| Environmental Communication Four-Volume Set Edition Contributor(s): Cox, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1473902525 ISBN-13: 9781473902527 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $1217.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 333.720 |
| LCCN: 2015936495 |
| Series: Sage Benchmarks in Communication |
| Physical Information: 4.2" H x 6.6" W x 9.6" (6.85 lbs) 1704 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Environmental communication is a rapidly expanding field of study, encompassing a wide range of topics such as social-discursive constructions of nature, journalism and media coverage of the environment, climate change communication, analyses of environmental rhetoric, public participation in environmental decisions and environmental risk communication to name but a few. This Major Work draws on a wide and varied range of sources to construct a comprehensive overview of the key issues in this fast-developing and highly topical area of research. Volume One: Origins, Approaches and Principles Volume Two: Media and Environmental Journalism Volume Three: Environmental Risk and Climate Change Communication Volume Four: Environmental Publics: Citizens, Corporations and Non-Governmental Organizations |
Contributor Bio(s): Cox, Robert: - Robert Cox (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and the Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology 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 editor of Environmental Communication, a 4-volume reference collection (SAGE, 2016), coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (2015), and author of numerous studies of environmental, climate and other social change campaigns. He served three times as President of the Sierra Club, the largest grassroots U.S. environmental organization, as well as serving on the board of directors for Earth Echo International. Cox has campaigned on environmental concerns with former Vice President Al Gore, singer Melissa Etheridge, and other public figures; he continues to advise environmental groups on their communication programs, and regularly participates in environmental and climate change initiatives such as the Peoples Climate March. He has enjoyed hiking in the Himalayas and the southern Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. |