Academic writing on environmental communication proliferated in
the 1990's. A few of us had been calling for such work and making
initial investigations throughout the 1980's, but the momentum in
the field built slowly. Spurred by coverage in the mass media,
academic publishers finally caught the wave of interest. In this
exciting new volume, the editors demonstrate more fully than ever
before how environmental rhetoric and technical communication go
hand in hand. The key link that they and their distinguished group
of contributors have discovered is the ancient concern of
communication scholars with public deliberation. Environmental
issues present technical communicators with some of their greatest
challenges, above all, how to make the highly specialized and
inscrutably difficult technical information generated by
environmental scientists and engineers usable in public decision
making. The editors encourage us to accept the challenge of
contributing to environmentally conscious decision making by
integrating technical knowledge and human values. For technical
communicators who accept the challenge of working toward solutions
by opening access to crucial information and by engaging in
critical thinking on ecological issues, the research and theory
offered in this volume provide a strong foundation for future
practice.
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