveling on Toxic Tours

 
The Global Movement for Climate Justice

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Part III: Environmental Discourses and Public Spheres
 
Chapter 9: Environmental Journalism
Environmental Journalism in the Public Sphere

 
Breaking News and Environmental Journalism

 
Media Effects and Influences

 
Digital Storytelling and Environmental News

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 10: Science and Climate Communication
Scientific Argumentation

 
Early Warners: Environmental Scientists and the Public

 
Resisting (Climate) Science

 
Communicating Climate Science

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 11: Public Health and Environmental Risk Communication
Dangerous Environments: Assessment in a Risk Society

 
Communicating Environmental Risks in the Public Sphere

 
The Precautionary Principle

 
Citizens Becoming Scientists

 
Voices of Environmental Risk

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Part IV: Green Governance and Legal Spheres
 
Chapter 12: Public Participation and Democratic Rights
Rights of Public Participation

 
Right to Know: Transparency and Access to Information

 
Right to Comment: Involvement

 
SLAPP: Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation

 
Growth of Public Participation Internationally

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 13: Voice and Public Dissent
Right of Expression and Right of Assembly

 
Right of Standing: Who Legally Can Speak?

 
Landmark Cases on Environmental Standing

 
Reversing, Slowing, or Reducing Global Warming as Injury

 
Who Should Have a Right of Standing?

 
Summary

 
Suggested Resources

 
Key Terms

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Epilogue: Imagining Stories of/for Our Future
 
Glossary
 
References
 
Index

Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo

Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and a dual citizen with the US and Italia. Her interdisciplinary background informs her research on environmental justice, climate justice, just transition, public advocacy, and tourist studies. Her book, Toxic Tourism (University of Alabama Press, 2007), won four awards, including the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award and the National Communication Association’s Environmental Communication Division Book Award. Among other publications, she coedited Green Communication and China (Michigan State University Press, 2020) and Environmental Justice and... More About Author

J. "James" Robert Cox

Robert Cox is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His principal research areas are environmental and climate change communication and strategic studies of social movements. A internationally-recognized leading scholar who helped found the field of environmental communication, Cox is coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (2015; second edition forthcoming), editor of the four-volume reference series Environmental Communication (Sage, 2016), and the author of numerous studies of environmental and climate change campaigns. He has served three times (1994-1996; 2000-2001; 2007... More About Author

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