Environmental Communication Division Panels
National Communication Association Conference
Chicago, November 15-18, 2007

International Environmental Activism: Emerging Communication Tactics

1. Environmental Communication and the Millennium Development Goals: A Systems Perspective, by Gregg B. Walker, Oregon State University
2. Collective Internet Activism of China's Environmental NGOs and the Rise of Civil Society, by Jingfang Liu, University of Southern California
3. Assembling Audiences: From Shifting Personae to an Ideology of Relations in Wangari Maathai's Nobel Lecture, by Lisa Slawter Volkening, University of Georgia
4. Finding Connections: Report on the Preliminary Investigation of Community Capacity for Environmental Protection in Soweto, South Africa, by Andrew F. Pleasant, Rutgers University

Media Framing of the Environment: Multiple Perspectives on Environmental Organizations and Issues

1. Animals as Media: Speaking Through Nonhuman Beings, by Tony E. Adams, University of South Florida
2. A Light Bulb Moment? Constructing Environmentalism through Catastrophe, Ego, Entertainment, and Consumption in Oprah Winfrey's Global Warming 101, by Elizabeth A. Dickinson, University of New Mexico
3. Framing the ELF: An Exploration of Media Representation and Self-Representation of a Social Movement Organization, by Ana Haase-Reed, Matthew Kushin, Washington State University, Teresa Koeppel

Environmental Discourses: The Intersection of Language and Social Interaction and Environmental Communication

1. What Can LSI Contribute Environmental Communication and How Can This Research Help the Environment? by Michelle Scollo, Rutgers University
2. Considering the Interview in Conducting Environmental Research: Co-Constructing Different Narratives of Place, by Trudy A. Milburn, California State University, Channel Islands, Susan Gilbertz, Geography, Montana State University, Billings
3. The Land that Never Melts is Melting: Auyuittuq National Park and Talk about Global Warming Among Some Inuit, by Eric L. Morgan, New Mexico State University
4. Quoting the Environment, by Donal A. Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
5. Environmental Discourse: Sticks and Stones are Like My Bones, and Words May Hurt or Help Me, by Tema Milstein, University of New Mexico
6. Understanding Theories of Communication Design in Policy Decision-Making, by Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University

Ecotourism in Costa Rica: A Rhetorical Examination of Definitions, Cultural Perspectives, and Experiences

1. Haciendo Caras on the Borderlands: Making Faces in Costa Rica's Ecotourism Industry, by Jeannette Monsiváis Ruiter
2. Costa Rica: A Triangle of Trust, by Mitzel Aveytia, University of Texas at El Paso
3. Pure Life: Ideological Dilemmas in the Tican Ecotourism Experience, by Patricia A. Smith, University of Texas at El Paso
4. Rhetoric of Expectation and Experience: International Perspectives on Ecotourism and Communication, by Stacey K. Sowards, University of Texas at El Paso
5. But Don't you Speak Spanish Already? Identity, Language, and the Environment, by Richard D. Pineda, University of Texas at El Paso

Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide: Symbolic Understandings of the Environment

1. The Beast in Me: Ernst Cassirer and Kenneth Burke on the Continuities of Human and Animal Consciousness, by Zachary J. Walton, Southern Illinois University
2. "Caring for Creation" and Overcoming the Domination of Nature: An Analysis of a Mainline Protestant Social Statement on the Environment, by Christian Fredrick Casper, North Carolina State University
3. Communicating Place: Yellowstone River life in Paradise Valley Montana, by Damon Hall, Texas A&M University, Susan Gilbertz, Geography, Montana State University, Billings, Cristi Horton
4. Sustainable Ecotourism in Mexico: An Examination of Law, Policy, Development, and Impact, by Gerald-Mark Breen, University of Central Florida, Victor Cipriano, Hawaii Pacific University

Top Papers in Environmental Communication

1. Global Warming Goes to Washington: The Case of Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, by David Tschida, St. Cloud State University
2. Touring Africa: Eco-Cultural Representations in National Geographic, by Anne Marie Todd, San José State University
3. Toward Understanding Praxis: Exploring Tensions Movement Actors Face, by Rebekah Fox, Purdue University, Joshua J. Frye, Purdue University

Environmental Communication Division: Business Meeting

The following two panels are back-to-back to encourage greater attendance for both panels regarding environmental practices in pedagogy and in NCA.

The Sustainable Classroom: Teaching Strategies for the Ethical Use of the Planet's Resources

Greening NCA: A Roundtable Discussion on Shrinking the Ecological Footprint of the NCA Annual Convention

Structural and Interactional Influences on Environmental Communication in Small Groups: A Roundtable Discussion

Panelists:
James G. Cantrill, Northern Michigan University
Jennifer Hamilton, University of Cincinnati
Ann D. Jabro, Robert Morris University
Susan L. Senecah, SUNY, Environmental Sciences & Forestry
Jessica L. Thompson, University of Utah
Caitlin Wills Toker, Gainesville State College
A typical venue for stakeholder input into public- and private-sector environmental management involves small group contexts wherein the tryst between worldviews and values is more dialogic in nature than what is encountered in many other environmental communication arenas. This roundtable discussion draws upon the experience of consultants and researchers to explore applications of small group theory to case studies of such small-scale stakeholder interactions. These brief analyses will serve as springboards for audience participation.

Communicating Environmental World Views: International Perspectives

1. 'The $1 Billion Kyoto Botch Up': New Zealand Media Coverage of Climate Change, by Chris Russill, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2. China's Economic Nationalism and its Impacts on Environmental Communication, by Bei Cai, Kent State University - Canton
3. Protection or Appropriation? Colonial Legacies and Conservation Efforts Face-Off in the Caribbean, by Melba Leonor Velez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. Image and Ice: The Rhetoric of International Environmental Activism on Oil Drilling in the Arctic Circle, by Terence P. Check, St. John's University