Introducing Environmental Communication

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-57283-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 724 g

Introducing Environmental Communication offers a critical and interdisciplinary introduction to the field, designed primarily for undergraduate students in both specialist and general courses, as well as for postgraduate and professional learners. Its modular structure allows chapters to be used independently across a wide range of teaching, training, and coaching contexts. The book addresses underrepresented themes, including intercultural communication, postcolonial studies and social psychology, while combining theory with real-world application through staggered tasks, discussion prompts, case studies, and projects. Each chapter is supported by up-to-date examples and structured to guide learners from foundational concepts to more complex analysis. Adopting a critical lens, power and justice inequalities are highlighted and perspectives from the Global South are amplified, conveying both the urgency and complexity of the field. Short videos with accompanying discussion points are available online, enhancing the book's multimedia resources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rings, Guido

Rasinger, Sebastian M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Wasseem Emam; Foreword Claudia Escorza; Preface; Part I. Introducing Environmental Communication: 1. Constructing the environment; 2. What is environmental communication?; 3. Rethinking environmental competence; Part II. Theories, Key Concepts and Approaches: 4. Environmental communication approaches; 5. Econarratology; 6. Imagological perspectives in literature and film; 7. Environmental economics; 8. Sociological approaches; 9. Environmental governance; 10. Psychological perspectives; Part III. Application: 11. Social movements campaigns for sustainability and climate justice; 12. Key aims and methods in environmental education; 13. Challenges and success stories in environmental journalism; 14. Environmental communication in the digital sphere and the role of AI; 15. Reflections on the future of environmental communication; Glossary; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Rasinger, Sebastian M.
Sebastian M. Rasinger is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University. His research focuses on language and identity, with a particular emphasis on multilingual and migration contexts. In 2023, he co-authored The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication (Cambridge) with Guido Rings. His earlier work, Quantitative Methods in Linguistics: In Introduction, was published in two editions (2008 and 2013) and translated into Spanish by Ediciones Akal. Sebastian is also deeply committed to promoting equality and diversity in Higher Education. In 2022, he served as Vice Chair of the QAA Advisory Group for Linguistics, overseeing how the review of subject benchmark statements for UK Higher Education.

Rings, Guido
Guido Rings is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Studies at Anglia Ruskin University and co-founder of iMex and German as a Foreign Language, the first internet journals in Europe for their respective fields. He has widely taught and published at the borders of intercultural, postcolonial and environmental studies. As editor, he co-published the acclaimed Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication (with S. M. Rasinger, Cambridge, 2020). As author, his works include The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema (2016) and La Conquista desbaratada (The Conquest upside down, 2010), alongside more than fifty distinguished peer-reviewed articles.