Contents of the 1993 Conference on Communication and Our Environment Proceedings

Preface

Reviewers for the Conference

Session 1: A Thematic Showcase

The Mass Media and Environmental Risk Communication: Then and Now

David B. Sachsman

To Stand Outside of Oneself: The Discourse of the Sublime in the Natural Landscape

Christine Oravec

The Significance of Rhetoric in the Turner Thesis

John Opie & Norbert Elliot

Environmental Rhetoric in the Age of Hegemonic Politics: Earth First! vs The Nature Conservancy

Marilyn M. Cooper

The Unifying Bases of a Thematic Showcase: A Response

James G. Cantrill (Respondent)

Session 2a: The News

Environmentalists Image Packages Created by Network News

James P. LaLumia Thomas Baglan

Success or Sell-Out: The Media Diffusion of the Environmental Movement

Elizabeth A. Manning

Media, Opinion, and Global Warming: An Agenda-Setting Study of an Environmental Issue 1988-1992

Craig Trumbo

In Nature's Image: Historical and Aesthetic Influences on Mediated Portrayals of the Natural Environment

Derek Bousé

Session 2b: Animal Talk

Threatened Whales, Polluted Beaches and Yellowstone on Fire: Network TV Images of the Environment in 1988

Conrad Smith

The Wolf at Yellowstone's Door: Cultural Rationality and Risk Communication in an Endangered Species Controversy

Patricia Paystrup

From Prohibition to Regulation: A Positive Campaign to Help the Survival of Rhinoceros

Ding-Ren Tsao and Yi Kung Ma

Session 3a: Discourse and Values

Why 'CIeaning Up The Environment' Is A Bad Idea

Mark S. Meisner

News about nature: John Dewey and the environmental crisis in the public mind

Allen W. Palmer

Fire, Death, and Rebirth: A Metaphoric Analysis of the 1988 Yellowstone Fire Debate

Dayle C. Hardy-Short & C. Brant Short

Environment, Development and the Rhetoric of International Consensus

Paul B. Thompson

Session 3b: Enviro-Political Communication

Ecology: Scientific, Deep, and Feminist

Markus J. Peterson & Tarla Rai Peterson

Steps to a Communication of Ecology: The Interrelationships of Systems in the Global Environmental Crisis

Peter A. Andersen

Radicalism and Its Effects on the Environmental Movement

Scott M. Elliott

Session 4: Policy and Public Planning Discourse

Barton Springs Ethnography: A Search for Discourse in the Depths of an Old Swimming Hole

Marshall Frech

Public Rhetoric and Environmental Policy: The IJC's Hearings on Great Lakes Water Quality

Craig Waddell

An Organizational Strategy for Realizing Sustainable Development in the Keweenaw

Jeffrey R. Liimatta

The Discourse of Policy and Public Planning: Commentary on Three Papers

James A. Throgmorton (Respondent)

Saturday Evening Special Session

Environmental Rhetoric and Landscape Photography: Modem to Postmodern

James Frost

Session 5a: Visions of the Environment

Phenomenological Optics and Air Pollution Standards: The Eye as Scientific Instrument

Kirk Junker

Environmental Constructs Revealed Through the Voices of the 'Other': Discourse Practices in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's 1542 La Relacion

Ramon Sanchez

Constitutive Rhetoric in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire

Michael A. Netzley

'Airborne Toxic Events' and the Explosion of Meaning

Beth Fiori

Session 5b: The Ecofeminist Challenge

Ecofeminism: Perspectives On A Social Movement

Kay Lynn Mickelsen

Ecofeminism As Transformative Discourse

Denice Yanni

Modem Social Texts: An Ecofeminist Analysis and Critique of Western Discourse

Diana M. Stroyls & Connie Bullis

The Discourse of Environmentalist Hysteria

M Jimmie Killingsworth & Jacqueiine S. Palmer

Session 6: Public Education

The Saguaro And The City: Developing A Model For The Production Of Interactive Multimedia Projects For Environmental Education

Peter Treistman

Gauging the Green Agenda

Mike Maher

Environmental Communication: A Process For Environmental Literacy

JoAnn Myer Valenti

Environmental Education As A Discourse Of Right Relation

Dennis Jaehne (Respondent)