Contents of the 2003 Conference on Communication and Environment Proceedings

Finding Our Way(s) in Environmental Communication: Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment

Gregg B. Walker and William J. Kinsella, editors

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Education, Information, and Ecotourism

AquaNews: The Continuing Evolution of Environmental Education at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre

Sabrina Cianciullo Kemp, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre

Farmers' Uses of Environmental Information Channels: A Multi-Channel Repertoire Approach

Heather J. Ward, San Diego State University
Garrett J. O'Keefe, Colorado State University
Robin Shepard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marketing Biodiversity: The Skyrail Rainforest Cableway as Ecotourism

Catherine Ann Collins, Willamette University

Paradise Found: How the Indigenous Maori Population Grounds New Zealand's Green Ethic

Laura Perkins, Southern Illinois University

Toxic Tours as Environmental Advocacy Tourism: Communicating Pain Through the Shared Performance of Embodied Rhetorics

Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Indiana University

Decision-Making and Public Participation

Embracing the Paradoxical in Environmental Decision-Making

Markus J. Peterson, Texas A&M University
M. Nils Peterson, Michigan State University
Tarla Rai Peterson, University of Utah

The Permit Battle on the Colorado River: Can Process Make a Difference?

Jane B. Campbell, University of Utah

Sustained Public Participation and Evolving Perspectives of Nuclear Weapons Cleanup

Jennifer Duffield Hamilton, University of Cincinnati

Public Participation in Environmental Policy: An Evaluation of Iowa's Regulations for Permitting Confined Animal Feeding Operations

Richard McGrath, Central College

Setting Site-Specific Water Quality Standards for Ammonia Using Collaborative Processes in Johnson County and Topeka, Kansas: A Retrospective Analysis

James R. Triplett, Pittsburg State University
Shirley Drew Triplett, Pittsburg State University

Pulling Together to Move Ahead: Striving for Environmental Justice in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Eric L. Marsh, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are - Finding Solutions for Hidden Peak

Jessica Durfee, University of Utah

Of Government and Governance

Pragmatic Idealism and Latent Exigency in Political Environmental Rhetoric: A Critical Reading of President Bush's June 11, 2001 Address to the Nation on Climate Change Policy Options

Joshua Frye, Purdue University

The Terrorists' Attack on the United States: The Impetus for Change to Community Right-to-Know Information

Ann D. Jabro, Robert Morris University

Radioactive Waste Storage Discourse: After an Initiative Campaign, What is the Issue, and is there Room for Collaboration?

Ann Carlstrom, University of Utah

Section 4(f) and Transportation Planning: Citizen Ideals vs. Consumer Preferences

Gordon Steinhoff, Utah State University

Comprehensive Community Planning: Multiple Dimensions of Power

Todd Norton, University of Utah

Assessment

Environmental Communications Assessment: A Framework of Analysis for Environmental Governance

Emanuele Santi, The World Bank
Lucia Grenna, The World Bank

Assessing the Promise and Potential for Collaboration: The Progress Triangle Framework

Gregg B. Walker, Oregon State University
Steven E. Daniels, Utah State University

Theoretical and Conceptual Developments

Mythic Arcadia: Reading the Landscapes of Conservation Communities

Barb Willard, DePaul University

Critical Ecorhetoric: Theoretical Explorations of Critical and Ecocentric Thought

Dylan P. Wolfe, University of Georgia

Ambivalency and Hybridity in Environmental Discourse

Tracy Marafiote, University of Utah Emily Plec, Western Oregon University

The Idea of Rhetoric in the Field of Environmental Communication: Reflecting on "Ways of Knowing" in Our Own Field

Pete Bsumek, James Madison University

Case Analyses in Environmental Rhetoric

"Now our Million-Dollar View is Gone": Rhetorical Presentation of the Wildland-Urban Interface During the 2000 Montana Bitterroot Fires

Dayle C. Hardy-Short, Northern Arizona University
C. Brant Short, Northern Arizona University

I, Me, Mine: On the Rhetoric of Water Wars in the Pacific Northwest

Mark P. Moore, Oregon State University

Problems and Prospects for Articulating a Vision in Dam Removal Rhetoric

Alan Razee, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The "Interesting" as Argument: Come and Explore Rocky Mountain National Park

Bruce J. Weaver, Albion College

Beware of the Storybook Wolves: Rhetorical Construction of the Wolf in Children's Literature

C. Brant Short, Northern Arizona University
Dayle C. Hardy-Short, Northern Arizona University

Children and Bugs Will Always Win: Representations of Insects in Children's Literature and Public Policy

Monica Madaus, Indiana University

Consumer Culture Issues

Environmental Responses to the SUV: Looking Awry at Discourses that Resist Spectacular Consumption

Sarah E. Dempsey, University of Colorado

The Logic of Colonization as a Way of Knowing in the "What Would Jesus Drive?" Anti-SUV Campaign

Judith Hendry, University of New Mexico
Janet Cramer, University of New Mexico

Suitable to Serve: Salad as a Mode of Environmental Discourse

Jean Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley

Learning, Knowing, and Deciding About Food: The Case of the Center for Science in the Public Interest

Michael S. Bruner, Humboldt State University

Sense of Place, Passions, and Place-Based Discourse

Perceptual Differences at the Urban Fringe: A Thematic Analysis of Sprawl and the Sense of Self-in-Place Construct

James G. Cantrill, Northern Michigan University Jessica L. Durfee, University of Utah

Implications of Passionate Attachments in Environmental Conflict: A Case Study of (In)Dependent Public Lands Ranchers

Rebecca J. Franks, University of Utah

Ways of Knowing Asbestos: The Story of Libby, Montana

Steve Schwarze, University of Montana

Articulating Contradictory World Views in Environmental Conflict: Would It Help?

Teri Martin, University of Utah

Notes Toward a Reading of the Gerbode Valley

Kathleen McGill

Mediated Discourse

Constructing the Indian in Mediated Discourse of Scientific and Cultural Rationality

Cynthia-Lou Coleman, Portland State University

The Framing of Radical Environmental Rhetoric: Television News Coverage of the Earth Liberation Front

Terence Check, St. John's University (MN)

Knowing Nature Through the Media: An Examination of Mainstream Print and Television Representations of the Non-human World

Mark Meisner, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Appendices

Appendix 1 - The 2003 Conference on Communication and the Environment Program

Appendix 2 - The 2003 Conference on Communication and the Environment Paper Call