Phaedra C. Pezzullo & Robert Cox 
Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere [PDF ebook] 

The best-selling
Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. Authors Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Robert Cox examine how we define what constitutes an environmental problem and how we decide what actions to take concerning the natural world. The
Sixth Edition explores recent events and research, including fast fashion, global youth climate strikes, biodiversity loss, disability rights advocacy, single-use plastic ban controversies, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Preface to the Sixth Edition

Introduction: Speaking for/About the Environment

About the Authors

Part I: Communicating for/About the Environment

Chapter 1: Defining Environmental Communication

Studying Environmental Communication

Communication, the Environment, and the Public Sphere

Diverse Environmental Voices in the Public Sphere

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 2: Contested Meanings: A Brief History

Turtle Island

Learning to Love Nature

Wilderness Preservation Versus Natural Resource Conservation

Public Health and the Ecology Movement

Environmental Justice: Linking Social Justice and Public Health

Contemporary Movements for Sustainability and Climate Justice

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 3: Symbolic Constructions of the Environment

A Rhetorical Perspective

Dominant and Critical Discourses

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 4: Environmental Media and Sustainability

The Environment and Popular Culture

Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Sustainability Discourses

Corporate Sustainability Communication: Reflection or Deflection?

Greenwashing

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Part II: Environmental Campaigns and Movements

Chapter 5: Environmental Advocacy Campaigns

Environmental Advocacy

Environmental Advocacy Campaigns

The Campaign to Protect Zuni Salt Lake

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 6: Digital Environmental Organizing

Grassroots Activism and Digital Media

Environmental NGOs and Digital Campaign Dilemmas

Multimodality and Networked Campaigns

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 7: Visual and Market Advocacy

Visual Rhetoric and Nature Advocacy

Moving Images of Disasters

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 8: Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Movements

Environmental Justice: Challenges, Critiques, and Change

Honoring Frontline Knowledge and Traveling on Toxic Tours

The Global Movement for Climate Justice

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Part III: Environmental Discourses and Public Spheres

Chapter 9: Environmental Journalism

Environmental Journalism in the Public Sphere

Breaking News and Environmental Journalism

Media Effects and Influences

Digital Storytelling and Environmental News

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 10: Science and Climate Communication

Scientific Argumentation

Early Warners: Environmental Scientists and the Public

Resisting (Climate) Science

Communicating Climate Science

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 11: Public Health and Environmental Risk Communication

Dangerous Environments: Assessment in a Risk Society

Communicating Environmental Risks in the Public Sphere

The Precautionary Principle

Citizens Becoming Scientists

Voices of Environmental Risk

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Part IV: Green Governance and Legal Spheres

Chapter 12: Public Participation and Democratic Rights

Rights of Public Participation

Right to Know: Transparency and Access to Information

Right to Comment: Involvement

SLAPP: Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation

Growth of Public Participation Internationally

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 13: Voice and Public Dissent

Right of Expression and Right of Assembly

Right of Standing: Who Legally Can Speak?

Landmark Cases on Environmental Standing

Reversing, Slowing, or Reducing Global Warming as Injury

Who Should Have a Right of Standing?

Summary

Suggested Resources

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Epilogue: Imagining Stories of/for Our Future

Glossary

References

Index

Об авторе

Robert Cox is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His principal research areas are environmental and climate change communication and strategic studies of social movements. A internationally-recognized leading scholar who helped found the field of environmental communication, Cox is coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (2015; second edition forthcoming), editor of the four-volume reference series Environmental Communication (Sage, 2016), and the author of numerous studies of environmental and climate change campaigns. He has served three times (1994-1996; 2000-2001; 2007-2008) as president of the Sierra Club, the largest grassroots U.S. environmental organization, and was also on the board of directors for Earth Echo International, whose mission is “to empower youth to take action that restores and protects our water planet.” Cox also continues to advise environmental groups on their communication programs. He regularly participates in environmental and climate change initiatives and has campaigned with former vice president Al Gore, singer Melissa Etheridge, and other public figures. He also enjoys hiking and trekking in the Himalayas, Europe, and the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States.