Bibliography of Books in Environmental Communication

This bibliography is maintained and frequently updated by Mark Meisner. It is a list of books that deal substantially with matters of environmental communication--broadly defined. This list should serve as a good overview of the field.

Table of Contents

• General Environmental Communication Textbooks
• General Environmental Communication Anthologies
• Conference Proceedings
• Environmental Rhetoric and Discourse
• Mass Media and Environmental Affairs
• Popular Culture / Green Cultural Studies
• Public Participation / Environmental Conflict
• Public Relations / Greenwashing
• Environmental Communication Skills
• Environmental Journalism Handbooks

General Environmental Communication Textbooks

Cox, Robert. (2006) Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Publisher's Web Site

Corbett, Julia B. (2006) Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages. Washington: Island Press. Publisher's Web Site

General Environmental Communication Anthologies

Cantrill, James G. & Oravec, Christine L. (eds.) (1996) The Symbolic Earth: Discourse and Our Creation of the Environment. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Publisher's Web Site

Herndl, Carl G. & Brown, Stuart C. (eds.) (1996) Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Publisher's Web Site

Moser, Susanne C. & Dilling, Lisa (2006) Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change & Facilitating Social Change. New York: Cambridge University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Muir, Star A. & Veenendall, Thomas L. (eds.) (1996) Earthtalk: Communication Empowerment for Environmental Action. Westport: Praeger Press. Publisher's Web Site

Waddell, Craig (ed.) (1997) Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and the Environment. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate. Publisher's Web Site

Conference Proceedings

Aepli, Marie-France; Delicath, John W. & Depoe, Stephen P. (eds.) (2001) Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati.

Cantrill, James & Killingsworth, M.J. (eds.) (1993) Proceedings of The Conference on Communication and Our Environment. Marquette, MI: Northern Michigan University.

Oravec, Christine & Cantrill, James G. (eds.) (1992) Proceedings of The Conference on the Discourse of Environmental Advocacy. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Humanities Center.

Sachsman, David B.; Salomone, Kandice, & Senecah, Susan (eds.) (1995) Proceedings of The Conference on Communication and our Environment. Chattanooga: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Scott, Daniel, et al. (eds.) (2000) Climate Change Communication: Proceedings of an International Conference. Waterloo: University of Waterloo.

Senecah, Susan (ed.) (1997) Proceedings of The Conference on Communication and Environment. Syracuse: State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Short, C. Brant & Hardy-Short, Dayle (eds.) (2001) Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University School of Communication.

Walker, Gregg B. & Kinsella, William J. (eds.) (2005) Finding our Way(s) in Environmental Communication: Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment. Corvalis: Department of Speech Communication, Oregon State University.

Willard, Barb & Green, Chris (Eds.). (2008). Communication at the Intersection of Nature and Culture: Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment. Chicago: College of Communication, DePaul University.

Environmental Language, Rhetoric and Discourse

Benton, Lisa M. & Short, John R. (1999) Environmental Discourse and Practice. Oxford: Blackwell. Publisher's Web Site

DeLuca, Kevin (1999) Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. New York: Guilford Press. Publisher's Web Site

Dryzek, John S. (2005) The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Ehrlich, Paul & Ehrlich, Anne (1996) Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future: Island Press. Publisher's Web Site

Fill, Alwin & Mühlhäusler, Peter (eds.) (2001) The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology, and Environment. London: Continuum. Publisher's Web Site

Hannigan, John (1995) Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. New York: Routledge. Publisher's Web Site Note the second edition below, which is quite different.

Hannigan, John (2006) Environmental Sociology. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. Publisher's Web Site

Harré, Rom; Brockmeier, Jens & Mühlhäusler, Peter (1999) Greenspeak: A Study of Environmental Discourse. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Publisher's Web Site

Killingsworth, M.J. & Palmer, Jackie (1992) Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Myerson, George & Rydin, Yvonne (1996) The Language of Environment: A New Rhetoric. Vancouver: UBC Press. Publisher's Web Site

Peterson, Tarla Rai (1997) Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. Publisher's Web Site

Peterson, Tarla Rai (ed.) (2004) Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology. College Station: Texas A & M University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Pezzullo, Phaedra C. (2007). Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Publisher's Web Site

