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172. The effects of environmental brand attributes and nature imagery in green advertising
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schmuck, Desirée (author), Matthes, Jörg (author), Naderer, Brigitte (author), and Beaufort, Maren (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05-05
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09805
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(3) : 414-429
173. Protecting sacred-groves: community-led environmental organizing by santhals of eastern India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dutta, Uttaran (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-01
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10644
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Notes:
- 17 pages., via online journal., In the face of widespread degradation of natural resources (including deforestation), and socio-economic disparities, underserved populations from rural and indigenous spaces of the global south face challenges to conserve environmental resources. Many of these spaces, such as sacred-groves, are important to indigenous people and are deeply intertwined with their identity, worldviews and existence. This research, embracing principles of critical/cultural environmental communication, examines how indigenous people of eastern India mobilized collectively to protect their sacred environmental resources, thus improving community members’ well-being. Paying attention to engaged environmental action; critical listening and dialoguing; and local-centric participation, this research argues that contextually meaningful and community-led environmental initiatives help motivate and raise consciousness among future generations as well as among wider indigenous (and marginalized) populations.
174. Moving society to a sustainable future: the framing of sustainability in a constructive media outlet
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Atanasova, Dimitrinka (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-01
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10649
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(5): 700-711
- Notes:
- 13 pages., via online journal., News reporting on sustainability has been criticized for (1) having a limited coverage of solutions, (2) reporting on solutions with a negative bias, (3) being dominated by sources from government and mainstream business, and (4) promoting frames that prioritize the role of the market and techno-scientific solutions, which leave unchallenged the unsustainable behavior of consumer societies and the focus on economic growth. This study was the first to examine how sustainability is reported in a constructive media outlet and found that articles (1) consistently elaborated solutions, (2) described them in optimistic ways, (3) quoted various sources, and (4) developed a frame that challenged consumerism and critiqued society’s preoccupation with growth while helping to imagine a desirable sustainable future. It is thus argued that this novel, constructive approach to journalism can help move society to a sustainable future by expanding the repertoire of culturally-resonant stories to live by.
175. It is always dry here: examining perceptions about drought and climate change in the southern high plains
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Colston, Nicole M. (author), Vadjunec, Jacqueline M. (author), and Fagin, Todd (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10676
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Notes:
- 18 pages., via online journal., Drought is defined, experienced, and communicated about in multiple ways. This case study examines individual definitions of drought (timing, impacts, and severity) and attitudes about climate change. Household surveys (n = 120) were conducted in Cimarron County, Oklahoma and Union County, New Mexico using a stratified random sampling method to select farmers, ranchers, and town residents. Information about drought is primarily communicated between neighbors, friends, and family, as well as media and local governing agencies. Residents perceive the recent drought to be the worst drought on record, regardless of previous drought experiences. Residents reported widespread drought-related impacts on agriculture, environment, and society. Most residents see drought as cyclical and driven by natural causes, rather than human causes. We recommend adaptive drought communication engage more fully with identity, place, and history. Climate information should be presented in a relevant manner to diverse agricultural stakeholders with differing attitudes about climate change, management, and climate information.
176. Climate services and communication for development: the role of early career researchers in advancing the debate
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Donkor, Felix Kwabena (author), Howarth, Candice (author), Ebhuoma, Eromose (author), Daly, Meaghan (author), Vaughan, Catherine (author), Pretorius, Lulu (author), Mambo, Julia (author), MacLeod, Dave (author), Kythreotis, Andrew (author), Jones, Lindsey (author), Grainger, Sam (author), Golding, Nicola (author), and Anderson, Julio Araujo (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10677
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(5): 561-566
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., Climate services entail providing timely and tailored climate information to end-users in order to facilitate and improve decision-making processes. Climate services are instrumental in socio-economic development and benefit substantially from interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly when including Early Career Researchers (ECRs). This commentary critically discusses deliberations from an interdisciplinary workshop involving ECRs from the United Kingdom and South Africa in 2017, to discuss issues in climate adaptation and climate services development in water resources, food security and agriculture. Outcomes from the discussions revolved around key issues somewhat marginalized within the broader climate service discourse. This commentary discusses what constitutes “effective” communication, framings (user framings, mental models, narratives, co-production) and ethical dimensions in developing climate services that can best serve end-users. It also reflects on how ECRs can help tackle these important thematic areas and advance the discourse on climate services.
