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Environmental Communication Special Issue
Communicating Hydrofracking 

Deadline 5th January 2015

I am pleased to announce that a new Special Issue of Environmental Communication has just been published online.

Environmental Communication: Research Into Practice

Online course: June 9 to July 17, 2014

Folks, I have been working hard behind the scenes to bring you four big new member benefits:

1. The Member News section
2. The Database of Nature and Environmental Films
3. The EC List Database
4. The Environmental Communication Master Bibliography

THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE LENS ARTICLE COLLECTION - FREE ACCESS
The environment has a massive impact on the media, culture, literature and our everyday lives. This tailored selection of articles seeks to give you some insight into recent trending environmental topics from the news and also looks to give researchers and practitioners in the field some insight into how culture and literature portrays environmental issues and debates. Taylor and Francis are giving free access to related articles in the following areas:

Reflections on COCE 2013
Stacey K. Sowards, Ph.D.
Department of Communication
The University of Texas at El Paso
Board Member, International Environmental Communication Association
June 16, 2013
 

The IECA Board and Executive Director Mark Meisner are very pleased to announce that the 13th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) will be held in Boulder, Colorado in 2015.

Our hosts will be J. Harrison Carpenter and Dale Miller of the University of Colorado Boulder, known as CU Boulder.

Dates have yet to be decided, but COCE 2015 will be some time in June.

Watch the IECA web site for more details. We hope to see you in Boulder.

Members and friends:  I was asked by Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, organizer of COCE 2013, to introduce the conference keynote speaker, John Dryzek.  As part of my introductory comments, I posed the question, "What will IECA look like in 2018?"  Here is how I answered the question---
 
In 2018, five years from now, IECA will have:
 
*achieved three consecutive years in which revenue meets or exceeds expenditures
 
*increased its individual membership three-fold, to over 850 members, with at least a third of those members coming from non-academic sectors (education, practitioner, NGO, etc.)
 
*increased its organizational members to 25
 

http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/est/world-environment-day-2013.php

I believe in IECA.
 
As I end my tenure as the first chair of IECA, I want to take a look back and note how far we’ve come together over the past five years—from IECA as a concept and hope to IECA as a reality and a force for social change.
 
In 2008, IECA was just an idea—a belief that environmental communication scholars, practitioners , and activists from all over the world should get together formally to share resources and try to make a difference in local communities.  The idea was shared in a couple of panels at two academic conferences—National Communication Association  (NCA) in San Diego and European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in Barcelona, and a movement was born.

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.

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.

The Editors of Environmental Communication have highlighted a selection of influential articles to aid your research. These articles reflect themes and ideas that have recently been in the media.

We are offering free access to the following articles:

Amplifiers on the Commons: Using Indicators to Foster Place-Based Sustainability Initiatives
James G. Cantrill

The program for this June's Conference on Communication and Environment in Uppsala Sweden is now online. It's going to be the biggest COCE ever and we look forward to seeing you in Sweden. More information about he conference is available on the COCE 2013 area.

IECA founding member Jennifer Good has a new book out: Television and the Earth: Not a Love Story. Good is an associate professor of communication, popular culture and film at Brock University. The summary of the book reads:

Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Vol. 7, No. 1, 01 Mar 2013 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online.

This is a special issue on The Symbolic Transformation of Space.

Online access to the journal is included in Regular, Student and Organizational memberships in The IECA.

With this issue, there is free access to some of the articles. For more information and to download papers, go here:

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/7/1

This new issue contains the following articles:

IECA members and friends:  Hi.  Three important things happened this week for our professional association:
1.  Vice-Chair Lee Ahern posted a draft Code of Ethics, and we fielded a productive range of comments about the substance of the code, as well as the role it might play in our association moving forward.  An important second conversation emerged about the need to make sure our policies and offerings truly reflect the "international" nature of our association.  In the coming weeks, a revised Code of Ethics will be discussed by the Board and, if approved, will be put before the membership for a vote.

In the context of a recent "fox attack" (no, not Fox News) in London, we want to draw your attention to an article just published in Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.

Are you thinking of attending the 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) in Uppsala this June?

If so, you have only 10 days left to take advantage of the early-bird discount. After February 15, prices go up.

You don't need to be an IECA member to attend, but if you want the member discount, then you need to make sure your membership is paid up for 2013.

Conference details are here: http://theieca.org/coce2013

Hope to see you in Sweden!