The International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) is pleased to announce Virtual COCE 2013.

For the first time ever, the Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) will be streamed live for anyone to watch for free.

This year's COCE–the 12th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment–is also the first to be held outside the United States. Experts from around the world will gather at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden from June 6-9 to present the latest research on environmental communication and to discuss the role of communication in helping to address regional, national, and international environmental issues and problems.

The theme of this year's conference is public participation, and many of the presentations will focus on what roles the public are playing and could be playing in ongoing issues and conflicts over land use, agriculture, forests, fresh water, oceans, climate change, energy, wildlife protection, and more. Many sessions will consider how the media influence environmental affairs, as well as the links between communication strategies and policy-making. Case studies come from around the world, and range from the local to the global.

The IECA is able to make Virtual COCE 2013 available for free thanks to a grant from the National Communication Association.

For more information about Virtual COCE 2013, or to register, please go to:
http://theieca.org/coce2013

The June, 2013 issue of ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION:  A JOURNAL OF NATURE AND CULTURE (special issue on visual environmental communication) has been published on line at www.tandfonline.com/renc.  Hard copy will be out shortly.

This issue was edited by Anders Hansen and David Machin. Good show, fellows!!

This issue is the first one in which we have tried to publish color images in an on-line only format. Take a look at the articles and let us know what you think.

Best way to support the journal is to promote it among your colleagues. And encourage your colleagues to join IECA. This organization is poised to make a difference in the years ahead!! Can't wait to see how it grows from here!!!

Environmental Communication:  A Journal of Nature and Culture

Volume 7, No. 2 (June, 2013)

 Special Issue:  Visual Environmental Communication

Anders Hansen and David Machin, Editors

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

Researching Visual Environmental Communication
Anders Hansen and David Machin

ARTICLES

Visualizing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Debate
Elizabeth A. G. Schwarz

Imaging Toxins
Jennifer Peeples

Selling Nature in a Resource-Based Economy: Romantic/Extractive Gazes and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands
Geo Takach

“Single-Minded, Compelling, and Unique”:  Visual Communications, Landscape, and the Calculated Aesthetic of Place Branding
Nicole Porter

The Nature of Time: How the Covers of the World’s Most Widely-Read Weekly News Magazine Visualize Environmental Affairs
Mark Meisner and Bruno Takahashi

Sporting Nature(s): Wildness, the Primitive, and Naturalizing Imagery in MMA and Sports Advertisements
Matthew Ferrari

Mobilizing Artists: Green Patriot Posters, Visual Metaphors, and Climate Change Activism
Brian Cozen