About the AuthorsAcknowledgments to the Seventh Edition IntroductionPart I * Communicating As, For, About, And with The Environment Chapter 1 * Defining Environmental Communication: On Trees, Wolves, and PlasticsCommunication as Symbolic Action: Communicating with and about TreesCommunication Matters: Reintroducing WolvesA Crisis and Care DisciplinePublic Spheres as Democratic Spaces: From Ideals to ScapegoatsPurpose: What Motivates Environmental Communication in the Public Sphere?Diverse Voices in The Public Sphere: Agents of ChangeWays of Studying Environmental CommunicationSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 2 * Cultural and Rhetorical Environmental Discourses: From Apples to ZendayaRhetorical Perspectives: On ApplesNaming: From "There''s a whale!" to Advocating "Beans for Beef"Framing: On Plant-Rich Diets, Artificial Turf, and Farmer BacklashThe Rhetorical Situation: Getting Our Feet WetApocalyptic Rhetoric and Melodrama: Silent Spring or Chicken Littles?Dominant v. Critical Discourses: Revisiting Water and FoodMythEco-Celebrities: Cool or Cruel?SummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 3 * Contested Meanings of the Environment: A Brief History Turtle IslandLearning to Love NatureWilderness Preservation versus Natural Resource ConservationPublic Health and the Environmental MovementEnvironmental Justice: Linking Social Justice and Public HealthContemporary MovementsSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 4 * Contested Discourses: Communicating Climate ChangeEarly Awareness of Climate Change and the Technical SphereChallenges to Communicating Care in the Climate CrisisPublic Communication about Climate ControversiesEarly Climate Symbols: Tipping Points and FootprintsWho is Hit First and Worst?: The Cruel Irony of Climate ChangeClimate Action Backlash: Uncertainty, Delay, and DisinformationTalking about the Climate CrisisPublic Opinion Data: Backlash is a Minority--The Majority CareSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsPart II * Environmental Campaigns And Movements Chapter 5 * Environmental Justice Movement: From Disobedience to ReinventionThe Lifecycle of the Movement for Environmental JusticeThe Lifecycle of the Movement for Environmental JusticeReaffirming and Reinventing Movements for Environmental JusticeFlipping the Script: Talking about Environmental PrivilegeSummary Suggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 6 * Advocacy for Climate Justice: Moving from Cruel Irony to a Just TransitionClimate Injustice: A Global PatternAdvocacy and the Dilemma of Social ChangeInside or Outside, Take One: Articulating A Just TransitionInside or Outside, Take One: Disrupting Business as UsualSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 7 * Visual Rhetoric & Market-based Advocacy: From Boycotts to DivestmentVisual Rhetoric and Nature AdvocacySeeing the American WestMoving Images of DisastersWitnessing Biodiversity Loss through Projection Mapping and DocumentariesAlert, Amplify, and EngageThree Challenges for (Digital) EngagementMarket-based AdvocacyDivest and Reinvest Climate CampaignsSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 8 * Environmental Advocacy Campaigns: From Resisting Toxic Pollution to Protecting Zuni Salt LakeA Warmup to Advocacy Campaigns: Critical RhetoricEnvironmental Advocacy CampaignsAn Advocacy Campaign for a Toxic Study and Redress in MississippiAn Advocacy Campaign to Protect Zuni Salt Lake from Strip-MiningSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsPart III * Environmental Communication Here, There, Everywhere Chapter 9 * Environmental Journalism: From Narratives to Fact-Checking Environmental Journalism in the Public SphereA Perfect Storm: The Decline of Traditional Journalism in the WestBreaking News and Environmental JournalismPolitical Economy of News MediaMedia Effects and InfluencesDigital Storytelling and Environmental NewsThe Impact of AI on Veracity: An Emerging TrendSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 10 * Green Advertising and Media: From Greenwashing to Sustainable StorylinesThe Environment and Popular CultureSustainability Discourses: Public Goods versus Free MarketsCorporate Sustainability CommunicationGreenwashing: Lies and LawsuitsSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 11 * Risk Communication: From the Trope of Uncertainty to Health Activism Dangerous Environments: Assessment in a Risk SocietyCommunicating Risks in the Public SphereThe Precautionary Principle: "Better Safe than Sorry"Toxic Politics: From Privatizing to Publicizing Chemical DisastersFracked: The Expansion of Hydraulic Fracturing and The Voices of DissentSummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsPart IV * Disputed Environmental Laws and DisorderChapter 12 * Possibilities of Public Participation: Food Fights & Toxic Politics, ContinuedRights of Public Participation: An OverviewRight to Know: Transparency and Access to InformationRight to Comment: InvolvementAdvisory Committees on Toxic Pollution--and the Ideal of CollaborationSLAPP: Strategic Litigation against Public ParticipationGrowth of Public Participation GloballySummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsChapter 13 * Debating Voice and Standing: From Nature''s Rights to Intergenerational JusticeRight of Expression and Right of AssemblyRight of Standing: Who Legally Can Speak?Landmark Cases on Environmental StandingReversing, Slowing, Or Reducing Global Warming as InjuryWho Should Have a Right of Standing?SummarySuggested ResourcesKey TermsDiscussion QuestionsEpilogue: Imagining Stories for Our FutureGlossaryReferencesIndex.