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
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Cassie Smith, University of Colorado Boulder
- The Roads Less Traveled: Looking for Certainty in the Colorado Roadless Rule and Media Coverage
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Hollie Smith, Todd Norton, & Ritch Woffinden, Washington State University
- Planning the Waterfront: An Examination of Diversity in Newspaper Content and Coverage
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Lisa-Anne Botticella & Michal Bardecki, Ryerson University, Canada.
- Contesting Property and Production: Dialectical Hegemony in the Case of The Earth Liberation Front
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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
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Jordan Smith, North Carolina State University
- Collaboration Avoided: The Construction of an Oil Pipeline in Minnesota
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Jessica A. Klassen, Texas A&M University
- Pluralism, Collaborative Potential, and Regional Sediment Management: Assessing the Situation via Stakeholders' Views
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Gregg B. Walker, Oregon State University
- Role of Environmental Communication in Shaping Remedy at America's Largest Superfund Site
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Pat Munday, University of Montana, Butte
Environmental Communication in Action: A Look at Theory-Practice Nexus
- Communication Consulting for a Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
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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
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Jean P. Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley
- Linking Production and Consumption with Deontologically Driven Symbolic Acts of Conservation and Humanitarianism
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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
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Christopher Gamble, University of Washington
- The Rhetoric of <Military Readiness>: Public Discourse, Whales and Navy Sonar
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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
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Chris Clarke, Cornell University
- Application of Integrative Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Model
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Ann Jabro, Robert Morris University
- Uncertainty Reduction and Media Complimentarity in Environmental Communication During Wildfire Emergencies
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Emily Hobbs, Michael Salvador, Matt Carroll, & Doug Hindman, Washington State University
Climate Change
- Organizational Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
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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
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Laura Kiesel, University of Vermont
- NIMBY, Inverted Quarantine, and GHOST: A Comparative Look at Constructions of Environmental Risk and Their Implications for Environmental Action
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Judith Hendry, University of New Mexico
Strategies for Communicating Environmental Issues
- A Sublime Junkyard?! Placing the Sublime in Contemporary Environmentalism
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Lisa Slawter Volkening, University of Georgia
- Virtually Natural: Environmental Education in Second Life
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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
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Diane Hope, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Influencing Decision Makers: Applying Psychology and Communication Research for Upstream Environmental Behavior Change
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Bruno Takahashi, SUNY Syracuse
Understanding Different Communities
- Vegan Soul Food: African-American Vegetarianism in Media
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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
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Lotten Westberg, Lars Hallgren, & Agneta Setterwall, Swedish University of Agriculture
- Landscape and Place Concepts Meeting through Encounters between Birdwatchers and Farmers
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Elvira Caselunghe, Helena Nordström Källström, & Johan Ahnström, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Natural Resources Management Approaches in Ethiopia in Retrospect
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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
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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
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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
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Maura Troester Nunez, University of Colorado-Boulder
Media Persuasion
- The Biosphere Metamorphosed as 'Buyosphere': The Human Footprint, Commercial Television, and Consumerism
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Matthew Killmeier, University of Southern Maine
- Struggling for Ideological Integrity in the Framing Process of U.S. Animal Rights Organization Food Campaigns
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Carrie Packwood Freeman, Georgia State University
Visualizing the Environment
- A Scenic Landscape or Devastating Catastrophe: Risk Communication through the Eyes of Photography
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Erin Dalton, Clemson University
- Participant Visual Ethnography: The Experience of Environmental Art
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Dylan P. Wolfe & David R. Novak, Clemson University
- Powering Our Energy: Conceptions of Energy in Contemporary Oil Company Advertising
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Brian Cozen, University of Washington
Physical Spaces
- Communication, Conflict and Science in Natural Resource Collaboration: A Case Study of an Inactive Collaborative Group
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Aleta Rudeen, Colorado State University
- Politics on the Trail: A Rhetorical Critique of Hidden Canyon Trail in Zion National Park
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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
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Catherine Schmitt, University of Maine
Citizenship/Public Participation
- Taking Public Out of Participation: How Rhetorical Conventions of Environmental Impact Statements Discourage Citizen Action
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Laura Vernon, Utah State University
- Public Participation in Energy Policy: A Case Study of the San Juan Citizens Alliance
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Andrea Marie Feldpausch, Texas A&M University