Environmental Communication And the Public Sphere - Couverture souple

Cox, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761930507 ISBN 13 : 9780761930501

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the first book to offer a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role of communication in influencing the ways in which we perceive the environment as well as what actions we and others take in our relations to the natural world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Cox is Professor Emeritus 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. A internationally-recognized leading scholar who helped found the field of environmental communication, Cox is coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (2015; second edition forthcoming), editor of the four-volume reference series Environmental Communication (Sage, 2016), and the author of numerous studies of environmental and climate change campaigns. He has served three times (1994-1996; 2000-2001; 2007-2008) as president of the Sierra Club, the largest grassroots U.S. environmental organization, and was also on the board of directors for Earth Echo International, whose mission is “to empower youth to take action that restores and protects our water planet.” Cox also continues to advise environmental groups on their communication programs. He regularly participates in environmental and climate change initiatives and has campaigned with former vice president Al Gore, singer Melissa Etheridge, and other public figures. He also enjoys hiking and trekking in the Himalayas, Europe, and the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761930507
• ISBN 13: 9780761930501
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 455
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible