Contents of the 2007 Conference on Communication and Environment Proceedings

Communication at the Intersection of Nature and Culture: Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment

Barb Willard and Chris Green, editors

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Conference Program

Preface and Acknowledgements

Twenty-Five Years After the Die is Cast: Mediating the Locus of the Irreparable

From Awareness to Action: The Rhetorical Limits of Visualizing the Irreparable Nature of Global Climate Change

Richard D. Besel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Love, Guilt and Reparation: Rethinking the Affective Dimensions of the Locus of the Irreparable

Renee Lertzman, Cardiff University, UK

Producing, Marketing, Consuming & Becoming Meat: Discourse of the Meat at the Intersections of Nature and Culture

Burgers, Breasts, and Hummers: Meat and Masculinity in Contemporary Television Advertisements

Richard A. Rogers, Northern Arizona University

The Trinity of Voice: Environmental Melodrama and Environmental Conflict

Public Participation in Environmental Planning and Decision Making by Trial Governments: A Case Study of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Paige Schmidt, Texas A&M University

Piping Plover and People in One Place: A Case Study Evaluation Public Involvement at Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Lavell Merritt, Texas A&M University

International Conservation Organizations vs. Indigenous & Traditional People: Conflict in Including Indigenous & Traditional Peoples in Conservation

Laura Weber, Texas A&M University

Media Framing of Environmental Issues: Hurricanes, Ecoterrorism and Woody Harrelson

Sound Bytes and Celebrity Expertise in Contemporary Environmental Activism

Dylan Wolfe, Clemson University

Win, Lose or Draw: Media Framing of Conservation Easements

Jody M. Minion, Texas A&M University

The Whirling Media Coverage of Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts: A Closer Look at Media Framing of Scientific Uncertainty and Preparedness

Gina Eosco, Cornell University

The Impact of Religion, Media and Science on the Preparation of Environmental Issues in the U.S.

Ellen Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Communication the Environmental Crisis of Nature and Culture

Crisis Redux: September 11 and the Asbestos Hazard

Steve Schwarze, University of Montana

Strategies for Constructing the Environment through Public Participation

Opening and Shutting the Door: Technology Amplifies the Public's Voice Surrounding a Superfund Site's Final Days of Production

Ann D. Jabro, Robert Morris University

Carrying Forward the Voice of the Public: The CDC's Public Involvement Effort on Community Control Measure for Pandemic Influenza

Caitlin Wills-Toker, Gainesville College and Jennifer Duffield-Hamilton, Center for Health and Environmental Studies

The "Composters" Performance

     Alison Aurelia Fisher & Janet Donoghue, Southern Illinois University

Rural Life Between Nature and Culture

A Sociable Movement: Nature and Culture, City and Country, Producers and Consumers Together at Farmers' Markets

Jean P. Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley

The Nature/Culture Dualism: Communication Strategies at the Intersections of Nature and Culture

Putting the Human Animal at Ease with Itself: Deconstructing the False Human/Animal Dichotomy

Carrie Packwood Freeman, University of Oregon

Natural Manipulation: Orogenesis and Erosion in Digital Landscape and 'Redemption of Physical Reality'

Leigh A. Bernacci, University of Utah

Spoiled and Spoiling Spaces: Communicative Strategies in Response to Perceived Real Environmental Crisis

Signs, Symbols and Communication: Reaching Mutuality at a Chemical Manufacturing Site

Ann D. Jabro, Robert Morris University

Victims 'In' and Protectors 'of' Appalachia: A Frame Analysis of Mixing Mountains: 'We Went to the Mountaintop, but it Wasn't There'

Joshua Ewalt and James Cantrill, Northern Michigan University

Establishing Dialogic Spaces Between Local and Scientific Knowledge: Evaluating Metal Contamination in the Sao Francisco River, Brazil

Erida Ferreira, Araujo Silva, Antonio Aparecido Mozeto, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo-Brazil & Joachim Carolsfeld, World Fisheries Trust

Ways of Living, Ways of Speaking: International Case Studies in Environmental Communication

From Pointing and Naming to Speaking for Whales: A Study of Communicative Acts as They Inform Human-Nature Relations

Tema Oliveira Milstein, University of Washington

The Other Power: Ecotourism Discourse and its Ability to Shape the Western Image

Kerry Grimm, Oregon State University

Communicating About Climate Change: Risk, Conflict and Perception

Perceptions of Climate Change Risks and Migration Behaviors: Understanding Inconsistencies Between Representations and Action

Alexandra Lazaro, Rosa Cabecinhas & Anabela Carvalho, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade do Minho

The Global Climate Change Issue: An Issue of Legitimacy in the Media

Andrea Feldpausch, Texas A&M

The Embodiment of Risk: Case Studies in Environmental Communication & Material Rhetoric

Constructing the Innocent Body: An Analysis of Appeals in the Body Burden in Newborns Report

Maggie VanNorman, University of Minnesota

Vulnerable Bodies, Burdens of Proof: The Anti-Nuclear Activism of Mothers for Peace

Marilyn Bordwell DeLaure, University of San Francisco

Environmental Politics & Policy: Entering the Fray

The Green Party in Presidential Election 2008: A Preliminary Case Study of Rhetorical Situation at the Start of a Campaign Season

David Tschida, St. Cloud State University

Public Participation Through Public Science: Scientific Argument in the Yucca Mountain Controversy

Danielle Endres, University of Utah

Public Participation and Decision Making: Rituals, Conflict and Interpretations of Environmental Issues

Stakeholder Dynamics at the Intersection of Property and Fire: Conflict, Cohesion and Communicative Practices

Travis Paveglio, Todd Norton, Washington State University

An Interpretive Analysis of Core Values of Agriculturalists of the Yellowstone River

Christi Choat Horton, Damon Hall, Texas A&M University; Susan Gilbertz, Montana State University - Billings

Communicating Biodiversity in Swedish Park Management Organizations

Petra Bengtsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Green Commerce: Negotiating Capitalism and Environmentalism in the U.S.

Advertising in Time Magazine During Oil Price Spikes: An Analysis of Print Ads in 1979-1980 and 2004-2005

Rich Grogan, Michigan State University

Ambivalent Naturism: Prejudice and the Treatment of Nature Inside and Outside the Mall

Christopher N. Gamble, The Pennsylvania State University

Bridging Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism Discursively and Materially: Ecopreneurship as (Gendered) Sustainable Development

Rebecca Gill, University of Utah