The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication

Anders Hansen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication, at the University of Leicester, UK. He has published extensively on media and the environment. He is founder and ex-Chair of the IAMCR Environment, Science and Risk Communication Group, founding member and Secretary to the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), and is an Associate Editor for Environmental Communication. Robert Cox is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His principal research areas are environmental communication, climate change communication and strategic studies of social movements. He is author of Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere and serves on the editorial board of the journal Environmental Communication; he also advises US environmental groups on their communication programmes.

Introduction: environment and communication Part I Environment, communication and environmental communication: emergence and development of a field 1 Emergence and growth of the "field" of environmental communication 2 Communication, media and the social construction of the environment 3 Discourse/rhetorical analysis approaches to environment, media, and communication 4 Social science approaches to environment, media, and communication Part II Producing environmental communication: sources, communicators, media and media professionals Sources/communicators 5 Environmental scientists and public communication 6 The media/communication strategies of environmental pressure groups and NGOs 7 Resisting meaningful action on climate change: think tanks, ‘merchants of doubt’ and the ‘corporate capture’ of sustainable development 8 Transnational protests, publics and media participation (in an environmental age) 9 Public participation in environmental policy decision making: insights from twenty years of collaborative learning fieldwork 10 To act in concert: environmental communication from a social movement lens Media and media professionals 11 The changing face of environmental journalism in the United States 12 Environmental reporters 13 The changing ecology of news and news organizations: implications for environmental news 14 News organisation(s) and the production of environmental news 15 Citizen science, citizen journalism: new forms of environmental reporting 16 Environmental news journalism, public relations and news sources Part III Covering the environment: news media, entertainment media and cultural representations of the environment News media 17 News coverage of the environment: a longitudinal perspective 18 Communicating in the Anthropocene: the cultural politics of climate change news coverage around the world 19 Containment and reach: the changing ecology of environmental communication Entertainment media and cultural representations 20 Representations of the environment on television, and their effects 21 Cartoons and the environment 22 Cinema, ecology and environment 23 Nature, environment and commercial advertising 24 Celebrity culture and environment 25 Cultural representations of the environment beyond mainstream media Part IV Social and political implications of environmental communication 26 Mapping media’s role in environmental thought and action 27 Agenda-setting with environmental issues 28 Framing, the media, and environmental communication 29 Analysing public perceptions, understanding and images of environmental change 30 Publics, communication campaigns, and persuasive communication 31 Engaging diverse audiences with climate change: message strategies for Global Warming’s Six Americas Part V Conclusions: future trajectories of environment and communication 32 Beyond the post-political zeitgeist 33 Whither the heart(-to-heart)? Prospects for a humanistic turn in environmental communication as the world changes darkly