About the Environmental Communication Division

The Environmental Communication Division (ECD) is an official unit of the National Communication Association. This is the web site for the Environmental Communication Division.

The Environmental Communication Division is a multidisciplinary effort to support a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners in the sharing and building of theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. We believe all communication involves an environmental dimension, because symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted. Humans are one part of the broader ecosystems and cultures we inhabit, both shaping and shaped by our corporeal, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical alienation from and proximity to those spaces and communities. To explore these rich and significant connections, we encourage both qualitative and quantitative scholarship and pedagogy that showcases and advances our understanding of the production, reception, contexts, or processes of human communication regarding environmental issues. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: environmental participatory processes, environmental representations and discourses circulated through media, rhetorical analyses of environmental controversies and advocacy in public culture, cultural studies approaches to popular "green" or "eco-" practices, historical case studies of environmental events, organizational analyses of environmental and anti-environmental institutions, interpersonal/relational dimensions shaping human and non-human relations, risk communication about environmental decision-making, and psychological/cognitive research regarding environmental attitudes and behaviors.

Here you will find the following ECD information:

• Conferences: programs from some of the ECD conferences.
• Bylaws: ECD bylaws, including amendments.
• Newsletter: current and some back issues of Ecologue, the newsletter of the ECD and COCE

Environmental Communication Division Officers, 2008-2009

• Immediate Past President: Stacey Sowards, University of Texas at El Paso, ssowards@utep.edu
• President: Jonny Gray, Southern Illinois University, jmgray@siu.edu
• Vice President: Bill Kinsella, North Carolina State University, wjkinsel@ncsu.edu
• Vice President-Elect: Todd Norton, Washington State University, tmnorton@wsu.edu
• Secretary: Caitlin Wills Toker, Gainsville State College, cwtoker@gsc.edu

Additional downloads

• 2008 ECD Meeting Minutes
• 2007 ECD Meeting Minutes
• 2006 ECD Meeting Minutes
• 2005 ECD Meeting Minutes
• 2004 ECD Meeting Minutes
• Sue Senecah's 1996 Appeal to Establish The Environmental Communication Commission (the precursor to the ECD)