[Commlist] New Book: Environmental Communication handbook

New handbook by De Gruyter Mouton:

**Environmental Communication**

Edited by Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson

572 pages

Ebook published December 30, 2024

Hardcover will be published on February 17,2025

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110789553/html?srsltid=AfmBOoqPRVbtBtVUSPK7isBwJy_zWM7MlsUJ2t6skqZgGzR7dtJBHrpm 


This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of 
key topics and issues in the field, enriched by authoritative analyses 
of specific cases and examples. It displays pluralism across a number of 
axes: epistemological, theoretical, geographical, cultural, and thematic.

The first part offers historical routes through the international 
development of the field and explores the epistemological grounds of 
multiple strands of environmental communication studies.

In aiming to map the field broadly, as well as stimulating new thinking, 
the second part is organized along three core perspectives: /arenas/, 
/voice/, and /place/. It comprises chapters on various public spaces 
that are critical to the symbolic constitution of the environment, and 
sheds light on a range of aspects and social agents that have received 
insufficient attention, including research about – and carried out in – 
non-Western countries.

Crucially, at a time of profound environmental crisis, the final part of 
this book discusses possibilities and constraints to social change, and 
the potential contributions of environmental communication research to 
ways of understanding and responding to the challenge.

*Table of contents*

*INTRODUCTION*

*Chapter 1*

Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson

Rethinking environmental communication scholarship

**

*PART I – RESEARCH FIELD*

*A.**Development and challenges of Environmental Communication***

*Chapter 2*

Gregg B. Walker, Miriah M. Russo Kelly and Yanni Ma

Environmental communication as a field for investigation and action

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*Chapter 3 ***

Alison Anderson

Advancing the environmental communication field:  A research agenda

**

*B.**Epistemologies and research paradigms*

*Chapter 4***

Danielle Endres, Jessie Chaplain and Nicolas Hernandez

Rhetorical approaches to environmental communication

*Chapter 5***

Dara Wald

Exploring the potential for quantitative environmental communication to 
support social change

*Chapter 6***

José Castro-Sotomayor and Melissa Parks

Ethnographic iterations and seeds of possibilities in environmental 
communication research

*Chapter 7*

Christian Alarcón-Ferrari

Environmental communication as epistemological struggle: Knowledge, 
ideology, and political ecology

*Chapter 8***

Pieter Maeseele

Post-foundationalism and post-politics in critical environmental 
communication scholarship

**

*PART II – PERSPECTIVES *

**

*A.**Arenas *

*Chapter 9***

Jill E. Hopke

Tweeting on a rapidly warming planet: Environmental communication social 
media research

*Chapter 10***

Ines Lörcher, Stefanie Walter and Michael Brüggemann

Negotiating the norms of science communication: Blogs by climate 
scientists and journalists

*Chapter 11***

Dominic Ayegba Okoliko and Martin Petrus de Wit

Analysing climate change communication in African countries: Scales, 
frames, and claims-makers in media from South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya

*Chapter 12***

Eloisa Beling Loose

Climate change coverage under the lens of alternativeness

**

*B.**Voice *

*Chapter 13***

Shane Gunster, Robert Neubauer and Ryland Shaw

Sourcing matters: Voices in progressive alternative media

*Chapter 14***

Stacey Sowards

Voice and environmental communication: Indonesian women’s conservation 
advocacy

*Chapter 15***

Carla Malafaia and Maria Fernandes-Jesus

Communication in youth climate activism: addressing research pitfalls 
and centring young people’s voices

**

*Chapter 16*

Tema Milstein, Joanne Marras Tate, Gretchen Miller, Mariko Oyama Thomas 
and Deniz Yildiz

The more-than-human world in environmental communication: Attunement for 
transformation

**

*C.**Place*

*Chapter 17***

Damon Hall

The authority of place

**

*Chapter 18***

Paulami Banerjee

Re(integrating) the public in “public” participation processes in East 
Sikkim, India

*Chapter 19***

Bárbara Cosenza and Anabela Carvalho

Representing Amazonia: Perspectives from the Global North and the Global 
South

**

*PART III – FUTURES*

**

*A.**Social change: constraints and possibilities*

**

*Chapter 20***

Victoria Wibeck

A communication perspective on societal transformations towards 
sustainability

*Chapter 21***

Andrea Feldpausch-Parker, Kayla Smith, Anke van Kempen and Karin Limburg

When resiliencies collide: How Luhmann’s theory of social systems can be 
utilized to think through climate resiliency planning

*Chapter 22***

Cathrine Schrøder Dethlefsen and Hans Peter Hansen

On wolves and commons: Steps towards local deliberation and social 
learning in wildlife management

*Chapter 23***

Mónica Truninger

Environmental communication, social practices, and food system 
transformation

*Chapter 24***

Matthew Burke

Low-tech energy for essential, accessible, ecological transitions

*B.**Open questions*

*Chapter 25*

Hanna Bergeå and Lars Hallgren

Investigating the untapped potential of disagreements

*Chapter 26***

Ashleigh M. Day and Madrone Kalil Schutten

Embracing grief in a climate-changed world: Learning to cope with loss 
and companioning with Earth

*Chapter 27***

Ulrika Olausson

Deep sustainability and the tyranny of duality

**

*CONCLUSION*

**

*Chapter 28*

Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson

Reclaiming openness in ways of knowing

Contact:

Anabela Carvalho: (carvalho /at/ ics.uminho.pt) <mailto:(carvalho /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>

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