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The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the
coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped
resource that can be used to mitigate planetary disaster and foster
environmental stewardship. Repeated waves of scientific fact and
information are not inciting action, nor apparently producing
enough momentum to change voting behaviour towards a progressive
environmental politics. A critical coastal policy, underpinned by a
deeper understanding of environmental communication, can offer
something new to this status quo. Environmental Communication and
Critical Coastal Policy argues that more science and 'better'
communication has been largely responsible for the lacklustre
response by citizens to environmental challenges. Foxwell-Norton
asserts that the inclusion of a range of local meanings and
cultural frameworks with which experts could engage would better
incite participation in, and awareness of, local environmental
issues. The value and possible role of 'geo-community media'
(mainstream, alternative and social media) is examined here to
illustrate and support the key argument that meaningful local
engagement is a powerful tool in coastal management processes. This
is a valuable resource for postgraduates, researchers and academics
across environmental science and management, policy studies,
communication studies and cultural studies.
Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media
Alternatives recognizes that climate change is more than an
environmental crisis. It is also a question of political and
communicative capacity. This book enquires into which approaches to
journalism, as a particularly important form of public
communication, can best enable humanity to productively address
climate crisis. The book combines selective overviews of previous
research, normative enquiry (what should journalism be doing?) and
original empirical case studies of environmental communication and
media coverage in Australia and Canada. Bringing together
perspectives from the fields of environmental communication and
journalism studies, the authors argue for forms of journalism that
can encourage public engagement and mobilization to challenge the
powerful interests vested in a high-carbon economy - 'facilitative'
and 'radical' roles particularly well-suited to alternative media
and alternative journalism. Ultimately, the book argues for a
fundamental rethinking of relationships between journalism,
publics, democracy and climate crisis. This book will interest
researchers, students and activists in environmental politics,
social movements and the media.
This volume interrogates the intertwining of the local and the
digital in environmental communication. It starts by introducing a
wave metaphor to tease out major shifts in the field, and situates
the intersections of local places and digital networks in the
beginning of a third wave. Investigations that feature the
centrality of place and digital communication platforms show how we
today, as researchers and practitioners, communicate the
environment. Contributions identify the need for critical
approaches that engage with the wider consequences of this changing
media landscape, unpacking local and global tensions in
environmental communication research. This empirical case study
collection from different parts of the world shows that
environmental activists and citizens creatively use digital
technologies for campaign purposes. It identifies new environmental
communication challenges and opportunities, as well as practices,
of environmental activists, NGOs, citizens and local communities,
in the fight for social and environmental justice.
The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the
coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped
resource that can be used to mitigate planetary disaster and foster
environmental stewardship. Repeated waves of scientific fact and
information are not inciting action, nor apparently producing
enough momentum to change voting behaviour towards a progressive
environmental politics. A critical coastal policy, underpinned by a
deeper understanding of environmental communication, can offer
something new to this status quo. Environmental Communication and
Critical Coastal Policy argues that more science and 'better'
communication has been largely responsible for the lacklustre
response by citizens to environmental challenges. Foxwell-Norton
asserts that the inclusion of a range of local meanings and
cultural frameworks with which experts could engage would better
incite participation in, and awareness of, local environmental
issues. The value and possible role of 'geo-community media'
(mainstream, alternative and social media) is examined here to
illustrate and support the key argument that meaningful local
engagement is a powerful tool in coastal management processes. This
is a valuable resource for postgraduates, researchers and academics
across environmental science and management, policy studies,
communication studies and cultural studies.
Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media
Alternatives recognizes that climate change is more than an
environmental crisis. It is also a question of political and
communicative capacity. This book enquires into which approaches to
journalism, as a particularly important form of public
communication, can best enable humanity to productively address
climate crisis. The book combines selective overviews of previous
research, normative enquiry (what should journalism be doing?) and
original empirical case studies of environmental communication and
media coverage in Australia and Canada. Bringing together
perspectives from the fields of environmental communication and
journalism studies, the authors argue for forms of journalism that
can encourage public engagement and mobilization to challenge the
powerful interests vested in a high-carbon economy - 'facilitative'
and 'radical' roles particularly well-suited to alternative media
and alternative journalism. Ultimately, the book argues for a
fundamental rethinking of relationships between journalism,
publics, democracy and climate crisis. This book will interest
researchers, students and activists in environmental politics,
social movements and the media.
This volume interrogates the intertwining of the local and the
digital in environmental communication. It starts by introducing a
wave metaphor to tease out major shifts in the field, and situates
the intersections of local places and digital networks in the
beginning of a third wave. Investigations that feature the
centrality of place and digital communication platforms show how we
today, as researchers and practitioners, communicate the
environment. Contributions identify the need for critical
approaches that engage with the wider consequences of this changing
media landscape, unpacking local and global tensions in
environmental communication research. This empirical case study
collection from different parts of the world shows that
environmental activists and citizens creatively use digital
technologies for campaign purposes. It identifies new environmental
communication challenges and opportunities, as well as practices,
of environmental activists, NGOs, citizens and local communities,
in the fight for social and environmental justice.
The latest special issue of Queensland Review reflects on
Queensland's Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests,
exploring the relationships between these at-risk ecosystems and
people and places both nearby and further afield. The issue
interweaves personal reflections with scholarly articles,
showcasing the broader humanity of environmental care and aiming to
dilute the arbitrary divisions between ourselves and nature.
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