Environment, media and communication /

Hansen, Anders, 1957-

Environment, media and communication / Anders Hansen. - Second edition. - xviii, 244 pages ; 25 cm. - Routledge introductions to environment series. Environment and society texts .

Previous editon: 2010. Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editor's preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Communication and the construction of environmental issues -- Chapter 3. Making claims and managing news about the environment -- Chapter 4. The environment as news: News values, news media and journalistic practices -- Chapter 5. Popular culture, nature and environmental issues -- Chapter 6. Selling "nature/the natural": Advertising, nature, national identity, nostalgia and the environmental image -- Chapter 7. Media, publics, politics and environmental issues -- Chapter 8. Environment, media and communication - looking back, looking forward.

"Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Communication; Founder and immediate-past Chair of the IAMCR Group on Environment, Science and Risk Communication; Founding member, and Executive Board Member and Secretary 2011-2015, of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA)"-- "The second edition of Environment, Media and Communication builds on the first edition's framework for analysing and understanding media and communication roles in the politics of the environment. It draws on the significant and continuing growth and advances in the field of environmental communication research to show the increasing diversification and complexity of environmental communication and to stress the persistent urgency of analysing and understanding how communication about the environment is being influenced and manipulated, with implications for how and indeed whether environmental challenges are being addressed and dealt with. This book will be of interest to students in media/communication studies, geography, environmental studies, political science and sociology as well as to environmental professionals and activists"--

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Mass media and the environment.



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