Kathleen P. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Communication at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Gregg B. Walker is Professor of Communication at Oregon State University. He is the coauthor of Working through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach (with Stephen E. Daniels) and The Military-Industrial Complex: Eisenhower's Warning Three Decades Later (with Steven J. Sprecher and David A. Bella). Stephen P. Depoe is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. He is the coeditor of several books, including Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making (with John W. Delicath and Marie-France Aepli Elsenbeer), also published by SUNY Press.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: From Public Participation to Community Engagement—and BeyondKathleen P. Hunt, Susan Senecah, Gregg B. Walker, and Stephen P. DepoeOpening Reflections1. Health, the Environment, and Sustainability: Emergent Communication Lessons Across Highly Diverse Public Participation ActivitiesLinda Silka, Bridie McGreavy, and David D. HartSection I. Exploring Dimensions of Participation Within Policy Frameworks 2. Listening and Learning: Stakeholder Views of Participation and Communication in Forest PlanningGregg B. Walker, Steve Daniels, Sharon Timko, Carmine Lockwood, and Susan Hansen3. Rethinking Public Participation: The Case of Public Land Management in the American WestMatthew McKinney4. Speaking of Place: Analysis of Place-Based Discourse in Participatory Decision MakingColene J. Lind5. Cultural Discourses of Public Participation: Insights for Democratic Design and Energy System TransformationLydia Reinig and Leah Sprain6. The Radical Potential of Public Participation Processes: Using Indecorous Voice and Resistance to Expand the Scope of Public ParticipationKathleen P. Hunt, Nicholas S. Paliewicz, and Danielle EndresSection II. Expanding Pathways of Community Engagement 7. Advancing Practical Theory in Environmental Communication: A Phronetic Analysis of Environmental Participation and Dialogue in New ZealandGiles Dodson and Anna Palliser8. Toward Communicative Space: A Maritime Agora of Backrooms and ThoroughfaresChui-Ling Tam9. Rare’s Conservation Campaigns: Community Decision Making and Public Participation in Global ContextsSarah D. Upton, Carlos A. Tarin, Stacey K. Sowards, and Kenneth C. C. Yang10. Fracking, the Elsipogtog First Nation, and Disruptive Public Participation: The Role of Images in Amplifying Outrage on TwitterMolly Simis-Wilkinson and Jill E. HopkeSection III. Enacting Horizons of Civic Technology 11. Sustainable Stories: Integrated Transmedia as an Ecology of StorymakingTyler Quiring12. Eco-Apps and Environmental Public ParticipationEli TyphinaList of ContributorsIndex

"The book's premise—of acknowledging how historic modes of communication are at loggerheads with the issues we are facing—is important, especially as issues like climate change become even more complex, raising key questions about where and how public participation takes place. More important, the book raises questions about why public participation is still relevant, needed even, regardless of shifts in communicative technologies." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"Breaking Boundaries is an enlightening collection … Academics studying environmental communication and/or public policy would do well to have this volume on their shelves." — Technical Communication