This Blue Sky Workshop aims to bring together scholars working (or interested) in expanding and/or challenging the status quo and the western-centric approaches in environmental communication research. This workshop aims at opening spaces for conversations about a reimagined environmental communication research field. We hope that the discussions will serve as a foundation for a special issue in the journal Environmental Communication.

Together, we will reflect on the following themes and share our ideas and experiences as part of the workshop:

Water is the medium through which we experience many of the impacts of climate change: in droughts or floods, in melting glaciers, rising sea levels and more. Accordingly, visualisations of water or its absence have been at the core of climate change media discourse for decades and have shaped popular perceptions of this crisis. In recent years, ‘water resilience’ has increasingly been embraced as a tool for addressing the impacts of climate change and other ongoing stressors; not only as a tool for adaptation, but also as a tool for mitigation that addresses the water-energy nexus and greenhouse gas emissions from water infrastructure.