The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of communication around rising global environmental challenges and public action to manage them now and into the future. Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories, and areas of research. Chapters feature authors from a wide range of countries to critically review the genesis and evolution of environmental communication research and thus analyze current issues in the field from a truly international perspective, incorporating diverse epistemological perspectives, exciting new methodologies, and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks. The handbook seeks to challenge existing dominant perspectives of environmental communication from and about populations in the Global South and disenfranchised populations in the Global North. The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication is ideal for scholars and advanced students of communication, sustainability, strategic communication, media, environmental studies, and politics.

What Is Environmental Communication? Introduction and Structure of the Field Expanding Conceptualizations of Environmental Communication Research Bruno Takahashi, Julia Metag, Jagadish Thaker, and Suzannah Evans Comfort Classical Approaches to Environmental Communication Research Covering the Environment Beat: A Systematic Review of Research on News Media Coverage of the EnvironmentBruno Takahashi, Ran Duan, Apoorva Joshi, Anthony Van Witsen, and Wenzhu Li Media Effects in the Context of Environmental IssuesKira Klinger and Julia Metag The Internet of Natural Things: Environmental Communication Online and in Social MediaMike S. Schäfer Rhetorical Approaches in Environmental CommunicationCasey R. Schmitt, Gabi Mocatta, and Joanne Marras Tate Comparing the Literature of Science, Risk, and Environmental Communication Nichole Bennett, Won-ki Moon, John Besley, and Anthony Dudo Thematic Chapters Communicating Power and Resistance in the Global Food System: Emerging Trends in Environmental CommunicationConstance Gordon and Kathleen P. Hunt Plastic Communication Campaigns and Interventions: Foci, Theoretical Frameworks, Variables, and MethodsRonald E. Rice and Cassandra M. Moxley Plastic and the Environment: Background, Implications, and ChallengesRonald E. Rice and Cassandra M. Moxley The International Coverage of Biodiversity LossJames Painter Internationalising Environmental Communication Research Environmentalism of the Poor: Global South Perspectives on Environmental CommunicationJagadish Thaker Rethinking Publics and Environmental Communication in Western and Eastern CulturesPhaedra C. Pezzullo and Jingfang Liu Prioritizing Development, Vying for Attention: Factors Influencing the Practice of Environmental Journalism in the Global SouthMira Rochyadi-Reetz and Dan Teng’o Challenging the Nation-State: Indigenous Nations in Science and Environmental CommunicationRyan Comfort Cultural Tailoring of Environmental Communication InterventionsMaria Knight Lapinski and John G. Oetzel Environmental Communication Research in the French-Speaking WorldAndrea Catellani, Céline Pascual Espuny, and Pudens Malibabo Lavu Engagement with Environmental Affairs Models of Attitudes, Intentions and Behaviors in Environmental CommunicationHelena Bilandzic and Anja Kalch The Role of Emotions in Environmental CommunicationJessica Gall Myrick and Jeff Conlin Environmental Communication and Policy Makers Birte Fähnrich and Alexander Ruser Participatory Environmental Communication: Toward Enhanced Collaboration and Dialogue in Caribbean and Pacific CommunitiesUsha S. Harris and Rowie Kirby-Straker Environmental Social Movements and Social MediaJill E. Hopke and Lauren Paris Social Media Influencers and Environmental CommunicationDesirée Schmuck Environmental Communication as Education Rewilding Environmental Communication through Transformative TeachingTema Milstein, John Carr, José Castro Sotomayor, and Mariko Oyama Thomas Revolutionaries Needed! Environmental Communication as a Transformative DisciplineFranzisca Weder and Tema Milstein Environmental Educommunication: EdTech’s Visual Media Trends for Environmental LearningFatima Viteri Emerging Areas in Environmental Communication Research Neuroimaging in Environmental Communication ResearchRalf Schma¨lzle, Shelby Wilcox, and Clare Grall Virtual and Augmented Reality in Environmental CommunicationPriska Breves and Esther Greussing Ecological Crisis as a Laughing Matter: Uses of Humor in Environmental CommunicationJari Lyytimäki Hearing Nature: Approaching InternationalEnvironmental Communicationthrough Music and SoundJoshua Groffman and Olusegun Stephen Titus

Bruno Takahashi is Associate Professor of Environmental Journalism and Communication at Michigan State University, USA, with a joint appointment in the School of Journalism and AgBioResearch. Julia Metag is Professor of Communication Science at the Department of Communication at the University of Muenster, Germany. Jagadish Thaker is a SeniorLecturer in the Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, AotearoaNew Zealand. Suzannah Evans Comfort is Assistant Professor in the Media School at Indiana University, USA.