Most of what we understand about 'the environment', we know through
the media, broadly defined, and related communication processes.
Indeed, such processes have played a vital role in defining 'the
environment' as a crucial concept, and in bringing environmental
issues and problems to public and political attention. Thus, at
least since the emergence and rise of the modern environmental
movement in the 1960s, the mass media have been a central public
arena for publicizing environmental issues and for contesting
claims, arguments, and opinions about our use and abuse of the
environment. (Moreover, the learned editor of this new Routledge
collection avers, this applies not only to our beliefs and
knowledge about those aspects of the environment which are regarded
as problems or issues for public and political concern, but extends
much deeper to the very ways in which we-as individuals, cultures,
and societies-view, perceive, value, and relate to our environment
and nature generally.) A rapidly expanding body of research and
scholarship from a diverse range of disciplines across the
humanities, sciences, and social sciences has sought to address key
questions about all aspects of media, mediation, and communication
roles in social, political, and cultural definitions of 'the
environment'. Such questions have focused in particular on how the
media and related communication processes are centrally implicated
in the social and political definition, contestation, and
resolution of major global environmental issues and
problems-notably, most recently, climate change. But media and
communication roles in relation to local and national environmental
issues also continue to be an important focus for scholarly
research on what is increasingly recognized as the emerging and
consolidating domain of 'environmental communication'. Addressing
the need for an authoritative and comprehensive reference work to
enable users to navigate this increasingly complex area of research
and study, and to answer key questions about the central role of
media and communication in relation to the environment and
environmental issues, Media and the Environment is a new title from
Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in the Environment series.
Edited by Anders Hansen, it is a four-volume collection of
foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship. The
collection brings together core texts charting the history and
development of environmental communication, along with research
examining the three major strands of the communication process: the
sources and production of communication about the environment; the
study of representations of the environment in news, entertainment
media, advertising, film, and popular culture; and the study of how
communication about the environment impacts on and interacts with
public and political beliefs about the environment, as well as
political action regarding the environment. The collection's final
part provides a series of case studies from the field of
environmental communication praxis, examining how activists, NGOs,
local government, and large corporations have sought to use
communication as a key tool in the political processes of
environmental change. Supplemented with a full index, and including
an introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the
assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context, Media
and the Environment is destined to be valued by scholars and
students as a vital research resource.
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