Journalism and Climate Crisis - 9781138950382

Taylor & Francis

Journalism and Climate CrisisPublic Engagement, Media Alternatives\nAuthor(s): Robert Hackett, Susan Forde, Shane Gunster, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138950382, 978-1138950382\nSynopsis\nJournalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives recognizes that climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is also a question of political and communicative capacity. \n\nThis book enquires into which approaches to journalism, as a particularly important form of public communication, can best enable humanity to productively address climate crisis. The book combines selective overviews of previous research, normative enquiry (what should journalism be doing?) and original empirical case studies of environmental communication and media coverage in Australia and Canada. Bringing together perspectives from the fields of environmental communication and journalism studies, t.