177. Common values and themes for grazed open spaces: “plant diversity” and “watershed” as communication intersections for agriculture and conservation groups?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Scasta, John Derek (author), Welter, Kelsey J. (author), and Friday, Colleen (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-01
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10679
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., Communicating about the use and management of open spaces occurs within a complex social environment replete with diverse stakeholder opinions and meta-narratives. For western US rangelands, productionbased enterprises have been the traditional use but increasingly they are valued for ecosystem services such as water, recreation, biodiversity, and aesthetics which have led to additional conflict. We surveyed Wyoming-based members of six agricultural (Ag) and four environmental/conservation (Env/Con) groups to determine grazingcentric mutual exclusivity of special interests, common values, and emergent themes. We assessed 197 survey participants; 150 from Ag groups and 47 from Env/Con groups. Of 10 values assessed, “watershed” and “plant diversity” were similarly valued by both group types. These naturally dichotomous groups also agreed that communication and reliance on science are needed. Communication and conflict resolution about the use of open spaces can benefit from addressing social presuppositions and meta-narratives of broader audiences to facilitate effective dialogue and solutions.
178. Energy communication: theory and praxis towards a sustainable energy future
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cozen, Brian (author), Endres, Danielle (author), Rai Peterson, Tarla (author), Horton, Cristi (author), and Barnett, Joshua Trey (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-01
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10694
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(3): 289-294
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, and consumption. We then offer three generative directions for future research related to energy transitions as communicative processes: analysing campaigns’ strategic efforts, critically theorizing energy’s transnational power dynamics, and theorizing the energy democracy movement.
179. Examining the impact of expert voices: communicating the scientific consensus on genetically-modified organisms
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Landrum, Asheley R. (author), Hallman, William K. (author), and Jamieson, Kathleen Hall (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10695
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(1): 51-70
- Notes:
- 21 pages., via online journal., Scholars are divided over whether communicating to the public the existence of scientific consensus on an issue influences public acceptance of the conclusions represented by that consensus. Here, we examine the influence of four messages on perception and acceptance of the scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs): two messages supporting the idea that there is a consensus that GMOs are safe for human consumption and two questioning that such a consensus exists. We found that although participants concluded that the pro-consensus messages made stronger arguments and were likely to be more representative of the scientific community’s attitudes, those messages did not abate participants’ concern about GMOs. In fact, people’s premanipulation attitudes toward GMOs were the strongest predictor of of our outcome variables (i.e. perceived argument strength, post-message GMO concern, perception of what percent of scientists agree). Thus, the results of this study do not support the hypothesis that consensus messaging changes the public’s hearts and minds, and provide more support, instead, for the strong role of motivated reasoning.
180. “Organic is more of an American term... we are traditional farmers”: discourses of place-based organic farming, community, heritage, and sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hoffmann, Jeffrey Alan (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: D10729
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(6): 807-824
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., The following study looks at how traditional, organic, cooperative farmers starting a new farming cooperative in the US Southwest communicate about their farming as a set of (sustainable) cultural practices. The study draws on environmental communication theory, the theory of the coordinated management of meaning, and Vandana Shiva’s three-tiered economic model to construct a communication-based framework through which to view farmers’ stories about sustainability. This framework is productive, showing how some Nuevo Mexicano farmers (and others) orient toward farming, sustenance, and human-nature relationships through community, family, heritage, and education. Moreover, in addition to a conceptualization of sustainability as specific practices for nurturing and enduring in environments, communities, and organizations/institutions, sustainability can be understood as embedded ecocultural and historical experience with cross-cultural parallels in land-based communities. This study advances the ethical duty of environmental communication to better understand the ways in which environmental discourse and ecocultural and material realities are imbricated, as well as the call for such discursive study to be grounded in phenomenological experience of the natural world.