Environmental Communication

Robert Cox (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) 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. One of the nation's leading scholars in environmental communication, Cox is coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (2015), as well as authoring numerous studies of environmental and climate change campaigns. He has served three times as President of the Sierra Club, the largest grassroots U.S. environmental organization, and is 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 continues to advise environmental groups on their communication programs, and serves as an advisory editor for the journal, Environmental Communication. Cox 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 and the southern Appalachian Mountains in the U.S.

VOLUME ONE: ORIGINS, APPROACHES, AND PRINCIPLES Part One: Theoretical and Conceptual Influences Ideas of Nature - Raymond Williams The Production and Consumption of Environmental Meanings in the Mass Media: A Research Agenda for the 1990s - Jacquelin Burgess Nature and Norm - Neil Evernden The Theoretical Construction of Nature: A Critique of Naturalistic Theories of Evolution - Klaus Eder Part Two: Rhetorical-Discursive Analyses Rhetorical Studies John Muir, Yosemite, and the Sublime Response: A Study in the Rhetoric of Preservationism - Christine Oravec Accidental Rhetoric: The Root Metaphors of Three Mile Island - Thomas Farrell and G. Thomas Goodnight Rhetoric, Environmentalism, and Environmental Ethics - Michael Bruner and Max Oelschlaeger Discourse Analyses Making Sense of Earth's Politics: A Discourse Approach - John Dryzek Cultural Circuits of Climate Change in UK Broadsheet Newspapers - Anabela Carvalho and Jacquelin Burgess Part Three: Social-Cultural Constructions Constructing a Social Problem: The Press and the Environment - A. Clay Schoenfeld, Robert Meier and Robert Griffin The Media and the Social Construction of the Environment - Anders Hansen Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality - William Gamson, David Croteau, William Hoynes and Theodore Sasson Rethinking Nature and Society - Phil Macnaghten and John Urry Part Four: Visual Constructions of Environment The Tourist Gaze and the 'Environment' - John Urry Visually Branding the Environment: Climate Change as a Marketing Opportunity - Anders Hansen and David Machin Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication - Julie Doyle Part Five: Environment Communication as a Field Communication, Media and Environment: Towards Reconnecting Research on the Production, Content and Social Implications of Environmental Communication - Anders Hansen Nature's 'Crisis Disciplines': Does Environmental Communication Have an Ethical Duty? - Robert Cox VOLUME TWO: MEDIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM Part One: News Coverage of the Environment Up and Down with Ecology - The 'Issue-Attention Cycle' - Anthony Downs Media Coverage and Public Opinion on Scientific Controversies - Allan Mazur Part Two: Media Framing and the Environment Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm - Robert Entman Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach - William Gamson and Andre Modigliani Communicating Climate Change: Why Frames Matter for Public Engagement - Matthew Nisbet Part Three: Environmental Media Effects Agenda-Setting The Agenda-setting Function of Mass Media - Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw Media Agenda-setting with Environmental Issues - Tony Atwater, Michael Salwen and Ronald Anderson The Media Coverage and Public Awareness of Environmental Issues in Japan - Shunji Mikami, Toshio Takeshita, Makoto Nakada and Miki Kawabata A Longitudinal Study of Agenda Setting for the Issue of Environmental Pollution - Christine Ader Mass-media Coverage, Its Influence on Public Awareness of Climate-Change Issues, and Implications for Japan's National Campaign to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Yuki Sampei and Midori Aoyagi-Usui Cultivation and Narrative Analyses Green or Brown? Television and the Cultivation of Environmental Concern - James Shanahan, Michael Morgan and Mads Stenbjerre Environmental Concern, Patterns of Television Viewing, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Integrating Models of Media Consumption and Effects - R. Lance Holbert, Nojin Kwak and Dhavan Shah Telling Stories about Global Climate Change: Measuring the Impact of Narratives on Issue Cycles - Katherine McComas and James Shanahan Part Four: Environmental Television and Film Television's Portrayal of the Environment: 1991-1995 - James Shanahan and Katherine McComas Environmental Content in Prime-Time Network TV's Non-News Entertainment and Fictional Programs - Katherine McComas, James Shanahan and Jessica Butler Hollywood Utopia: Ecology, and Contemporary American Cinema - Pat Brereton Domesticating Nature on the Television Set - Gregg Mitman 'Movements that are Drawn': A History of Environmental Animation from The Lorax to FernGully to Avatar - Nicole Starosielski Part Five:New Media, Digital Technologies, and the Environment From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activism, and the "Violence" of Seattle - Kevin DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples Power Games: Environmental Protest, News Media and the Internet - Libby Lester and Brett Hutchins Social Media and the Organization of Collective Action: Using Twitter to Explore the Ecologies of Two Climate Change Protests - Alexandra Segerberg and W. Lance Bennett VOLUME THREE: ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION Part One: Environmental Risk Communication Social-Discursive Constructions of Risks Perception of Risk - Paul Slovic The Emergence of Risk Communication Studies: Social and Political Context - Alonzo Plough and Sheldon Krimsky The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework - Roger Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne Kasperson and Samuel Ratick