Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere

By Phaedra C Pezzullo and Robert Cox

Book Overview

The Seventh Edition of the award-winning Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the best-selling comprehensive introduction in the field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive, transform, and attempt to heal relations with everything we consider to be "the environment" - from microscopic chemicals in cosmetics to the climate we breathe. Authors Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Robert Cox examine how we define what constitutes an environmental problem and how we decide what actions to take concerning the natural world. The updated and revised Seventh Edition explores recent events and research that have emerged since the last edition, including: the latest on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on journalism, climate commitments of Big Tech, global climate justice course cases, mutual aid networking, ultra-processed food policy, anti-plastics advocacy, expanding legal rights of nonhuman animals, and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1071922394
• ISBN13: 9781071922392
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.