Sandler, Ronald D. and Phaedra C. Pezzullo (eds.) (2007), Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Publisher's Web Site

Short, Brant (1989) Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984. College Station: Texas A & M University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Taylor, Bryan C.; Kinsella, William J.; Depoe, Stephen P. and Metzler, Maribeth S. (eds.) (2007) Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex. Lanham: Lexington Books. Publisher's Web Site

Waddell, Craig (2000) And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Mass Media and Environmental Affairs

Allan, Stuart; Adam, Barbara & Carter, Cynthia (1999) Environmental Risks and the Media. New York: Routledge. Publisher's Web Site

Anderson, Alison (1997) Media, Culture and the Environment. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Backes, David (1991) Canoe Country: An Embattled Wilderness. Minocqua, WI: NorthWord Press, Inc.

Chapman, Graham; Kumar, Keval; Fraser, Caroline & Gaver, Ivor (1997) Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North-South Divide. London: Routledge. Publisher's Web Site

Clow, Michael & Machum, Susan (1993) Stifling Debate: Canadian Newspapers and Nuclear Power. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing. Publisher's Web Site

Dale, Stephen (1996) McLuhan's Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media. Toronto: Between the Lines. Publisher's Web Site

Friedman, Sharon; Dunwoody, Sharon & Rogers, Carol (1986) Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News. New York: Free.

Gauntlett, David (1996) Video Critical: Children, the Environment and Media Power. Luton: John Libbey Media. Publisher's Web Site

Hansen, Anders (ed.) (1993) The Mass Media and Environmental Issues. Leicester: Leicester University Press.

LaMay, Craig & Dennis, Everette (eds.) (1991) Media and the Environment. Washington: Island Press. Publisher's Web Site

McKibben, Bill (1992) The Age of Missing Information. New York, Random House. Publisher's Web Site

Nelkin, Dorothy (1987) Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology. New York: W.H. Freeman. Publisher's Web Site

Neuzil, Mark & Kovarik, Bill (1996) Mass Media and Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Publisher's Web Site

Priest, Susanna Hornig (2001) A Grain Of Truth: The Media, The Public, and Biotechnology. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Publisher's Web Site

Rose, Tom (1989) Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event. London: Birch Lane Press.

Rubin, David & Sachs, David (1973) Mass Media and the Environment: Water Resources, Land Use and Atomic Energy in California. London: Praeger. Publisher's Web Site

Sandman, Peter; Sachsman, David; Greenberg, Michael & Gochfeld, Michael (1987) Environmental Risk and the Press: An Exploratory Assessment. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, Inc. Publisher's Web Site

Shanahan, James & McComas, Katherine (1999) Nature Stories: Depictions of the Environment and their Effects. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Publisher's Web Site

Smith, Conrad (1992) Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake. Westport: Greenwood Press. Publisher's Web Site

Smith, Joe (2000) The Daily Globe: Environmental Change, The Public and the Media. London: Earthscan. Publisher's Web Site

Walters, L.M.; Wilkins, Lee & Walters, T. (eds.) (1989) Bad Tidings: Communication and Catastrophe. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Publisher's Web Site

Wilkins, Lee (1987) Shared Vulnerability: The Media and American Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster. New York: Greenwood Press. Publisher's Web Site

Popular Culture / Green Cultural Studies

Bousé, Derek (2000) Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Publisher's Web Site

Brereton, Pat (2004) Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema. Bristol: Intellect. Publisher's Web Site

Burgess, Jaquelin & Gold, J.R. (eds.) (1985) Geography, the Media and Popular Culture. London: Croom-Helm. Publisher's Web Site

Davis, Susan G. (1997) Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press. Publisher's Web Site

Hochman, Jhan (1998) Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory. Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press.

