Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture

Official journal of the International Environmental Communication Association

Published By: Routledge
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Print ISSN: 1752-4032
Online ISSN: 1752-4040

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Contents

Current calls for papers

Instructions for authors

Online submissons

About the Journal

Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship that examines theories, practices, and processes of communication as they relate to the environment around the world. As such, the journal serves as a nexus, a place of global connection and conversation, among scholars working in and across a variety of disciplines who explore how humans communicate about and within both natural and cultural environments. The journal also seeks to promote interaction between academic scholars and those who practice environmental communication, including community members, industry professionals, government officials, and others, through a number of special features, including a regularly published section devoted to practice.

The journal is grounded in two theoretical and practical commitments: 1) symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted, and 2) effective engagement with environmental issues requires reflection on communication practices and processes. Consistent with those commitments, the journal will promote the following goals:

• Develop theoretical concepts, models, or formulations that uniquely explain or illuminate the material and symbolic dimensions of human interfaces with the non-human life world. This journal will seek to publish environmental communication research that contributes to the development of broader theories and ways of understanding how humans communicate with one another in various places, communities and cultures.
• Present and engage in conversation multiple approaches to exploring environmental communication, including empirical, experimental, cultural, ethnographic, textual, ethical, rhetorical, and critical. This journal will open to publishing work that examines important issues (such as the promotion of "just sustainability" in urban and rural environments around the world) and concepts (such as the "environmental self," the ways in which one's self-concept relates to one's surroundings) from a variety of methodological perspectives within communication and other fields. The journal also hopes to engage scholars from a variety of disciplines, with distinct perspectives, frameworks, and research findings, as well as practitioners in the field, in productive conversations about environmental communication concepts and practices.
• Explore the tensions and possibilities between conventional academic scholarship and more participatory "action research" that are experienced by many scholars who work in environmental communication. This journal will highlight, celebrate, and also interrogate "pracademic" activities engaged in by scholars, teachers, students, and advocates, in communities urban and rural, in the United States and around the world.

Praxis Essays

We invite a variety of submissions, including: research reports based on experimental, survey, or field research; theoretical essays; literature review; and critical case studies.  We also publish a regular Praxis Essays section that showcases engaged scholarship.  For the Praxis Essays call for submissions please click here.

Abstracting & Indexing
Environmental Communication is now listed in: Communication Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index ©, Current Contents / Social and Behavioural Science ® and EBSCO.

Editor

• Stephen Depoe, University of Cincinnati

Associate Editors

• Anabela Carvalho, Universidade do Minho
• Anders Hansen, University of Leicester
• Laura Lindenfeld, University of Maine
• Libby Lester, University of Tasmania

PRAXIS Co-Editors

• Cindy Spurlock, Appalachian State University
• Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Kitty Van Vuuren, University of Queensland

Editorial Board

• Julian Agyeman, Tufts University
• Alison Anderson, University of Plymouth
• Bernie Ankney, Samford University
• Peter Berglez, Oreboro University, Sweden
• Max Boykoff, University of Colorado
• Robert Brulle, Drexel University
• Connie Bullis, University of Utah
• James Cantrill, Northern Michigan University
• Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts
• William Chaloupka, Colorado State University
• Caron Chess, Rutgers University
• Julia Corbett, University of Utah
• Robert Cox, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Geoffrey Craig, University of Otago
• Kevin DeLuca, University of Utah
• Julie Doyle, University of Brighton
• Sharon Dunwoody, University of Wisconsin
• Danielle Endres, University of Utah
• Neil Gavin, University of Liverpool
• Rod Giblett, Edith Cowan University
• Robert Heath, University of Houston
• Harald Heinrichs, Leuphana University Lüneburg
• Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont
• Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University
• William Kinsella, North Carolina State University
• Nelya Koteyko, University of Leicester
• Tracy Marafiote, State University of New York-Fredonia
• Katherine McComas, Cornell University
• Mark Meisner, IECA
• Tema Milstein, University of New Mexico
• Ramli Mohamed, Universiti Sains Malaysia
• Susanne Moser, Moser Research & Consulting; and Stanford University
• Todd Norton, Washington State University
• Ulrika Olausson, Örebro University
• Andrew Opel, Florida State University
• Jennifer Peeples, Utah State University
• Phaedra Pezzullo, Indiana University
• Louise Phillips, Roskilde University
• Emily Plec, Western Oregon University
• Richard Rogers, Northern Arizona University
• Juliet Roper, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Connie Roser-Renouf, George Mason University
• Chris Russill, Carleton University
• Steven Schwarze, University of Montana
• James Shanahan, Boston University
• Stacey Sowards, University of Texas at El Paso
• Anne Marie Todd, San Jose State University
• Gregg Walker, Oregon State University
• Thomas Webler, Social and Environmental Risk Institute
• Barb Willard, DePaul University