Table of Contents

Part I: What Is Environmental Communication? Introduction and Structure of the Field 1. Expanding Conceptualizations of Environmental Communication Research Part II: Classical Approaches to Environmental Communication Research 2. Covering the Environment Beat: A Systematic Review of Research on News Media Coverage of the Environment 3. Media Effects in the Context of Environmental Issues 4. The Internet of Natural Things: Environmental Communication Online and in Social Media 5. Rhetorical Approaches in Environmental Communication 6. Comparing the Literature of Science, Risk, and Environmental Communication Part III: Thematic Chapters 7. Communicating Power and Resistance in the Global Food System: Emerging Trends in Environmental Communication 8. Plastic Communication Campaigns and Interventions: Foci, Theoretical Frameworks, Variables, and Methods 9. Plastic and the Environment: Background, Implications, and Challenges 10. The International Coverage of Biodiversity Loss Part IV: Internationalising Environmental Communication Research 11. Environmentalism of the Poor: Global South Perspectives on Environmental Communication 12. Rethinking Publics and Environmental Communication in Western and Eastern Cultures 13. Prioritizing Development, Vying for Attention: Factors Influencing the Practice of Environmental Journalism in the Global South 14. Challenging the Nation-State: Indigenous Nations in Science and Environmental Communication 15. Cultural Tailoring of Environmental Communication Interventions 16. Environmental Communication Research in the French-Speaking World Part V: Engagement with Environmental Affairs 17. Models of Attitudes, Intentions and Behaviors in Environmental Communication 18. The Role of Emotions in Environmental Communication 19. Environmental Communication and Policy Makers 20. Participatory Environmental Communication: Toward Enhanced Collaboration and Dialogue in Caribbean and Pacific Communities 21. Environmental Social Movements and Social Media 22. Social Media Influencers and Environmental Communication Part VI: Environmental Communication as Education 23. Rewilding Environmental Communication through Transformative Teaching 24. Revolutionaries Needed! Environmental Communication as a Transformative Discipline 25. Environmental Educommunication: EdTech’s Visual Media Trends for Environmental Learning Part VII: Emerging Areas in Environmental Communication Research 26. Neuroimaging in Environmental Communication Research 27. Virtual and Augmented Reality in Environmental Communication 28. Ecological Crisis as a Laughing Matter: Uses of Humor in Environmental Communication 29. Hearing Nature: Approaching International Environmental Communication through Music and Sound

About the Author

Bruno Takahashi is Associate Professor of Environmental Journalism and Communication at Michigan State University, USA, with a joint appointment in the School of Journalism and AgBioResearch.

Julia Metag is Professor of Communication Science at the Department of Communication at the University of Muenster, Germany.

Jagadish Thaker is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Suzannah Evans Comfort is Assistant Professor in the Media School at Indiana University, USA.

Reviews

"The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication brings together a brilliant group of interdisciplinary scholars to offer the latest theoretical and methodological developments in the field of environmental communication. This significant volume offers insights to environmental communication research by integrating cutting-edge approaches such as neuroimaging, and virtual and augmented reality. The editorial team went the extra mile to challenge existing dominant perspectives of environmental communication from and about populations in the Global South and disenfranchised populations in the Global North. This is a laudable endeavour that is sure to be valuable to scholars and students globally." – Shirley Ho, Professor of Communication at Nanyang Technological University and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Communication