COMM 4250: Environmental Communication

This book, based on authoritative sources and reports, links environmental communication to different fields of competence: environment, sustainability, journalism, mass media, architecture, design, art, green and circular economy, public administration, big event management and legal language. The manual offers a new, scientifically based perspective, and adopts a theoretical-practical approach, providing readers with qualified best practices, case studies and 22 exclusive interviews with professionals

The primary question motivating this work is the question of why public and political debates about climate change, particularly in the United States, are so intransigent and vitriolic. Eubanks takes the position that the intransigence and vitriol are not simply explained in moralistic terms; rather, he argues, “the argumentative situation is affected by numerous factors that are both less noticeable and more damaging than its all-too-evident hostility suggests” (3). The book’s goal, then, is to identify and analyze those “numerous factors.”

The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies. Edited by Heike Graf, its focus is on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, shedding light on how these groups tell their distinctive stories of "the environment".