Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere - Cox, Robert

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Résumé :
About the Authors
Acknowledgments to the Seventh Edition
Introduction
Part I ? Communicating As, For, About, And with The Environment
Chapter 1 ? Defining Environmental Communication: On Trees, Wolves, and Plastics
Communication as Symbolic Action: Communicating with and about Trees
Communication Matters: Reintroducing Wolves
A Crisis and Care Discipline
Public Spheres as Democratic Spaces: From Ideals to Scapegoats
Purpose: What Motivates Environmental Communication in the Public Sphere?
Diverse Voices in The Public Sphere: Agents of Change
Ways of Studying Environmental Communication
Summary
Suggested Resources
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 2 ? Cultural and Rhetorical Environmental Discourses: From Apples to Zendaya
Rhetorical Perspectives: On Apples
Naming: From There's a whale! to Advocating Beans for Beef
Framing: On Plant-Rich Diets, Artificial Turf, and Farmer Backlash
The Rhetorical Situation: Getting Our Feet Wet
Apocalyptic Rhetoric and Melodrama: Silent Spring or Chicken Littles?
Dominant v. Critical Discourses: Revisiting Water and Food
Myth
Eco-Celebrities: Cool or Cruel?
Summary
Suggested Resources
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 3 ? Contested Meanings of the Environment: A Brief History
Turtle Island
Learning to Love Nature
Wilderness Preservation versus Natural Resource Conservation
Public Health and the Environmental Movement
Environmental Justice: Linking Social Justice and Public Health
Contemporary Movements
Summary
Suggested Resources
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 4 ? Contested Discourses: Communicating Climate Change
Early Awareness of Climate Change and the Technical Sphere
Challenges to Communicating Care in the Climate Crisis
Public Communication about Climate Controversies
Early Climate Symbols: Tipping Points and Footprints
Who is Hit First and Worst?: The Cruel Irony of Climate Change
Climate Action Backlash: Uncertainty, Delay, and Disinformation
Talking about the Climate Crisis
Public Opinion Data: Backlash is a Minority-The Majority Care
Summary
Suggested Resources
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Part II ? Environmental Campaigns And Movements
Chapter 5 ? Environmental Justice Movement: From Disobedience to Reinvention
The Lifecycle of the Movement for Environmental Justice
The Lifecycle of the Movement for Environmental Justice
Reaffirming and Reinventing Movements for Environmental Justice
Flipping the Script: Talking about Environmental Privilege
Summary
Suggested Resources
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 6 ? Advocacy for Climate Justice: Moving from Cruel Irony to a Just Transition
Climate Injustice: A Global Pattern
Advocacy and the Dilemma of Social Change
Inside or Outside, Take One: Articulating A Just Transition
Inside or Outside, Take One: Disrupting Business as Usual
Summary
Suggested Resources
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 7 ? Visual Rhetoric & Market-based Advocacy: From Boycotts to Divestment
Visual Rhetoric and Nature Advocacy
Seeing the American West
Moving Images of Disasters
Witnessing Biodiversity Loss through Projection Mapping and Documentaries
Alert, Amplify, and Engage
Three Challenges for (Digital) Engagement
Market-based Advocacy
Divest and Reinvest Climate Campaigns
Summary
Suggested Resources
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 8 ? Environmental Advocacy Campaigns: From Resisting Toxic Pollution to Protecting Zuni Salt La...

Biographie:

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 Environmentalism (MIT Press, 2007). She was a founding editor of the journal Environmental Communication and serves on its editorial board. She has volunteered on the Sierra Club's national Environmental Justice Committee and Affinity Group Working Group, consulted with cities and counties on a just transition, and was a delegate at COP21 in Paris. Pezzullo is a founding co-director of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC) on her campus. She also enjoys outdoor recreation and cooking a plant-based diet.