The Seventh Edition of the award-winning Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the best-selling comprehensive introduction in the field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive, transform, and attempt to heal relations with everything we consider to be “the environment” – from microscopic chemicals in cosmetics to the climate we breathe. Authors Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Robert Cox examine how we define what constitutes an environmental problem and how we decide what actions to take concerning the natural world. The updated and revised Seventh Edition explores recent events and research that have emerged since the last edition, including: the latest on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on journalism, climate commitments of Big Tech, global climate justice course cases, mutual aid networking, ultra-processed food policy, anti-plastics advocacy, expanding legal rights of nonhuman animals, and more. 

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Coverage of recent events and trends includes carbon inequality and the unsustainable lifestyles of billionaires, the Big Tech move to nuclear energy to support AI, forest bathing, rewilding, linkages between pesticides and cancer, climate anxiety, climate tipping points, environmental backlash, global climate justice court cases, criminalizing protest, mutual aid networking, ultra processed food impacts on public health, anti-plastics advocacy, and more.
• A new chapter on contested discourses focuses on communicating climate change keeps the subject matter timely and significant for today’s students from a range of disciplines.
•  Inclusion of emerging research in new and growing areas of inquiry, such as the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on journalism, metaphors of energy, the limitations of the “carbon footprint” campaign versus climate shadow, quadrants of engagement, corporate exceptionalism, and more.
• An updated Table of Contents with subtitles to make foreshadowing of the examples in each chapter more transparent for students.
• The latest scholarship and public insights include over 150 new references and over 40 new key terms.

KEY FEATURES:

• Chapter-opening learning objectives identify what students should be able to accomplish after studying a chapter.
• Globally diverse images and case studies of environmental leaders, practices, and movements reinforce the theories presented.
• Act Locally! exercises give students opportunities to apply the principles of environmental communication to their campus and community.
• Another Viewpoint sections highlight the dynamic discussions and multiple perspectives that have made an impact in environmental communication.
• FYI boxes give attention to various topics and issues in environmental communication, from updating climate reporting language to the seven sins of greenwashing.
• Summaries, discussion questions, and key terms at the end of chapters allow students to review content covered and reinforce their understanding.
• Chapter-concluding suggested resources provide recommended readings, movies, podcasts, and websites for further examination of topics.

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