Climate and Sustainability Communication

Climate and Sustainability Communication: Global Perspectives builds upon traditional approaches to understanding the role of mass media in shaping social issues by amplifying diverse perspectives of opinion leaders as well as voices of those affected by climate and sustainability issues. From South Korea and China to the United States and Zambia the studies reported in this bookâcompiled using a variety of formal research methods including content analysis interview and surveyâemphasize cultural orientation and global implications of climate and sustainability concerns and issues. The contributors explore the cultures geographies and media systems underpinning climate and sustainability campaigns emerging around the world how we theorize about them and the ways in which media are used to communicate about them. The way in which complex problems and opportunities associated with globalization and power inequities interplay with climate and sustainability communication requires creative interdisciplinary approaches. This book opens new conversations for integrating scholarly arenas of mass media communication science and environmental communication political communication and health communication as well as their respective theory and research method sets. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society. . Language: English