Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks – from the BSE or ‚mad cow‘ crisis to global climate change – are becoming more and more controversial.Examining large-scale disasters, as well as ‚everyday‘ hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. How do the media frame ‚expert‘, ‚counter-expert‘ and ‚lay public‘ definitions of environmental risk? What role do environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace or ‚eco-warriors‘ and ‚green guerrillas‘ play in shaping what gets covered and how? Does the media emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting exacerbate the public tendency to overestimate sudden and violent risks and underestimate chronic long-term ones?
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