Breaking Boundaries analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making to enhance public acceptance, sustainability, and the impact of those decisions in local contexts. The current political climate has generated uncertainty among citizens, industry interests, scientists, and other stakeholders, but by applying concepts from various perspectives of environmental communication and deliberative democracy, this book offers a series of lessons learned for both public officials and concerned citizens. The contributors offer a broader understanding of how individuals and groups can get involved effectively in environmental decisions through traditional formats as well as alternative approaches ranging from leadership capacity building to social media activity to civic technology.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction: From Public Participation to Community Engagement—and Beyond
Kathleen P. Hunt, Susan Senecah, Gregg B. Walker, and
Stephen P. Depoe
Opening Reflections
1. Health, the Environment, and Sustainability: Emergent Communication Lessons Across Highly Diverse Public Participation Activities
Linda Silka, Bridie Mc Greavy, and
David D. Hart
Section I. Exploring Dimensions of Participation Within Policy Frameworks
2. Listening and Learning: Stakeholder Views of Participation and Communication in Forest Planning
Gregg B. Walker, Steve Daniels, Sharon Timko, Carmine Lockwood, and
Susan Hansen
3. Rethinking Public Participation: The Case of Public Land Management in the American West
Matthew Mc Kinney
4. Speaking of Place: Analysis of Place-Based Discourse in Participatory Decision Making
Colene J. Lind
5. Cultural Discourses of Public Participation: Insights for Democratic Design and Energy System Transformation
Lydia Reinig and
Leah Sprain
6. The Radical Potential of Public Participation Processes: Using Indecorous Voice and Resistance to Expand the Scope of Public Participation
Kathleen P. Hunt, Nicholas S. Paliewicz, and
Danielle Endres
Section II. Expanding Pathways of Community Engagement
7. Advancing Practical Theory in Environmental Communication: A Phronetic Analysis of Environmental Participation and Dialogue in New Zealand
Giles Dodson and
Anna Palliser
8. Toward Communicative Space: A Maritime Agora of Backrooms and Thoroughfares
Chui-Ling Tam
9. Rare’s Conservation Campaigns: Community Decision Making and Public Participation in Global Contexts
Sarah D. Upton, Carlos A. Tarin, Stacey K. Sowards, and
Kenneth C. C. Yang
10. Fracking, the Elsipogtog First Nation, and Disruptive Public Participation: The Role of Images in Amplifying Outrage on Twitter
Molly Simis-Wilkinson and
Jill E. Hopke
Section III. Enacting Horizons of Civic Technology
11. Sustainable Stories: Integrated Transmedia as an Ecology of Storymaking
Tyler Quiring
12. Eco-Apps and Environmental Public Participation
Eli Typhina
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Kathleen P. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Communication at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Gregg B. Walker is Professor of Communication at Oregon State University. He is the coauthor of
Working through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach (with Stephen E. Daniels) and
The Military-Industrial Complex: Eisenhower’s Warning Three Decades Later (with Steven J. Sprecher and David A. Bella).
Stephen P. Depoe is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. He is the coeditor of several books, including
Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making (with John W. Delicath and Marie-France Aepli Elsenbeer), also published by SUNY Press.
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