Pat Brereton is a Professor in the School of Communications and is Co-Director of the Climate and Society Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgements General Appeal: Essential Concepts for Environmental Communications General Introduction A-Z entriesAccess to nature and love of nature: Case study Eco-tourism and Star Wars in IrelandAdvertising and Nature: How Environmental Issues are Projected in Media and PR Affluence versus sustainable consumption in addressing Climate ChangeAgency and childhood innocence in animation: Promoting Environmental Activism: (Case study of Ferngully and Princess Mononoke.) Agenda Setting and News Media coverage of Environmental IssuesAnthropomorphism, human love and the personification of animals: BlackfishAnti-nuclear modes of environmental thinking – case study of Chernobyl Avant Garde stories: Popularising Environmental Themes and Issues – Deseret Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and Climate ChangeBlue Humanities: increasing Carbon and Waste Emissions Carbon lock-in: a strategy for dealing with stranded assets – communicating the challenges Circular Economy: Environmental Media, Inclusive and Just Transition - Snowpiercer Circular Economy Finance and its Limitations Citizen Media Engagement and Strategies used for Audience Reception StudiesClimate Literacy and Environmental Activism - OzarkClimate Markets and Cap and Trade as Practical Environmental-Economic Solutions Cognitive Dissonance and Eco-modernism Communication/Media Models used for Environmental CommunicationCommunity Engagement / Environmental Citizenship - ‘Change by Degrees’Conservation as an Environmental Strategy towards evaluating Wilderness - Yellowstone Consumption and the Diderot Effect: Sustainable Reduction, Reuse and Recycle Coronavirus: Health and Effective Environmental Communication – Contagion Creative Imaginary used to explore Solutions to Climate Change - 2040 Critical Theory and Environmental CommunicationCritique of Historical Western Consumer Society – case study of A Christmas CarolDe-growth: Radical Solutions for Climate Change StabilityDemocratic Deficit: From Techno-fix to Gaia - the War Narrative Ecological Modernism and Sustainable Development: Our Common FutureEco-villages – Case study of Cloughjordan: an Irish Transitional and Sustainable Project Ecocriticism and the Growth of Environmental CommunicationEco-materialism: Case Study of the Real Environmental Cost of Media Production Education versus Disinformation: Promoting Environmental LiteracyEffects Theory and Environmental Behavioural ChangeEmployment opportunities: Feeding into Environmental Communications HE Courses. Enclosure Movement and Tragedy of the Commons Energy Humanities: From Fossil Fuels to the Carbon Economy Energy Landscapes and Media Perceptions: Case study of IrelandEnvironmental Media Risk Campaigns: Best Practice ProtocolsEnvironmental Citizenship as a model of engaging Humans around Climate ChangeEnvironmental Management of the Media: Marrying Mindmapping and Carbon FootprintingEnvironmental Justice: Case study India Environmental Justice: Case study of Representations of Inuit in The Terror (Nora Doorley)Environmental Justice: A Case Study of Renewable Energy in Postcolonial MoroccoEnvironmental Justice: A Case Study of Uruguay (Victoria Gomez) Fake News, Post Truth and Environment Communication – The Social DilemmaFast Fashion, The Third World and the Circular Economy Free Press theory versus Social Responsibility Model of Media: Case Study ClimategateGreen Transformation and Global Citizen Engagement - Green New Deal (Naomi Klein) Greening the Higher Education Curriculum: Drawing on the power of Children’s MediaGreening the Media: Drawing on Scholarship in using New Environmental Media JournalsGreenwashing The Corporate and Media Industry; PR limitations and CSRGreenwashing Lite: Celebrity Culture and Green Product Placement: Down to EarthHistorical Environmental Representations of Communal Living: Happy as Lazarro Hippie Counter Culture, Active Environmental Agency and Eco-Spirituality: Leave No TraceHuman Rights violation and Climate Change: Who should pay!Intersectionality and eco-citizenship: Drawing on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity DebatesJevon’s Paradox, Energy Efficiency and its Environmental Application: Case Study F1Just Transition and Energy: from Fossil Fuels to Renewables - Peat workers in Ireland Legal Representations of Environmental Agency: Case Studies of Dark Waters Linguistic Discourse and ecocriticism – Naming the Crisis!Literary Tropes for Representing Low Carbon Futures Mediatization of Climate Change with a focus on Environmental ConcernsMedia Coverage of Climate Change debate: triggers for promoting Environmental Literacy Multi-level perspective (MLP) analysis of Climate ChangeMuseums and Curating Exhibitions as a model for Representations of Climate Change Native (Invader) species: Representations and Effects on Bio-diversity Natural Capital as a Business Response in dealing with Climate ChangeNature Based Solutions – A Life on our PlanetNIMBY’ism (Not in my back yard): Case Study of Renewable Energy Non-Conventional Environmental Activism: a case study of Women at WarOrganic signifiers of communication with a national eco-system – Tree of LifeOverton window and Making Radical Political Environmental DecisionsPastoralism as model of Human’s love of Nature in Literature and FilmPeak Oil and ‘Keep it in the Ground’: contested environmental debatesPetrofiction, Petrochemical Emissions: Reaching Dangerous Limits Posthumanism and Ecological ThinkingPostmodernism and Climate Change CommunicationPopulation overshoot: our Ecological Footprint and loss of Biodiversity - Downsizing Queer Theorising and Nature: New modes of imagining Gender – Brokeback MountainRegenerative Soil and overcoming Desertification: Case Study of Kiss the GroundReligious Fanaticism and Romanticisation of Nature: Case Study of A Hidden LifeRenewable Energy Debates and Critiques: Case study of Planet of the Humans Risk Society and Climate Change Sensory Big Data and Art: Communicating through the Five SensesShock Doctrine and Pandemics: as a precursor for the Climate Crisis Sixth Extinction and Environmental Disasters Slow Violence and Poverty: Lack of Equity in Representing Environmental Scholarship Social Media and Climate Change Communication: A Tool for Innovation!Spiritual Representations of Environmental Agency: First ReformedSustainable Communication and Environmental New Media researchSustainability Accounting – (Aideen O'Dochartaigh, DCU Business School)Tipping point around climate change transformation – Audience ResearchTransdisciplinary research (TDR) and Environmental CommunicationUtopian Environmental Messaging: Lessons from Hollywood and guides to Young PeopleVeganism and Promoting Environmental Values through Celebrity Endorsement Water Documentaries as Public Service Announcement (PSA) - Irish Water ConflictWeather Documentary Scholarship: Mediating Climate Change Effects and Public Opinion Westerns reflecting Deep Environmental Issues and Nature’s Revenge: Wild River Wind Energy: Storytelling, Renewable Energy and Community Adaptation World Bank (The) and Developing Effective Financial Environmental Communication *Final Essay: The Future of Environmental Communications – Overcoming Anxiety[A-Z Audio Visual Case Studies]

"In the ever-expanding field of environmental humanities, Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A-Z Guide is a commendable collection that constitutes instances of a wide range of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature. In the background of the post-COVID challenges of sustainability, this collection addresses climate change through the lens of media and communications. This book highlights challenging notions and ideas that will continue to define this developing multidisciplinary topic even as it aims to compile writings and reflections from a wide spectrum of studies in the connected fields."- Green Letters, Dipayan Dutta, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University