Environmental Communication and Community

Tarla Rai Peterson is a professor in the Department of Communication and Coordinator of RARE Mozambique at the University of Texas, El Paso, USA. Hanna Ljunggren Bergeå is a researcher at the Division of Environmental Communication, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), USA. Kaisa Raitio is an associate professor at the Division of Environmental Communication, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

Part 1 Introduction and conceptual framing for community constructivity and deconstructivity 1. Introduction 2. Reframing Conflict in Natural Resource Management: Mutuality, Reciprocity, and Pluralistic Agonism as Dynamics of Community Constructivity and Destructivity Part 2 Constructing and deconstructing community 3. Process Literacy: Theory and practice for multi-cultural community-based deliberative democracy 4. Performances of an International Professional Community: CCS/CCUS and its National Contexts 5. How Reductive Scientific Narratives Limit Possibilities for Community Participation in Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study in Texas, USA 6. Community Conversations on Conservation: A Case Study of Joint Forest Management in East Sikkim, India 7. Wildlife Conservation as Public Good: The Public Trust Doctrine and the North American Model of Wildlife Management 8. Dialogue for Nature Conservation: Attempting to Construct an Inclusive Environmental Policy Community in Sweden 9. Deconstructing Public Space to Construct Community: Guerilla Gardening as Place-based Democracy 10. Emotions in Communicative Practice: Legitimation and De-legitimation in Environmental Conflicts in the Netherlands and Sweden 11. Community Construction through Culturally Rooted Celebration: Turtles all the Way Down 12. Seized and Missed Opportunities in Responding to Community Conflicts: Constructivity and Destructivity in Forest Conflict Management in Finland and British Columbia 13. Divergent meanings of participation: Ethnographies of communication in water governance in California and Colorado Part 3 Conclusion and summary 14. Conclusion