News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bruno Takahashi is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, USA.Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.Manuel Chavez is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, USA.Mercedes Vigón is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.

• Chapter 1: Challenges in the reporting of environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Part One. North America and the Caribbean.- Chapter 2: The News Media and Environmental Challenges in Mexico: the Structural Deficits of Coverage and Reporting by the Press.- Chapter 3: Comparing Cuban and South Florida Spanish-Language Media Coverage of Sea Level Rise.- Part Two. The Andes and the Amazon regions.- Chapter 4: Environmental Journalism in Brazil: History, Characteristics, and Framing of Disasters.- Chapter 5:Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources but Old Media-State Tensions and Practices.- Chapter 6: Environmental journalism in Colombia: An analysis of two specialized environmental magazines.- Chapter 7: The challenges for environmental reporting in Peru: Coverage of small-scale mining in Peruvian newspapers.- Part Three. Southern South America.- Chapter 8: Environmental journalism in Argentina.- Chapter 9: The future of environmental communication and journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean.