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Analyzing the Role of Localized Cultural Narratives in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Muhammad Dimas, Lerthy Menthary Suek, Dewi Rafika Sari, Palguna Wiranata
Published in Environmental Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Alchemical Rhetoric in the Anthropocene: A Critical Review of Extraction Politics by Nicholas S. Paliewicz Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Hannah Oxford
Published in Environmental Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Human and Non-human Co-existence in the Urban Dystopia: Review of the Documentary All that Breathes Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Neha Nandani, Mahesh Kumar Meena
Published in Environmental Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Wildlife in Vernacular as a Means for an Inclusive Environmental Sector and Community Engagement in South Africa Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Fortunate M. Phaka
South Africa has contrasts between integrative environmental law and pre-democratic social exclusion in the environmental sector. Communicating wildlife in vernacular, sharing wildlife knowledge in...
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Framing Climate Solutions: An Exploratory Quantitative Content Analysis Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Kathryn Thier, Xingman Wu
News warning about climate risks has not typically included information about how society can respond, but journalism about credible efforts to address climate change is becoming more prevalent. To...
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Communicating Archipelagically in/with the Caribbean and Beyond Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 María (Fer)nanda Ortiz-Vivas
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 6, 2024)
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Hydro-Rugging as Reparative Caring Encounter: Re-Membering Southern Oceanic Hauntologies Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Aaniyah Martin
Expanding beach clean-ups to more than just removing plastic from the shoreline, citizens are invited to dwell with the ecological crisis and its intersectional entanglements of historical injustic...
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Regenerative Futures within E. Cram’s Violent Inheritance: Queer Decolonial Rhetorics in Environmental Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Genevieve Pfeiffer
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 6, 2024)
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Movement as Environmental Communication: A Heuristic of Embodied Rhetorical Placemaking Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Bryan Picciotto
This essay develops the theorization of movement as a mode of environmental communication, offering a heuristic of embodied rhetorical placemaking through the concepts of passage, event, and interv...
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River Communities, Disaster Science, and the Politics of Water Safety: Understanding Water Quality Debates in the Aftermath of the Gold King Mine Spill Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 R. Holmes, A. Kroepsch, K. Singha
After environmental disasters, scientific claims about environmental risk face a paradox. Impacted communities turn to scientific bodies for safety information, yet scientific findings are often ch...
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Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Tamara Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, Nike Romano
Our oceanic swimming practice began as part of the project of doing scholarship differently in contemporary South African post-apartheid contexts. Swimming-writing-reading not only enables differen...
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Promoting Ecoliteracy through Communication: How Language Can Shape Our Relationship with the More-than-Human World Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Amir Ghorbanpour, Hossein Davari
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 6, 2024)
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Communication Technology and Environmental Communication: Challenges, Opportunities, and Emerging Agendas Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Liang Chen, Jingyuan Shi
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 5, 2024)
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Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Kate Smith, Briony McDonagh, Ed Brookes
Artistic works informed by the global climate emergency are now common. Yet research typically focuses on the role of art in climate communication, rather than evaluating opportunities for large-sc...
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Dry Spells, Drought, and Environmental Crisis: The Drought Feature in Australian Women’s Weekly Magazine, 1939–2019 Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Rosemary Williamson
Drought in Australia is expected but with climate change will worsen. Popular magazines can draw attention to and depict drought in distinctive as well as conventional ways, as shown by an analysis...
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Green and Good? Examining Intended and Unintended Effects of Morally Framed Climate Messages Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Cassandra L. C. Troy, Nicholas Eng, Chris Skurka
Based on Moral Foundations Theory, message framing, and the Sacred Values Protection Model, this pre-registered experiment tested the effects of five different moral frames in climate change messag...
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“Climate-Solutions Polarization”: A Value-based Approach to Understanding Polarization Dynamics around Biomass in Dutch Media Discourse Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Christel W. van Eck, Anke Wonneberger, Jeroen Jonkman, Christian Burgers
Polarization dynamics around climate change are shifting from debates about the reality and severity of climate change to debates about climate solutions. We propose taking a value-based approach t...
