Environmental communication

• Environmental communication• refers to the study and practice of how individuals,

institutions, societies, and cultures craft, distribute,receive, understand, and use messages about theenvironment and human interactions with theenvironment. This includes a wide range of possibleinteractions, from interpersonal communicationto virtual communities, participatory decisionmaking, and environmental media coverage.

• Environmental journalism is the collection,verification, production, distribution andexhibition of information regarding currentevents, trends, issues and people that areassociated with the non-human world withwhich humans necessarily interact

• To be an environmental journalist, one must havean understanding of scientific language andpractice, knowledge of historical environmentalevents, the ability to keep abreast of environmentalpolicy decisions and the work of environmentalorganizations, a general understanding of currentenvironmental concerns, and the ability tocommunicate all of that information to the public insuch a way that it can be easily understood, despiteits complexity.

• Environmental journalism falls within the scopeof environmental communication.

• Environmental communication is all of the formsof communication that are engaged with the socialdebate about environmental issues and problems.

• Also within the scope of environmentalcommunication are the genres of nature writing,science writing, environmental literature,environmental interpretation andenvironmental advocacy. While there is a greatdeal of overlap among the various genres withinenvironmental communication, they are eachdeserving of their own definition.

• Climate change, Conservation, farming,Land degradation, Soil, Nuclear issues,Overpopulation, Ozone depletion,Pollution, Water pollution, Air pollution,Reservoirs, Resource depletion,Consumerism, Fishing, Mining, Waste .

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