The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of communication around rising global environmental challenges and public action to manage them now and into the future.

Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories, and areas of research. Chapters feature authors from a wide range of countries to critically review the genesis and evolution of environmental communication research and thus analyze current issues in the field from a truly international perspective, incorporating diverse epistemological perspectives, exciting new methodologies, and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks. The handbook seeks to challenge existing dominant perspectives of environmental communication from and about populations in the Global South and disenfranchised populations in the Global North.

The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication is ideal for scholars and advanced students of communication, sustainability, strategic communication, media, environmental studies, and politics.

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 Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand.

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