Overview

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.

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Author:   Tarla Peterson (Texas Universtiy, USA) ,  Hanna Bergeå (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) ,  Andrea Feldpausch-Parker (State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA) ,  Kaisa Raitio (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781138913868

ISBN 10:   1138913863
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   04 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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Tarla Rai Peterson is a professor in the Department of Communication and Coordinator of RARE Mozambique at the University of Texas, El Paso, USA. Hanna Ljunggren Bergeå is a researcher at the Division of Environmental Communication, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), USA. Kaisa Raitio is an associate professor at the Division of Environmental Communication, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

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