Ingram, David (2000) Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. Publisher's Web Site

Jagtenberg, Tom & McKie, David (1997) Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps For Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, And Sociology. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Publisher's Web Site

Meister, Mark & Japp, Phyllis M. (2002) Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture. Westport: Praeger. Publisher's Web Site

Mitman, Gregg (1999) Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Parker, Lea., J. (2002) Ecoculture: Environmental Messages in Music, Art, and Literature. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt. Publisher's Web Site

Price, Jennifer (1999) Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. New York: Basic Books. Publisher's Web Site

Wilson, Alexander (1991) The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Toronto: Between The Lines. Publisher's Web Site

Public Participation & Environmental Conflict

Beierle, Thomas C. & Cayford, Jerry (2002) Democracy In Practice: Public Participation in Environmental Decisions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. Publisher's Web Site

Depoe, Stephen P.; Delicath, John W. & Elsenbeer, Marie-France Aepli (2004) Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making. Albany: State University of New York Press. Publisher's Web Site

Daniels, Steven E. & Walker, Gregg B. (2001) Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach. Westport: Praeger. Publisher's Web Site

O'Leary, Rosemary & Bingham, Lisa B. (2003) The Promise And Performance Of Environmental Conflict Resolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. Publisher's Web Site

Richardson, Mary; Sherman, Joan & Gismondi, Michael (1993) Winning Back the Words: Confronting Experts in an Environmental Public Hearing. Toronto: Garamond Press. Publisher's Web Site

Williams, Bruce A. & Matheny, Albert R. (1995) Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation. New Haven: Yale University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Public Relations / Greenwashing

Beder, Sharon (2002) Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism. (revised ed.). White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing. Publisher's Web Site

Flattau, Edward (1998) Tracking the Charlatans: An Environmental Columnist's Refutational Handbook for the Propaganda Wars. Washington: Global Horizons Press.

Greer, Jed & Bruno, Kenny (1996) Greenwash: The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism. New York: Apex Press. Publisher's Web Site

Hager, Nicky & Burton, Bob (2000) Secrets and Lies: The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. Publisher's Web Site

Stauber, John & Rampton, Sheldon (1995) Toxic Sludge is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. Publisher's Web Site

Environmental Communication Skills

Beamish, Richard (1995) Getting the Word Out in the Fight to Save the Earth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Biodiversity Project (2002) Ethics for a Small Planet: A Communications Handbook on the Ethical and Theological Reasons for Protecting Biodiversity. Madison: Biodiversity Project. Publisher's Web Site

Day, Brian A. & Monroe, Martha C. (eds.) (2000) Environmental Education & Communication for a Sustainable World: Handbook for International Practitioners. Washington: Academy for Educational Development. PDF

Hayes, Richard & Grossman, Daniel (2006) A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Jacobson, Susan K. (1999) Communication Skills for Conservation Professionals. Washington: Island Press. Publisher's Web Site

Jurin, Richard; Canter, Jeffrey & Roush, Donald (2000) Environmental Communication: Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and Engineers. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Leal Filho, Walter (2000) Communicating Sustainability. New York: Peter Lang. Web Site

McKenzie-Mohr, Doug (1996) Promoting a Sustainable Future: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing. Ottawa: National Roundtable on Environment and Economy. PDF

McKenzie-Mohr, Doug & Smith, William (1999) Fostering Sustainable Behaviour: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. Publisher's Web Site

Oepen, Manfred & Hamacher, Winfried (2000) Communicating the Environment: Environmental Communication for Sustainable Development. New York: Peter Lang. Publisher's Web Site

Parker, Lea J. (1997) Environmental Communication: Messages, Media and Methods: A Handbook for Advocates and Organizations. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. Publisher's Web Site for Second Edition

Environmental Journalism Handbooks

Friedman, Sharon & Freidman, Kenneth (1988) Reporting on the Environment: A Handbook for Journalists. Bethlehem, PA: Department of Journalism and Communication, Lehigh University. Author's Web Site

Frome, Michael (1998) Green Ink: An Introduction to Environmental Journalism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Publisher's Web Site

Goldberg, David (1999) Covering Urban Sprawl: Rethinking the American Dream. Washington: RTNDF. Publisher's Web Site

Keating, Michael (1992) Covering the Environment: A Handbook on Environmental Journalism. Ottawa: National Roundtable on Environment and Economy. Publisher's Web Site

Luechtefeld, Lori (2004) Covering Pollution: An Investigative Reporter's Guide. Columbia, MO: Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. Publisher's Web Site

West, Bernadette; Sandman, Peter M. & Greenberg, Michael R. (1995) The Reporter's Environmental Handbook. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Publisher's Web Site

Ward, Bud (2003) Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science. (3rd ed.). Washington: Environmental Law Institute. Publisher's Web Site

Please send suggestions, or if you are a publisher or author, copies of your book for additions to this list.

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