Media, Politics and Environment

Dr. Detlef Briesen is a social scientist from Justus-Liebig University Giessen in Germany. His research chiefly focuses on South and Southeast Asia, and he has served as DAAD University Advisor in Vietnam since 2010. He has organized numerous research projects and conferences and has authored over 100 publications in German, English and French. Dr. Sarada Prasanna Das is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research’s Initiative on Climate Energy and Environment (ICEE) in New Delhi, India. His research interests include sociology and politics of electricity governance, environmental governance and water-energy-food nexus in the context of India.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Media and the Environment.- Chapter 2. The hybrid media system as battlefield for climate politics. Media and Politics in transformation.- Chapter 3. Enquiring Framing in India’s Mainstream Newspapers: Interpreting frames of the Climate Change news in India during COP-26.- Chapter 4. Environmental Scandals as Indicators of Social Value Change since the 1960s.- Chapter 5. Social Media and the Environmental Discourse in Vietnam.- Chapter 6. Media, Politics, and the Environment from a Federal Politics Perspective in India.- Chapter 7. Media and Environmental Destruction in Indonesia.- Chapter 8. On the missing links in climate change communication in two states of India: Problems, politics, and solutions.- Chapter 9. Mediated Politics and the Environment:  A Case Study of ‘Odd-Even Schemes’ of Delhi Government to Curb the Pollution.- Part 2: Environmental Politics, Mobilisations and Media.- Chapter 10. State’s commitment to environmental governance in India: Struggle between developmental pressure and sustainability challenges.- Chapter 11. Environmental Resistance India: Special Reference to North-East India.- Chapter 12. Perspectives and Orientations of the Communist Party of Vietnam on Environmental Protection.- Chapter 13. Does the Environment Matter in Sri Lanka? Nexus between Environment, Politics, and Media.- Chapter 14. Environmental Policy in Indonesia from the Post-New Order Era to the Present: Positive Adjustments and Limitations.- Chapter 15. Aspects of Civil Engagement, Media and Environmental Issues in Japan.- Part 3: Media, Environment, and the Commons.- Chapter 16. Environmental Policy and the Tragedy of the Commons. A German’s Impressions of India.- Chapter 17. Expanding Urban, Shrinking Rural: Land and Common Grabs and Environmental Degradation in Peri-Urban Kolkata, West Bengal.- Chapter 18. The Problem of the Commons in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh.- Chapter 19. Summary.