Earthtalk: Communication Empowerment for Environmental Action

By Star A. Muir

Book Overview

This collection of essays examines the variety of ways in which communication scholarship and research contribute to the political mobilization and empowerment of citizens to act on environmental issues--environmental discourse and action in the largest sense. As seen here, the task of environmental empowerment involves a curious mixture of national and local politics, abstract principles and concrete actions, ethical frameworks and political expediency. The contributors to this volume provide a fascinating array of perspectives on how to go about this task and how earthtalk continues to shape and frame human perceptions and actions on environmental issues. This unique work will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and students of political communication, public policy, and the environment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027595370X
• ISBN13: 9780275953706
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Earthtalk- a critical examination of environmentalism.

While its appeal to the general body of the population may be limited, those with a specific interest in the topic- students, environmentalists, etc.- will find Earthtalk a vital resource. The pressing concerns of environmental crises, while increasingly gaining media attention, tend to be "stealth" crises- slowly compounding, but equally destructive, harms too often superseded by the daily events of global politics. Earthtalk's scholarly, insightful essays provide the student of environmentalist philosophy with an excellent grounding on the topic- while the former reviewer, above, may critique its lack of popular appeal, it bears a pressing and a profound appeal to the student, the activist or, like myself, the genuinely interested novice.