Environmental Communication and Community: Constructive and Destructive Dynamics of Social Transformation

ISBN-13: 9781138913868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 284 str.

Tarla Rai Peterson; Hanna Bergea; Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker

Opis

As society has become increasingly aware of environmental issues, the challenge of structuring public participation opportunities that strengthen democracy, while promoting more sustainable communities has become crucial for many natural resource agencies, industries, interest groups and publics. The processes of negotiating between the often disparate values held by these diverse groups, and formulating and implementing policies that enable people to fulfil goals associated with these values, can strengthen communities as well as tear them apart.

This book provides a critical examination of the role communication plays in social transition, through both construction and destruction of community. The authors examine the processes and practices put in play when people who may or may not have previously seen themselves as interconnected, communicate with each other, often in situations where they are competing for the same resources. Drawing upon a diverse selection of case-studies on the American, Asian and European continents, the chapters chart a range of approaches to environmental communication, including symbolic construction, modes of organising and agonistic politics of communication.

This volume will be of great interest to researchers, teachers, and practitioners of environmental communication, environmental conflict, community development and natural resource management.

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction and conceptual framing for community constructivity and deconstructivity  1. Introduction  2. Reframing Conflict in Natural Resource Management: Mutuality, Reciprocity, and Pluralistic Agonism as Dynamics of Community Constructivity and Destructivity  Part 2 Constructing and deconstructing community  3. Process Literacy: Theory and practice for multi-cultural community-based deliberative democracy  4. Performances of an International Professional Community: CCS/CCUS and its National Contexts  5. How Reductive Scientific Narratives Limit Possibilities for Community Participation in Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study in Texas, USA    6. Community Conversations on Conservation: A Case Study of Joint Forest Management in East Sikkim, India  7. Wildlife Conservation as Public Good: The Public Trust Doctrine and the North American Model of Wildlife Management  8. Dialogue for Nature Conservation: Attempting to Construct an Inclusive Environmental Policy Community in Sweden  9. Deconstructing Public Space to Construct Community: Guerilla Gardening as Place-based Democracy  10. Emotions in Communicative Practice: Legitimation and De-legitimation in Environmental Conflicts in the Netherlands and Sweden  11. Community Construction through Culturally Rooted Celebration: Turtles all the Way Down  12. Seized and Missed Opportunities in Responding to Community Conflicts: Constructivity and Destructivity in Forest Conflict Management in Finland and British Columbia  13. Divergent meanings of participation: Ethnographies of communication in water governance in California and Colorado  Part 3 Conclusion and summary  14. Conclusion