Earthtalk Communication Empowerment for Environmental Action

Subjects:

• Communications » Political Communications
• Political Science » American Politics/Government
• Science » Environmental Science

Reviews:

• This collection of essays explores the issue of environmental empowerment from a communication perspective. Starting from the premise that environmentalists now are facing more opposition to their efforts than they did in recent history, the authors examine the polarization that typifies so much of the current environmental rhetoric and how the extremist positions define and shift centrist policies.
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Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Strategies and Tactics of Earthtalk
• Ways We Talk About the Earth: An Exploration of Persuasive Tactics and Appeals in Environmental Discourse by Michael Spangle and David Knapp
• Environmental Risk Communication and Community Collaboration by Laura A. Belsten
• The Power of Media
• Activism in a Moderate World: Media Portrayals and Audience Interpretations of Environmental Activism by David Easter
• Constituting Nature Anew through Judgment: The Possibilities of Media by Kevin DeLuca
• Talking to Each Other About the Environment: Using Video Production to Instruct Adolescents About Recycling by Rod Carveth and Roger Desmond
• Resources of Language
• Forever Wild or Forever in Battle: Metaphors of Empowerment in the Continuing Controversy Over the Adirondacks by Susan Senecah
• The Rhetorical Function of "The Earth in the Balance" by Warren Sandmann
• Challenging to Dominion Covenant: The Preservationist Construction of an Environmental Past by Thomas R. Flynn
• Alternative Rhetorics
• In Search of Ecotopia: "Radical Environmentalism" and the Possibilities of Utopian Rhetorics by John W. Delicath
• Two Rivers, Two Vessels: Environmental Problem Solving in an Intercultural Context by Susan Mallon Ross
• Constructing a Goddess Self in a Technological World by Trudy Milburn
• Bibliography
• Index