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Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Joanne C. Marras Tate
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 5, 2024)
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Framing the Wind: Media Coverage of Offshore Wind in the Northeastern United States Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Emily Diamond, Nikol Damato, David Bidwell, Tiffany Smythe
Media coverage shapes public acceptance of renewable energy, but how offshore wind is being communicated to the public, particularly in the United States, is understudied. This study investigates t...
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Go Negative for Clicks: Negative Sentiment in Environmental Advocacy Emails Is Associated with Increased Public Engagement Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 P. Sol Hart, Stuart N. Soroka, Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice
In light of environmental challenges, environmental advocacy organizations are seeking optimal ways to increase public engagement. There is debate over whether positive or negative sentiment in adv...
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Instagram as an Arena of Climate Change Communication and Mobilization: A Discourse Network Analysis of COP26 Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Mark C. J. Stoddart, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, David B. Tindall
Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings on climate change are opportunities for social movements and other non-state actors to engage in climate change communication and mobilization. We focus on ...
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A Risky Business? Climate Change and Meat Reduction in Aotearoa New Zealand. A Media Framing Analysis Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Amanda Booth, Mary Breheny, Denise Blake
The reduction of red meat in high-income countries is an impactful climate action and necessary to balance the projected growth of meat consumption in middle-income countries. Aotearoa New Zealand ...
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Not Zero by 2050: BP and Quid Pro Quo Sustainability Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 L. D. Mattson
While oil companies are known to proliferate strategic economic and moral discourses, less is known about their attempts to continue legitimizing their organizations in an age of energy transition....
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Tarpuna: Embodied Engagement in Ecocultural Documentary Filmmaking Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Nehemías Toro Padrón
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 5, 2024)
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REDD+ and the Marketization of Conservation: Imagining Decolonial Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Beatriz Sprada Mira, Myrian Del Vecchio-Lima
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 5, 2024)
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From Denial to the Culture Wars: A Study of Climate Misinformation on YouTube Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Lluis de Nadal
Climate change is becoming a new front in the culture wars, with YouTube as one of its key arenas. Centered on an “Alternative Influence Network” orbiting Spain’s right-wing populist party Vox, thi...
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Virtual Environment, Real Impacts: A Self-determination Perspective on the use of Virtual Reality for Pro-environmental Behavior Interventions Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Sherry R. Xiong, Shirley S. Ho, Wenqi Tan, Benjamin J. Li, Grzegorz Lisak
Plastic waste is a serious environmental problem worldwide. Effective environmental communication is key to mobilizing the public to adopt pro-environmental behaviors for reducing plastic waste. Wh...
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Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Carol Morris, Catherine Price, Brigitte Nerlich
Biochar is a land-based greenhouse gas removal technology with potential to address the climate crisis. This article examines societal debate and discussion around biochar as represented in the UK ...
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Exploring Transition Tensions in Public Opinion on the COP26 Coal Phase-out Deal for South Africa as Expressed on Facebook Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Dominic Ayegba Okoliko, Martin Petrus de Wit
The 2021 COP26 meeting presented South Africa with an $8.5 billion deal to reduce its heavy reliance on coal, sparking a renewed public debate about transforming the country's coal-fired energy sys...
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One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Jialing Huang, Janet Z. Yang, Shujiao Zhang
The perceived temporal distance of climate change impacts has been considered a long-standing barrier to climate engagement. Because nostalgia has distinct cognitive properties related to temporal ...
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Increasing Challenges and Shrinking Roles of Environmental Journalists in Nepal Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Samiksha Koirala, Shreeman Sharma
This study investigates the perceived challenges of environmental journalists in Nepal, examining individual and organizational barriers to effectively covering environmental issues. Based on in-de...
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The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 José Castro-Sotomayor
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2024)
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The Impact of Public Deliberation and Identity-Based Storytelling on Civic Empowerment among Latinx Communities on Environmental Issues Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Amanda L. Molder, Isabel I. Villanueva, Kaiping Chen
Environmental issues already disproportionately impact communities of color in the U.S., where there is a long and well-established history of environmental racism. Despite efforts to diversify voi...
