Contents of the 1997 Conference on Communication and Environment Proceedings

Preface

Conference Program

Greeting to Open the Council Fire

Henry Lickers - Mohawk Council of the Akwesasne

Rhetoric, Environment, and the Incorporation of Meaning

John Opie and Norbert Elliot

Using Narratives to Think About Environmental Attitude and Behavior

James Shanahan, Lisa Pelstring, and Katherine McComas

Nature Imagery in Indigenous Documentary

Steven Leuthold

Cultural and Critical Grammars of the Apocalypse: Strategies for a New Millennium

Star A. Muir

Define and Conquer: Technical Definitions and the Rhetoric of Risk Communication

J. Harrison Carpenter

Fusion Discourse: A Possibility For Public-Expert Communication Through Identification Of A Third Perspective

Caitlin M. Young

Reasons Why: Describing Polarized Orientations Toward Perception of Environmental Risk

Craig W. Trumbo

The Discourse of Pollution Prevention: A Rhetorical Analysis and Case Study

Nancy Walters Coppola

Viewers Work: Framing Environmentalists

James P. LaLumia

Computerized Content Analysis: Identifying Themes and Frames in Text on Pesticides, Wetlands, and Forest Salvage

Bonnie Parnell Riechert and M. Mark Miller

Packaging Nature from Farm Fields to Supermarket Shelves

Jean P. Retzinger

Recovering Environmental Discourse: A Historical-Rhetorical Analysis of Frederick Law Olmsted's Report, 'The Yosemite Valley and The Mariposa Big Trees'

Daniel O. Buchler

Association and Dissociation in an Ecological Controversy: The Great Whale Case

Francois Cooren and James R. Taylor

Condemning A Corporation: Exxon As Scapegoat

Terence Check

What's the Problem?: The Rhetorical Definition of Environmental Issues

Richard Jones

Magazines as a Medium for Environmental Communications

Donny Roush

Telling Stories about Global Climate Change: Measuring the Impact of - Narratives on Issue Cycles

Katherine McComas and James Shanahan

Escalation of Media Discourse About Nature: Deforestation of The Amazon '

Allen W. Palmer

Media Coverage of Sustainability: The Agenda, Frame And Sources

JoAnn M. Valenti, Lillian Billing, and Alisa P. Brousseau

Relationships between Individual and Community-Oriented Motivations: A Three-part study of Message Factors for Promoting Conservation of Communal Resources

C. B. Tyson

Redefining the Wilderness Experience: The Grand Canyon, Canyon Forest Village, and Controlled Tourism -

Dayle C. Hardy-Short and C. Brant Short

A Social Communication Analysis of Public Participation: The Case of the Cispus Adaptive Management Area

Amanda C. Graham

Public Involvement, Civic Discovery, and the Formation of Environmental Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the Fernald Citizens Task Force and the Fernald Health Effects Subcommittee

Stephen P. Depoe

Variability of Stakeholder Expectations about Citizen Participation in the Fernald Radium Debate

Jennifer Duffield Hamilton

Lessons from a Successful Grassroots Environmental Campaign: The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

David W. Shapiro

Collaborative Public Participation in Environmental Conflict Management: An Introduction to Five Approaches

Gregg B. Walker and Steven E. Daniels

Dumping in the Desert of the US/Mexico Border: Issues for the Environmental Justice Movement

John P. Linney

Pitching The Beast: Representations of Non-human Animals in Contemporary Print Advertising

Mark Meisner

Ecological Feminism and the Critique of Masculine 'Regulation' Based Discourse in Environmental Decision Making '

Frank P. Irizarry

An Empirical Exploration Of Ecofeminist Issues: Gender Differences And The Feminization Of Nature

Connie Bullis, Carrie Gartner, & JoAnne Gribble

Ecology According to Silent Spring's Vision of Progress

Tarla Rai Peterson and Markus J. Peterson

Strategic Rhetoric and the Control of Place from Wilderness to Ecosystem: An Exploration of the Legacy of Yellowstone National Park

Peter K. Bsumek

Chemical Manufacturers in Transition: Progressing from Closed to Open Systems

Ann D. Jabro

The New Casuistry: An Ethical Tool for Conflict Resolution in Environmental Decision Making

A. Chiaviello

Environmental Communication Survey

Lea J. Parker

Second Nature: Exploring Ecofeminism Through Creativity

Janine DeBaise, Patrick Lawler, and Kendall Watkins