Contents of the 2009 Conference on Communication and Environment Proceedings

Environmental Communication as a Nexus: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment

Eleanor Seitz, Travis Wagner, and Laura Lindenfeld, editors

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Conference Program

News Media Coverage and Environmental Issues

Definition by Dichotomy: News Coverage of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Cassie Smith, University of Colorado Boulder
 

The Roads Less Traveled: Looking for Certainty in the Colorado Roadless Rule and Media Coverage

Hollie Smith, Todd Norton, & Ritch Woffinden, Washington State University
 

Planning the Waterfront: An Examination of Diversity in Newspaper Content and Coverage

Lisa-Anne Botticella & Michal Bardecki, Ryerson University, Canada.
 

Contesting Property and Production: Dialectical Hegemony in the Case of The Earth Liberation Front

Ana Haase-Reed, Washington State University
 

Collaborations, Stakeholders, and Activism

Toward a More Complete Understanding of Sustainable Rural Community Development: Appreciating Systems and Interactional Theories

Jordan Smith, North Carolina State University
 

Collaboration Avoided: The Construction of an Oil Pipeline in Minnesota

Jessica A. Klassen, Texas A&M University
 

Pluralism, Collaborative Potential, and Regional Sediment Management: Assessing the Situation via Stakeholders' Views

Gregg B. Walker, Oregon State University
 

Role of Environmental Communication in Shaping Remedy at America's Largest Superfund Site

Pat Munday, University of Montana, Butte
 

Environmental Communication in Action: A Look at Theory-Practice Nexus

Communication Consulting for a Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

Joshua J. Frye, State University of New York at Oneonta
 

Alienating People from Place by Divorcing Production from Consumption

Animal, Vegetable or Mineral: Viewing Food Production through a TV Screen

Jean P. Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley
 

Linking Production and Consumption with Deontologically Driven Symbolic Acts of Conservation and Humanitarianism

Rachel Shellabarger, Nils Peterson, Erin Sills, & Sarah Warren, North Carolina State University
 

Human Nature Interactions

A Theory of Naturalization: The Alchemist's Cookbook for Transforming the "Social" into the "Natural" -- and Back Again

Christopher Gamble, University of Washington
 

The Rhetoric of <Military Readiness>: Public Discourse, Whales and Navy Sonar

Terence Check, St. John's University
 

Risk Communication

Seeking and Processing Information about Wildlife Disease Risk: A Proposed Model and Its Implications for Disease Management and Risk Communication

Chris Clarke, Cornell University
 

Application of Integrative Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Model

Ann Jabro, Robert Morris University
 

Uncertainty Reduction and Media Complimentarity in Environmental Communication During Wildfire Emergencies

Emily Hobbs, Michael Salvador, Matt Carroll, & Doug Hindman, Washington State University
 

Climate Change

Organizational Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

Jessica Thompson & Sarah Schweizer, Colorado State University
 

A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of US and UK Newspaper Coverage of the Correlation Between Livestock Production and Climate Change

Laura Kiesel, University of Vermont
 

NIMBY, Inverted Quarantine, and GHOST: A Comparative Look at Constructions of Environmental Risk and Their Implications for Environmental Action

Judith Hendry, University of New Mexico
 

Strategies for Communicating Environmental Issues

A Sublime Junkyard?! Placing the Sublime in Contemporary Environmentalism

Lisa Slawter Volkening, University of Georgia
 

Virtually Natural: Environmental Education in Second Life

Joseph S. Clark, University of Florida
 

(Re)Framing News as a Strategic Role for Environmental Communication: A Case Study of the Gas-Drilling Controversy in the Catskills

Diane Hope, Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Influencing Decision Makers: Applying Psychology and Communication Research for Upstream Environmental Behavior Change

Bruno Takahashi, SUNY Syracuse
 

Understanding Different Communities

Vegan Soul Food: African-American Vegetarianism in Media

Garrett Broad, University of Southern California
 

Communication as a Tool for Development of Competence within Natural Resource Management

Communicative Skills Development of Administrators - A Necessary Step for Implementing Participatory Policies in Natural Resource Management

Lotten Westberg, Lars Hallgren, & Agneta Setterwall, Swedish University of Agriculture
 

Landscape and Place Concepts Meeting through Encounters between Birdwatchers and Farmers

Elvira Caselunghe, Helena Nordström Källström, & Johan Ahnström, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
 

Natural Resources Management Approaches in Ethiopia in Retrospect

Atakilte Beyene, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
 

Excavating Public Participation: Critical Perspectives on Social-Political Dimensions

Colonizing participation: Land Use Management and Lifeworlds - Two Cases of Natural Resource Management in Sweden

Per Haglind & Elin Ångman, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
 

'The Void of Illegitimacy': Grounding the Methodology of Dialogical Boundary Critique for the Facilitation of Stakeholder Planning in Philippines Integrated Coastal Management Policy

Rasmus Klocker Larsen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
 

Eco-cultural Manifestations and Reverberations: Discursively Negotiating the Human- Environment Nexus

The Tao of Food Activism: Using Institutions to Fight Institutions

Maura Troester Nunez, University of Colorado-Boulder
 

Media Persuasion

The Biosphere Metamorphosed as 'Buyosphere': The Human Footprint, Commercial Television, and Consumerism

Matthew Killmeier, University of Southern Maine
 

Struggling for Ideological Integrity in the Framing Process of U.S. Animal Rights Organization Food Campaigns

Carrie Packwood Freeman, Georgia State University
 

Visualizing the Environment

A Scenic Landscape or Devastating Catastrophe: Risk Communication through the Eyes of Photography

Erin Dalton, Clemson University
 

Participant Visual Ethnography: The Experience of Environmental Art

Dylan P. Wolfe & David R. Novak, Clemson University
 

Powering Our Energy: Conceptions of Energy in Contemporary Oil Company Advertising

Brian Cozen, University of Washington
 

Physical Spaces

Communication, Conflict and Science in Natural Resource Collaboration: A Case Study of an Inactive Collaborative Group

Aleta Rudeen, Colorado State University
 

Politics on the Trail: A Rhetorical Critique of Hidden Canyon Trail in Zion National Park

Samantha Senda-Cook, University of Utah
 

What We Talk about When We Talk about Recreation Outdoor Experience, Access to the Coast, and Relationship with Nature

Catherine Schmitt, University of Maine
 

Citizenship/Public Participation

Taking Public Out of Participation: How Rhetorical Conventions of Environmental Impact Statements Discourage Citizen Action

Laura Vernon, Utah State University
 

Public Participation in Energy Policy: A Case Study of the San Juan Citizens Alliance

Andrea Marie Feldpausch, Texas A&M University