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Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Dickon Bonvik-Stone, Karen Victoria Lykke
Norway is committed to promoting energy from renewable sources, but wind power installations are often sited in areas where the environment remains relatively untouched. This has generated a debate...
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An Experimental Study of Climate Change Messages: Who and How Many to Feature? Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Urooj S. Raja, Amanda R. Carrico
There is some evidence to suggest an absence of emotional activation about climate change, partly due to the perception of it as a distant phenomenon. Little research to date has also examined whet...
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FutureCoast: A Playful Way to Assess Public Perceptions for Better Climate Change Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Ben Orlove, Stephanie Pfirman, Gina Stovall, Theresa Hernandez, Kate Redsecker, Ken Eklund, E. Bachrach Simon
We examine how the FutureCoast storytelling game creates an accessible, online space to explore the climate problem and its impacts, as well as to glean insights regarding player perceptions. Throu...
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Does the Use of Media and Other Information Sources Cause the Perceived Experience of Climate Change or is it the Other Way Around? Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Sonny Rosenthal, Pengya Ai
The perceived experience of climate change can be an important motivator of individual climate action. Recent scholarship argued that the use of media and other information sources is a basis of pe...
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The Green Beat: Exploring India’s Environmental Journalism and Climate Change Issues Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Emenyeonu C. Ogadimma
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2024)
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Transmitting the Transition in a Moment of Climate Crisis: An Analysis of Intermediaries’ Communication Practices Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Daniel Wuebben, Juan Romero-Luis, Alejandro Carbonell-Alcocer
Distinct rhetoric and approaches are used to communicate the facts and possibilities of the climate crisis and energy transitions. To better understand climate and energy-related communication prac...
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Shifting from Information- to Experience-Based Climate Change Communication Increases Pro-Environmental Behavior Via Efficacy Beliefs Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Adéla Plechatá, Marijke Hiltje Hielkema, Lisa-Marie Merkl, Guido Makransky, Michael Bom Frøst
To reach necessary greenhouse gas emissions targets, behavior change is necessary at the consumer level. However, standard information-based interventions struggle to change environmentally impactf...
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Communicating Environmental and Ecological Sciences through Visual Arts: A Cross-Disciplinary Review Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Kyra Ricci, Nan Li
The intersection of environmental communication and visual arts has emerged as a burgeoning area of scholarly interest, holding promise for both theoretical advancement and innovative applied resea...
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Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Sarah Riddick
Television climate fiction is an emerging, promising genre for environmental communication. Because audience uptake of this genre’s early texts will likely influence future texts’ production, it is...
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Sustainable Flying? The Effects of Greenwashed Claims in Airline Advertising on Perceived Greenwashing, Brand Outcomes, and Attitudes Toward Flying Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Ariadne Neureiter, Melanie Hirsch, Jörg Matthes, Brigitte Naderer
To respond to consumers’ rising concerns about environmental topics, airlines increasingly use green advertising. However, due to the environmental impact of flying, many green advertisements by ai...
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Communicating Climate Change in the Era of Anxiety: Testing a Double-Moderated-Mediation Model Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Kyongseok Kim
Research investigating the effectiveness of proximizing climate change, guided by Construal Level Theory (CLT), has produced mixed results regarding its ability to foster climate engagement. This s...
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“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Liisa Kääntä, Merja Koskela, Henna Syrjälä, Eveliina Salmela
In this study, we explore how expertise and responsibility are discursively intertwined in professional media. Based on quotations from building and real-estate industry professionals in news texts...
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The Renewable Energy Transition and “the People” – Exploring the Intersections of Right-wing Populism and the Renewable Energy Transition in Portuguese Media Discourses Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Andreia Valquaresma, Susana Batel, Ana Isabel Afonso, Rita Guerra, Luís Silva
Local contestation to the deployment of large-scale renewable energy infrastructures has been increasing. Right-wing populism has also been on the rise across the world. This article aims to explor...
