Overview

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work—which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication—this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action. SUNY Press has collaborated with Knowledge Unlatched to unlock KU Focus Collection titles. The Knowledge Unlatched titles have been made open access through libraries coming together to crowd fund the publication cost. Each monograph has been released as open access making the eBook freely available to readers worldwide. Discover more about the Knowledge Unlatched program here: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8482 .

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Author:   Sean D. Williams
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438491295

ISBN 10:   1438491298
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   01 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Sean D. Williams 1. When the Sound Is Frozen: Extracting Climate Data from Inuit Narratives Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq 2. Boundary Waters: Deliberative Experience Design for Environmental Decision Making Daniel Card 3. In Defense of a Greenspace: Students Discover Agency in the Practice of Community-Engaged Technical Communication Bob Hyland 4. Flood Insurance Rate Maps as Communicative Sites of Pragmatic Environmental Action Daniel P. Richards 5. Collaborating for Clean Air: Virtue Ethics and the Cultivation of Transformational Service-Learning Partnerships Lauren E. Cagle and Roberta Burnes 6. The Narrative of Silent Stakeholders: Reframing Local Environmental Communications to Include Global Human Impacts Beth Shirley 7. Resilient Farmland: The Role of Technical Communicators Sara B. Parks and Lee S. Tesdell 8. Writing for Clients, Writing for Change: Proposals, Persuasion, and Problem Solving in the Technical Writing Classroom Monika A. Smith 9. Health in the Shale Fields: Technical Communication and Environmental Health Risks Barbara George 10. Participatory Policy: Enacting Technical Communication for a Shared Water Future Josephine Walwema 11. Rhino Crash: Teaching Science, Medical, and Environmental Writing for Social Action Michelle Hall Kells Epilogue: Right Relation with the Whole World: Creating a Richer Polyvocality for Environmental Technical Communication Caroline Gottschalk Druschke Contributors Index

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The strength of Technical Communication for Environmental Action resides in the diversity of approaches represented by the array of contributors. Its timely publication contributes to the scholarship on pressing environmental issues. - Lisa L. Phillips, Texas Tech University

"""The strength of Technical Communication for Environmental Action resides in the diversity of approaches represented by the array of contributors. Its timely publication contributes to the scholarship on pressing environmental issues."" — Lisa L. Phillips, Texas Tech University"

Author Information

Sean D. Williams is Professor of Technical Communication and Information Design at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the coauthor of Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook.

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