Mapping Environmental Risk and Energy Communication - Ecoculture in Energy Risk

This book explores how citizens impacted by HVHF articulate stories about the environmental, health, and conflict risks they face. It presents case studies from three U.S. communities to analyze how their sociocultural histories affect the framing of these stories and highlights successes in the inclusion of environmental justice in risk analysis.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Conflict: Stories of Language, Identity, Place, and Environmental Risk Practice
Chapter 2 Frames: Stories of Environmental Regulatory Bodies and Attempts to Deliberate About Risk
Chapter 3 - Linguistic Frames: Stories from Ohio and Pennsylvania and the difficulty of revealing environmental risk
Chapter 4: Linguistic Frames: Stories of environmental activism, New York, changing policy and practice
Ch. 5 Possibilities for Reframing Energy discourse, Positive Discourse Analysis

About the author

Barbara George is lecturer of writing and communication at Carnegie Mellon University.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara George, George Barbara
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781666926484
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-648-4
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Applied ecology, Communication Studies