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Divergent Views and Common Values: Comparing Sustainability Understandings Across News Media, Businesses, and Consumers Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Irina Lock, Anke Wonneberger, Penny Steenbeek
Sustainability has become a widely used term in public discourse, yet it is connected to a variety of meanings with diverging implications for possible societal, political, and economic solutions. ...
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Did Increased Media Coverage of Climate Change and the COVID19 Pandemic Affect Climate Change Concern and Issue Salience in the UK in 2021? Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Pete Lampard, Hilary Graham, Stuart Jarvis
Evidence from high-income countries suggests that greater media coverage of climate change is associated with greater public concern, while societal “shocks” reduce concern. Conducted in 2021, this...
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Testimonios and Querencia Craft a Counternarrative to the Manhattan Project Nuclear Story Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Cynthia P. Marentes
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2024)
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Communicating the “Social Meaning[s] of Shale” Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jordan B. Kinder
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2024)
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(Un)believably Green: The Role of Information Credibility in Green Food Product Communications Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Milica Mladenovic, Hans van Trijp, Betina Piqueras-Fiszman
This research explored how variations in green information influence consumer responses to green food packaging. Study 1 (N = 355) addressed how consumers evaluate packaging sustainability given th...
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Articulating a Loss and Damage Fund: How the Global South is Rethinking Agency and Justice in an Age of Climate Disasters Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, Phaedra C. Pezzullo
The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response ...
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Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Clara Christner, Pascal Merz, Berend Barkela, Hermann Jungkunst, Christian von Sikorski
In this study, we investigated whether corrections can combat climate disinformation. Using a preregistered quota-based online experiment in Germany (N = 1401), we tested how the effectiveness of d...
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Three Key Dimensions of Climate Change from Opinion News in a Malaysian Newspaper Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Tasha Erina Taufek, Azhar Jaludin
Previous studies have pointed to a notable increase in public interest on climate change using the survey method. These studies documented public opinion on climate change using survey method to de...
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Can Information Change People’s Mind? An Autoethnographic Reflection on my Personal Journey to Veganism Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Silje Kristiansen
This autoethnographic essay portrays how a profound change of thinking and lifestyle can be triggered by mass media coverage and how a lifestyle can be sustainably changed although it goes against ...
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Dear Tampa Bay: Creating and Leveraging a Climate Resilience Documentary Film Using Story-Telling for Citizen Engagement Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rebecca Johns, Sierra Raines, Amanda Moore, Melissa Hill, Paige Lansky, Arsum Pathak
Increasing the climate literacy of local leaders in the Tampa Bay region is critical if the area is to successfully face the rising challenges of the climate crisis. One of the most vulnerable area...
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The “Greta Effect” on Social Media: A Systematic Review of Research on Thunberg’s Impact on Digital Climate Change Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Niels G. Mede, Ralph Schroeder
Greta Thunberg is a major figure in climate change discourse, featuring prominently in the news and social media. Many studies analyzed the “Greta effect,” but there has not been a review that inte...
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The Albatross and the Ethnographer Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 D. Soyini Madison
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 1-2, 2024)
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Whose Authority Drives the Narrative?: Framing the Spread of Mountain Pine Beetle in Canadian News Media Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Jenna Hutchen, Valerie Berseth, Vivian Nguyen
Climate change is facilitating the expansion of biorisks (invasive species, viruses, diseases) into new environments. While news media are a key site where expert authorities communicate about risk...
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Social Constructions of Climate Futures: Reframing Science’s Harmful Impact Frame Across News Media, Social Movements, and Local Communities Environmental Communication (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Lars Guenther, Youssef Ibrahim, Jana Lüdemann, Coral Iris O’Brian, Christopher N. Pavenstädt, Inga Janina Sievert, Michael Brüggemann, Simone Rödder, Michael Schnegg
Climate research has established a cultural authority in modelling our future with climate change, and often uses a harmful impacts frame to communicate about climate change and climate futures. Th...