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Introduktionskurs till miljökommunikation - Att förstå och hantera miljöutmaningar ur ett kommunikationsperspektiv

Environmental communication is an integral part of environmental management and sustainability transformations. Processes and outcomes of communication play a central role in understanding and addressing environmental challenges such as climate change, unsustainable lifestyles and exploitation of natural resources, and in shaping human-nature relationships. Through lectures, workshops, literature studies and group work, this course offers an introduction to social scientific perspectives for understanding environmental communication as it occurs in everyday life, including casual conversations, environmental campaigns and policies, as well as in multi-stakeholder decision-making. The course brings forward the importance of understanding environmental communication as both instrumental and constitutive. This broadens the traditional understanding of communication as the transmission of expert knowledge and information, and emphasizes the role that communication plays in creating and transforming the knowledge, values, norms and practices that shape today’s sustainability and environmental issues. The course includes practical components designed to deepen students´ understanding of theoretical perspectives and to develop practical skills, usually through interactive workshops and group work. These components involve producing environmental communication artefacts and facilitating dialogue processes between different perspectives.


The course has several mandatory activities that require in person attendance (see Information from course leader and Schedule)


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Required Readings (RR)

Note: The course literature also includes additional texts that are not listed here. These are supplementary or suggested readings for students who want to read more about the course topics. PDFs of all Required Readings will be available at the start of the course. The course does not have a main course book that you have to buy.

  • Hite, K. A., & Seitz, J. L. (2016). Global issues: an introduction (5th edition). John Wiley & Sons. Oxford.

Depending on your literature group one of the following:

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 6 – Subsections: Awakening, Land, Extinction of species, Extinction of cultures

Chapter 6 – Subsections: Awakening, Air, Water

Chapter 7

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  • Rödl, M., Mutter, A., Fischer, A., Calderón, C. & Hallgren, L. (forthcoming). Environmental Communication - A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Role of Ideas in Environmental Communication

Chapter 3: Environmental communication as symbolic interaction

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  • Pezzullo, P., Cox, R. (2018). Environmental communication and the public sphere. 5th edition. Sage publications: Washington DC.

Chapter 1: Defining Environmental Communication

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  • Milstein, T. (2009). Environmental Communication Theories. In: A. Foss, K. & Littlejohn.W, S. (eds.) Encyclopedia of communication theory. Thousand Oaks California US: SAGE Publications, Inc. 344–349.
  • Fischer, A., Joosse, S., Hallgren, L., & Westberg, L. (2024). How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations: practices, concerns and new perspectives on environmental communication. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 67(9), 1871–1885. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2024.2345737
  • Ngozi-Adichie, C. (2009). *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED ***[video] **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg&t=1s&ab_channel=TED
  • Buijs, A., Hovardas, T., Figari, H., Castro, P., Devine-Wright, P., Fischer, A., Mouro, C. & Selge, S. (2012). Understanding People’s Ideas on Natural Resource Management: Research on Social Representations of Nature. Society & Natural Resources, 25 (11), 1167–1181. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2012.670369
  • Höijer, B. (2011). Social Representations Theory. Nordicom Review, 32 (2), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0109
  • Rogers, R.A. (2008). Beasts, Burgers, and Hummers: Meat and the Crisis of Masculinity in Contemporary Television Advertisements. Environmental Communication, 2 (3), 281–301. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524030802390250
  • Hathaway, J.R. (2020). Climate Change, the Intersectional Imperative, and the Opportunity of the Green New Deal. Environmental Communication, 14 (1), 13–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2019.1629977
  • MacGregor, S. (2017). Routledge handbook of gender and environment. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Introduction: Gender and Environment: An Introduction, pp. 1 – 6

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  • Joas, H. & Knöbl, W. (2009*). Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 6: Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism, pp. 123 – 149.

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  • Innes, J. and Booher, D. (2016). Collaborative rationality as a strategy for working with wicked problems. Landscape and Urban Planning, 154**, **pp. 8-10.
  • Reed, M. S. (2008). Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review. Biological Conservation, 141, pp. 2417-2431.
  • Connelly, S. & Richardson, T. (2004). Exclusion: the necessary difference between ideal and practical consensus. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 47 (1), 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0964056042000189772
  • Brulle, R.J. (2010). From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement. Environmental Communication, 4 (1), 82–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524030903522397
  • Sprain, L., van Over, B. & Morgan, E.L. (2016). Divergent meanings of community. In: Peterson, T.R., Ljunggren Bergeå, H., Feldpausch-Parker, A.M., & Raitio, K. (eds) Environmental Communication and Community: Constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation. London: Routledge. 249–265.
  • Moore, A. (2012) Following from the front: theorizing deliberative facilitation. Critical Policy Studies 6(2): 146–162.
  • Ozawa CP, Shmueli DF & Kaufman S (2017) Process design decisions in community-based collaboration: implications for implementation and collateral social benefits. Planning Theory & Practice 18(3): 407–427.
  • Westin, M. (2019) Rethinking power in participatory planning: towards reflective practice. Dissertation. SLU, Uppsala.

Pages 11-12.

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Chapter 5: How to be a facilitator, pp. 24-35

Kursfakta

Kursen ges som en fristående kurs: Ja Kursen ges som en programkurs: EnvEuro - European Master in Environmental Science Miljökommunikation - masterprogram Kursavgift: Studieavgift, endast för medborgare utanför EU, EES, och Schweiz: 45010 SEK Nivå: Avancerad nivå (A1N)
Ämne: Miljövetenskap
Kurskod: MX0168 Anmälningskod: SLU-10168 Plats: Uppsala Distanskurs: Nej Undervisningsspråk: Engelska Ansvarig institution: Institutionen för stad och land Studietakt: 100%