From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment - Ulrich Beck Environmental Risk and the Public Risk Communication: Facing Public Outrage - Peter Sandman On the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution - Ulrich Beck American Risk Perceptions: Is Climate Change Dangerous? - Anthony Leiserowitz Media and Environmental Risk Network Evening News Coverage of Environmental Risk - Michael Greenberg, David Sachsman, Peter Sandman and Kandice Salomone TV News, Lay Voices, and the Visualization of Environmental Risks - Simon Cottle Part Two: Climate Change Communication Communicating Climate Change Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values - Anthony Leiserowitz More Bad News: The Risk of Neglecting Emotional Responses to Climate Change Information - Susanne Moser 'Fear Won't Do It': Promoting Positive Engagement with Climate Change through Visual and Iconic Representations - Saffron O'Neill and Sophie Nicholson-Cole Beyond Frames: Recovering the Strategic in Climate Communication - Robert Cox Media and Climate Change Constructing Climate Change: Claims and Frames in US News Coverage of an Environmental Issue - Craig Trumbo Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the US Prestige Press - Maxwell Boykoff and Jules Boykoff Ideological Cultures and Media Discourses on Scientific Knowledge: Re-reading News on Climate Change - Anabela Carvalho Lost in Translation? United States Television News Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change, 1995-2004 - Maxwell Boykoff Visualizing Climate Change: Television News and Ecological Citizenship - Libby Lester and Simon Cottle Communication and Climate Change Denial Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy - Aaron McCright and Riley Dunlap Testing Public (Un)Certainty of Science: Media Representations of Global Warming - Julia Corbett and Jessica Durfee VOLUME FOUR: ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLICS: CITIZENS, CORPORATIONS, AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Part One: Public Participation in Environmental Decisions Environmental Communication and the Cultural Politics of Environmental Citizenship - Jacquie Burgess, Carolyn Harrison and P. Filius Citizen Participation and Environmental Risk: A Survey of Institutional Mechanisms - Daniel Fiorino Collaboration as a Deliberative Process - Steven Daniels and Gregg Walker The Environmental Self and a Sense of Place: Communication Foundations for Regional Ecosystem Management - James Cantrill The Trinity of Voice: The Role of Practical Theory in Planning and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Participatory Processes - Susan Senecah Part Two: Communication of Environmental Pressure Groups and NGOs Environment Groups' Uses of Media Source Strategies and the Communication of Environmental Affairs - Susan Senecah Imaging Social Movements - Kevin DeLuca Environmental Protest and Tap-Dancing with the Media in the Information Age - Brett Hutchins and Libby Lester Making the News: Movement Organizations, Media Attention, and the Public Agenda - Kenneth Andrews and Neal Caren Rhetorical and Discursive Studies of Environmental Sources Conservationism vs. Preservationism: The "Public Interest" in the Hetch Hetchy Controversy - Christine Oravec Introduction to Toxic Tourism: A Challenge - Phaedra Pezzullo Environmental Melodrama - Steven Schwarze A Two-Step Flow of Influence? Opinion-Leader Campaigns on Climate Change - Matthew Nisbet and John Kotcher Resisting 'National Breast Cancer Awareness Month': The Rhetoric of Counterpublics and Their Cultural Performances - Phaedra Pezzullo Part Three: Corporate Green Marketing and Public Relations Environmental Advertising Anatomy of Green Advertising - Easwar Iyer and Bobby Banerjee Shades of Green: A Multidimensional Analysis of Environmental Advertising - Subhabrata Banerjee, Charles Gulas and Easwar Iyer Environmental Advertising Claims: A Preliminary Investigation - Norman Kangun, Les Carlson and Stephen Grove Corporate "Green" Image Management Corporate Publics and Rhetorical Strategies: The Case of Union Carbide's Bhopal Crisis - Richard Ice Constructing the Environmental Spectacle: Green Advertisements and the Greening of the Corporate Image, 1910-1990 - Michael Howlett and Rebecca Raglon Image Repair Discourse and Crisis Communication - William Benoit Spinning Climate Change: Corporate and NGO Public Relations Strategies in Canada and the United States - Josh Greenberg, Graham Knight and Elizabeth Westersund

Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this authoritative and timely collection brings together key influential articles in the increasingly important area of environmental communication. The four volume set expertly maps the development of the field and provides a superb reference source for teachers, students and researchers. -- Alison Anderson As one of the founders of Environmental Communication, Dr. Cox is the best guide imaginable to the growing field. In the magisterial Environmental Communication, a four-volume collection of influential essays, Cox compiles a comprehensive and provocative overview for students and scholars alike. More importantly, this collection provides global citizens a handbook for thinking in our perilous times on a planet awash in myriad environmental crises -- Kevin DeLuca What I would have given for these volumes when first beginning research on environmental communication a decade or so ago, or earlier as a journalist trying to make sense of a confusing array of science, sources and political strategy. Ours is a challenging field, voluminous in its scope of interests, methods and theoretical possibilities. Here, two of its genuine leaders provide us with a pathway, choosing texts that highlight key moments in the field's development and suggest where we might look next. Whether you are new to the field or have been struggling for years to understand how shared environmental futures are negotiated, communicated and determined, these volumes are essential. -- Libby Lester