Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development

Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u is the Managing Editor of "Africa Policy Journal" at Harvard Kennedy School, USA. He is a development expert and the author of Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria (2018). An ex-BBC journalist, and previously Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria University, UK, he has taught global journalism and mass communications at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Bayero University, Nigeria.Jan Servaes was UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change. He has taught International Communication and Communication for Social Change in Australia, Belgium, China, Hong Kong, the United States, the Netherlands, and Thailand, in addition to several teaching stints at about 120 universities in 55 countries. Servaes is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal “Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies.” He isthe Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change (2020).

• Part 1: Introduction: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.- 1. Communication for Sustainable Development in the Age of COVID-19.- 2. The Sustainable Development Goals: A Major Reboot or Just Another Acronym?.- 3. SDG18—The Missing Ventilator: An Introduction to the 2030 Agenda for Development.- 4. Communication for Sustainable Development and Blue Growth: Towards New Theoretical and Empirical Directions.- 5. A Buddhist Approach to Participatory Communication and Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Lao PDR.- 6. Between Rights and Diversities: Can the Regulation of Communication Help Prevent Climate Change and Promote Sustainable Development?.- 7. Islamic Finance for SDGs: A Mirage?.- Part 2: Communicating the Global Goals.- 8. Community Learning Centre as a Promising Medium for Promoting Sustainable Development Goal 4: Lifelong Learning.- 9. Communicating Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Evaluation of Education Experiences and Proposals for Teachers’ Orientation.- 10. Media, Literacy and Education: Partners for Sustainable Development.- 11. The Paradox in Discourse and Praxis of Gender Equality: A Communicative Framework for Sustainable Development.- 12. Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: An Analytical Overview of Indian Experience (2000–2019).- 13. Fostering Gender-Sensitive Programming and Practices Among Community Radios in India: The Road Ahead.- 14. Miscommunication of Harms? A Critique of SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production Implementation in the Food Sector in Northern Ireland.- 15. Fake News and SDG16: The Situation in Ghana.- 16.Communication for Sustainable Social Change and the Pursuit of Zero Hunger: The Food Sovereignty Language Frame.- 17. Internet Philanthropy as China’s ‘Digital Solution’ to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, Politics and Critique.- 18. Facts Aren’t Enough: Addressing Communication Challenges in the Pollinator Crisis and Beyond.- Part 3:International Communication, Journalism and Sustainable Development.- 19. Egyptian TV Coverage of the Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS): Egypt Vision 2030.- 20. SDG #3: Communicating “Health for All” in German-Speaking Countries as Exemplified by HIV/AIDS Advertising Campaigns.- 21. Global Communication and Sustainable Development: From the Earth Summit in Rio 1992 to the Olympic Games in Rio 2016.- 22. A Comparative Analysis of American and Chinese News Media Coverage of Climate Change Issues over the Period 2007–2015.- 23. Running Ahead: Trump’s Presidency and Climate Change Discourses. Has Trump’s Presidency Changed Climate Change Discourses?: A Text Mining Analysis of Newspaper Contents in the United States.- 24. Communicating Development: NewsCoverage of the SDGs in the Nigerian Press.- 25. Selected Journalists’ Role Perception Towards Achieving Agenda 2030 in Nigeria.- Part 4:Conclusion.- 26. Beyond the SDGs: From 2030 to 2050 Agenda for Development.