Green Lawfare - The strategic use of law in mediatized environmental conflict

As environmental law continues to evolve at local and global levels, who are the actors informing its development and how are they engaging with news and other media to define what is possible? Observing the interlocking activities of journalists, activists, lawyers, scientists, government and industry can reveal the enactment of environmental law as part of a much wider struggle to bring visibility to and action on environmental issues.
Interdisciplinary in approach and bringing together key concepts from media and communication studies and environmental jurisprudence, Green Lawfare provides a conceptual framework from which to identify and analyze how news and other media contribute to our expectations and hopes for the role of law during environmental conflict.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Green Lawfare
Chapter 2: Communicating the Earth
Chapter 3: Finding common ground
Chapter 4: Green lawfare and protest
Chapter 5: Green lawfare and climate litigation
Chapter 6: Green lawfare and science
Chapter 7: Green lawfare and power
Chapter 8: Communicating common ground

About the author

Dr Claire Konkes is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Tasmania. Previous work as a journalist and environmental campaigner informs her research into the involvement of news and other media in the development of environmental policy and law.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Konkes
• Assisted by: Simon Cottle (Editor), Cottle Simon (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2024
• EAN: 9781433196478
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-9647-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 17 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Series: Global Crises and the Media
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous; Green, Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Claire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, ART / Business Aspects, Press & journalism, Howard, Digital lifestyle, Simon, Elizabeth, Conflict, Political science & theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, Environmental law, Mediatization, Central Europe, Western Europe, environmental, Strategic, Political science and theory, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Environment law, Media studies: Journalism, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Western Continental Europe, Rights of nature, Climate Litigation, risk communication, Environmental protest, environmental movement, Cottle, Mediatized, media logic, mediatized environmental conflict, environmental discourses, environmental jurisprudence, Konkes, media networks, Lawfare