Communicating Nature

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-11-06
Publisher(s): Island Pr
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Summary

A broader and more comprehensive understanding of how we communicate with each other about the natural world and our relationship to it is essential to solving environmental problems. How do individuals develop beliefs and ideologies about the environment? How do we express those beliefs through communication? How are we influenced by the messages of pop culture and social institutions? And how does all this communication become part of the larger social fabric of what we know as "the environment"? Communicating Nature explores and explains the multiple levels of everyday communication that come together to form our perceptions of the natural world. Author Julia Corbett considers all levels of communication, from communication at the individual level, to environmental messages transmitted by popular culture, to communication generated by social institutions including political and regulatory agencies, business and corporations, media outlets, and educational organizations. The book offers a fresh and engaging introductory look at a topic of broad interest, and is an important work for students of the environment, activists and environmental professionals interested in understanding the cultural context of human-nature interactions.

Table of Contents

The formation of environmental beliefsp. 12
A spectrum of environmental ideologiesp. 26
The links between environmental attitudes and behaviorsp. 57
Work and consumer culturep. 85
Leisure in nature as commodity and entertainmentp. 109
Faint-green : advertising and the natural worldp. 147
Communicating the meaning of animalsp. 176
News mediap. 213
Battle for spin : the public relations industryp. 247
Communication and social changep. 281
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