Over at the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), we have finally completed work on Communication for the Commons: Revisiting Participation and Environment. It’s an anthology that pulls together selected papers and posters from the 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment. The conference took place in Uppsala, Sweden, June 6-11, 2013.

The book is edited by myself, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Stephen P. Depoe of the University of Cincinnati.Here is the table of contents:

PAPERS

• Post Rio Communication Styles for Deliberation – between individualization and collective action by Pernille Almlund, Jesper Holm
• A Voice in the Wilderness: Cultural Barriers to Land Use Planning as Deliberative Democracy by Matthew Hoffman
• Participation, learning and sustainable fisheries: the case of co-management at lake Vättern, Sweden by Cecilia Lundholm, Christian Stöhr, Beatrice Crona
• Joint Forest Management in India: A Case Study of East Sikkim, India by Paulami Banerjee
• Water Policy by Public Design on the Texas Coast by Chara J. Ragland
• Process Literacy Across Shifting Rhetorical Frameworks in Internal Coalition Maintenance by Deborah Cox Callister
• The Value of Environment in the Controversy Over Antibacterial Silver: A Swedish Case Study by Max Boholm, Rickard Arvidsson
• Biosphere Reserves, a Matter of Communication Processes, Developing Models for Sustainability: Environmental Communication Processes with Different
• Expressions that Either Formulate Opportunities or Form Possibilities by Kristina Börebäck
• Developing an Ecotourism Foundation in Indonesian National Parks by Adriana Salas
• A Comparative Study Evaluating Conservation Education in Indonesian Provinces: Hinduism in Bali versus Islam in East Kalimantan by Bianca Ramirez
• Supporting Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation Through Systemic Praxis by Chris Blackmore, Ray Ison, Kevin Collins
• The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: Can It Move Beyond Just Hunting? by Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker, Israel D. Parker
• ImagineNATIVE 2012: Film Festival Eco-imaginations and Practices by Salma Monani, Miranda Brady
• A Contradictory Approach to the Right of Public Access: Exploring Relational Factors in the Case of Agritourism by Elvira Caselunghe, Hanna Ljunggren Bergeå
• Struggles for Water in Colombia: Communication and the Participation of Citizens by Valeria Llano-Arias
• Flows, Locomotion, and the Wild West: Mobile Participation through North Dakota’s Oil Boom by Brian Cozen
• Hydrofracking in the News: How Media Coverage of Hydraulic Fracturing Shapes Public Discourse About Emerging Energy Technologies in the U.S. by Katelind M. Batill, Andrea Feldpausch-Parker
• Re-imaging the Commons as “the Green Economy” by Joanna Boehnert
• Can Stakeholders Hold the Commons? English as the Global Language of Capitalism and that of Sustainability: Contradictions and Potentials by M. Cristina Caimotto
• Revisiting Participation: Who Matters by Chara J. Ragland, Adrienne Strubb
• Participation in Environmental Communication: Culture, Nature, and Literature by Maris Sõrmus
• Your Place, My Place, or Some Place More Exciting: Pro-Creative Possibilities for Environmental Communication Scholarship by James G. Cantrill
• Mountains and Handrails: Risk, Meaning, and Responsibility in Three National Parks by Laura N. Rickard
• Apocalyptic Framing and Conservative Action: Discourses of Climate Change Communicated in Swedish Mass Media, 2006-2009 by Jonas Anshelm, Martin Hultman
• Climate News Across Media Platforms: A Comparative Analysis of Climate Change Communication on Different News Platforms by Mikkel Fugl Eskjær
• Overcoming the Issue Attention Cycle: Four Possible Ingredients of a Successful Climate Movement by Neil Stenhouse, Susanna Priest
• Experiential Programs for Educators: A Case Study on Coastal Policy Communication in Cebu, Philippines by David W. Knight, Arren M. Allegretti
• Learning in the Beat: What Influences Environmental Journalists’ Perception of Knowledge? by Bruno Takahashi, Edson Tandoc, Jr.
• Putting the U in Carbon Capture and Storage: Performances of Rupture within the CCS Scientific Community by Danielle Endres, Brian Cozen, Megan O’Byrne, Andrea Feldpausch-Parker
• Articulating Resistance to Nuclear Power: Local Tactics and Strategic Connections in a Nuclear Construction Financing Controversy by William J. Kinsella, Ashley R. Kelly. Meagan Kittle Autry
• Proof Of Power: An Exploration Of Clashing Evidence-Based Claims In The A.N.W.R. Oil Drilling Debate by Jessica R. Moyer
• Meta-learning in the U.K. Environmental Movement: Culture Change Theories and Their Pedagogical Implications by Callum McGregor
• Social Media and Environmental Activism in China: Enacting Social Change on Wild Public Screens by Kevin Michael DeLuca, Elizabeth Brunner
• Negotiating the End of the World in Climate Change Rhetoric: Climate Skepticism, Science, and Arguments by Emma Frances Bloomfield, Randall A. Lake
• Masculinity and Making Do: Outdoor Recreation’s Risky Rhetoric by Samantha Senda-Cook
• “The Closer the Better”: Possibilities and Limitations with Frontline Management. Lessons from the Majella National Park, Italy by Serena Cinque, Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist
• Promoting Sustainable Transportation across Campus Communities using the Transtheoretical Model of Change by Norbert Mundorf, Colleen A. Redding, Tat Fu, Andrea Paiva, Leslie Brick, James O. Prochaska
• The Visual Rhetoric of Climate Change Documentaries: Aerial Shots and Interviews by Helen Hughes
  The Ghost of Dr. Mesmer or the Illusionary World of Fantastic Claims by Dominique M. Richard
• Distrust as a Tool in an Environmental Conflict by Marie-Ève Maillé, Johanne Saint-Charles
• “Blue is the New Green”: Neoliberal Logic and the Co-optation of Environmental Justice Discourses in the Pennsylvania Fracking Debate by Katherine Cruger, Michael Finewood
• Citizen-Sourcing and Reframing Environmental Discourse: An Analysis of Frances Moore Lappé’s EcoMind by Emilie O. Falc
• Eco-Jokes and Their Relation to the UnCO2nscious: Larry David’s “Curb Global Warming” Campaign and Other Environmental Comedies by Xinghua Li
• Policy Issues Dominate U.S. Environmental News: A Content Analysis of Seven U.S. Newspapers’ Coverage of Environmental Issues from 1970-2010 by Susan Grantham, Edward T. Vieira, Jr.
• Assessing the Cognitive Autonomy of Audiences Towards Environmental Media Messages by Pierre Fastrez, Coralie Meurice, Thierry De Smedt, Julie Matagne

POSTERS

• Press Coverage and Framing of Climate Change Issues in Nigeria: A Boost or Constraint for Participation Opportunities? by Herbert E. Batta, Ashong C. Ashong, Abdullahi S. Bashir
• Participatory Art Exhibitions: Public Pedagogy and Global Climate Change by Andrew Bieler
• The Green Economy: Discourse and Problem Map by Joanna Boehnert
• Nature Incorporated: the Commons in a Spreadsheet by Mark Brown
• Paradise and poverty: How Cultural Identity Supports Environmental Journalism in Jamaica and Nepal by Elizabeth Burch
• Communicating New Perspectives of the Commons Through Art by Darlene Farris-LaBar
• Blowin’ in the Wind: How Collaborative Governance Communication Can Reduce Wind Power Siting Disputes in the United States by Susan Grantham
• Credibility at Stake? “Clean, green” New Zealand in the News by Florian M. Kaefer
• The Carrot or the Stick Approach? Effective Delivery of Behavioural Changes Towards Energy Conservation and the Use of Renewable Energy in Local Communities by Josephine I. Mmojieje
• Hunting Elk on YouTube: An Ecocritical Perspective on the Nature-Human Relationship in User-Generated Media by Cecilia Mörner, Ulrika Olausson
• Media’s Role in Informing Public Opinion on Environmental Health Risk: Motivating Health Informed Policy? by Linda J. Pfeiffer, Eun Jeong Koh
• Crossing Borders: Immigration and Agriculture in the Press by Jean P. Retzinger
• Communicating Adaptation to Climate Change in Thailand: Communication Concepts for Practical Adaptation by Sukanya Sereeonchai
• Mediated participation: The Case of Belo Monte Supporters and the Movimento Gota D’Água Dialogue on the Internet by Vivian Paes Barretto Smith
• An Urban Environmental Handbook by Stinne Storm Folving
• Environmental Observatories and Citizens Participation: Virtual Public Arenas? by María Ángela Torres Kremers
• Politics, Logistics and Natural Resources: Cornerstones of the Sustainability Concept in Local Level Communication by Anne-Marie Tuomala, Heimo Tuomala