Environmental Communication Division Awards

In 2005, the Environmental Communication Division established the Christine L. Oravec Award in Environmental Communication to recognize the top scholarship in the field. The nomination and selection process is described in Article 7, Section 5 of the ECD Bylaws. Since 2006, the award is presented annually at the National Communication Association's Environmental Communication Division's annual meeting.

Christine Oravec

2008 Oravec Award

Book: Bryan C. Taylor, William J. Kinsella, Stephen P. Depoe, Maribeth S. Metzler (eds.).  (2008). Nuclear legacies:  Communication, controversy, and the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Article or Chapter: Chris Russill.  (2008). "Tipping point forewarning of climate change:  Some implications of an emerging trend." Environmental Communication 2, 133-153.

2007 Oravec Award

Book: Phaedra C. Pezzullo  (2007). Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press.

Article or Chapter: Steven Schwarze, "Environmental Melodrama," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 92 (August 2006): 239-261.

2006 Oravec Award

Robert Cox

The first Oravec Award Winner for a book went to: J. Robert Cox, (2006, January) Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere. Sage. ISBN: 0761930507

Bryan Taylor

The first Oravec Award Winner for a chapter or article: Bryan C. Taylor, William J. Kinsella, Stephen P. Depoe, and Maribeth S. Metzler, "Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Complex." In P. Kalbfleisch (Ed.) Communication Yearbook 29 (pp 363-409). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.

William Kinsella