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As climate change continues to impact New England's coastal ecosystems and their related fisherie... more As climate change continues to impact New England's coastal ecosystems and their related fisheries, the need for measuring, projecting, interpreting, and applying those impacts for adaptive management is expanding. In New England, different types of formal and informal research efforts that involve collaboration between the fishing community and traditional university and government researchers continue to develop to address some of this need. To better understand the opportunities and challenges that these collaborative research efforts face, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 members of the fishing and research communities who are engaged in advancing New England climate change and fisheries science. Participants showed clear concern for the impacts of climate change on New England fisheries and about the insufficient availability of the necessary science to manage for those impacts. They also noted a number of challenges in collaborative research, including poor communication and a lack of trust among fishers, researchers, and decision makers, as well as a lack of perceived credibility for research coming out of the fishing community. We identify a number of opportunities for improving collaboration and communication among these groups, which could build upon the identified value of existing collaborations.

Urban aquatic restoration can be difficult to accomplish because of complications like industrial... more Urban aquatic restoration can be difficult to accomplish because of complications like industrial pollutants, population density, infrastructure, and expense; however, unique opportunities in urban settings, including the potential to provide benefits to many diverse people, can make urban restoration especially rewarding. The success of urban restoration projects—even those focused primarily on ecological targets—depends on community involvement and managers considering community needs. However, research on the social barriers to urban restoration and strategies managers use to overcome them is relatively rare. This work attempts to fill that gap by presenting barriers for aquatic restoration projects in urban settings and strategies to overcome them. Building from interviews with restoration managers involved in urban aquatic restoration projects in Rhode Island, we contribute through an adaptive management approach: identifying and synthesizing the lessons learned from managers’ work in urban settings. Ultimately, we suggest potential for double- and triple-loop learning by disentangling and critiquing the frames and policy/power structures that influence decision making in urban aquatic restoration.

Ecological engagement is about attending to the possibilities of dwelling in a place; skunkwork i... more Ecological engagement is about attending to the possibilities of dwelling in a place; skunkwork is a way of orienting this dwelling. Skunkwork refers to creative, self-coordinated, collective work in informal spaces of learning and reminds us that ecologically attuned work in the world can promote unexpected, yet collectively desired, change. In this essay, we describe how we used skunkwork to orient our ecological engagement in two workshops on 'community resilience.' In both workshops, Boulder Creek became our commonplace, with its history of flooding and abatements as well as one city's planning and management of crisis and sustainability. We draw from our respective home ecologies and our collective experiences in these workshops to highlight how four attributes of skunkwork and ecological engagement, namely proximity, movement, ecological narration, and weak theory, contribute to community engagement scholarship and advocacy.

Pedagogy informed by environmental communication can enhance collaboration within and outside the... more Pedagogy informed by environmental communication can
enhance collaboration within and outside the classroom.
Through our collaborative, sustainability-focused work within the United States and internationally, we identified core capacities that prepare people to work together to form inclusive organizations and identify and respond to pressing socioecological problems. We describe six activities we have used in adult learner classrooms, on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research teams, and with organizational, governmental, and business partners to improve collaborations for sustainability-related problem solving. We conclude with a reflection on opportunities for situated assessment practices.

In the land use and land cover (LULC) literature, narrative scenarios are qualitative description... more In the land use and land cover (LULC) literature, narrative scenarios are qualitative descriptions of plausible futures associated with a combination of socioeconomic , policy, technological, and climate changes. LULC models are then often used to translate these narrative descriptions into quantitative characterizations of possible future societal and ecological impacts and conditions. To respect the intent of the underlying scenario descriptions, this process of translation needs to be thoughtful, transparent, and reproducible. This paper evaluates the current state of the art in scenario translation methods and outlines their relative advantages and disadvantages, as well as the respective roles of stakeholders and subject matter experts. We summarize our findings in the form of a decision matrix that can assist land use planners, scientists, and modelers in choosing a translation method appropriate to their situation.

Scholars have focused on militaristic metaphors of invasion for more than a decade, but few if an... more Scholars have focused on militaristic metaphors of invasion for more than a decade, but few if any studies look to the on-the-ground language of restoration practitioners to determine how they talk about invasive species. Here we demonstrate the absence of militaristic metaphors in one subset of restoration managers in coastal Rhode Island who manage for introduced Phragmites australis, the highly invasive common reed. Instead, these managers frame their discussions of Phragmites in terms of indicators of condition, ecosystem services, and resilience, which might indicate a shift away from command-and-control models of invasive species management. We suggest that qualitative research, including interviews with restoration managers, can offer a useful, in depth view onto issues of management and decision making and that it is crucially important to attend to the language of invasion science and management in an era of global change. Ecological changes in coastal ecosystems seem to impact managers’ language choices, while these language choices, in turn, can have far-reaching impacts on decision making in coastal systems.

Increasingly, scientists and funding agencies such as the US National Science Foundation are reco... more Increasingly, scientists and funding agencies such as the US National Science Foundation are recognizing the need for better science communication and more effective broader impacts activities. Compelled to make research more relevant to public stakeholders and policy makers, researchers look for ways to gain the necessary skillset to move their science from the field and laboratory into public for ums. We suggest that the ancient discipline of rhetoric provides a useful – and underutilized – path forward. Building from the fundamental connections between ecology and rhetoric and drawing from practical examples at the intersection of these two fields, we demonstrate how rhetoric can inform training in science communication for better academic writing and broader impacts, and can promote interdisciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations that support sustainability science. Integrating rhetoric and ecology helps to address complex and pressing sustainability problems through improved understanding, cooperation, and science and policy actions.

We focus on the long-term impacts of service-learning pedagogy on an oft-overlooked assessment gr... more We focus on the long-term impacts of service-learning
pedagogy on an oft-overlooked assessment group: graduate
instructors. We describe the civic engagement program we
participated in as graduate student teachers, the Chicago
Civic Leadership Certificate Program, and we illustrate how
our early experiences with community-based pedagogies led
to formative and long-term impacts on our approaches to
research, teaching, and service and on our professional and
personal work and identities. Based on our experiences, we
offer a set of best practices that can serve as a foundation
for the intentional design and assessment—both formative
and summative—of forward-thinking graduate instructor
objectives and outcomes.

Tenants and part-owners are farming an increasing number of acres in the United States, while ful... more Tenants and part-owners are farming an
increasing number of acres in the United States, while fullowners
are farming fewer acres. This shift in ownership is a
potential cause for concern because some previous research
indicated that tenant and part-owner farmers were less
likely to adopt conservation practices than farmers who
owned the land they farmed. If that trend persists, ownership
changes would signal a national drop in conservation
adoption. Here we examine this issue using a survey of
agricultural operators in the Clear Creek watershed in
Iowa, a state with intensive agricultural production. We
compare adoption of conservation practices, and preferences
for conservation information sources and communication
channels, between farmers who rent some portion of
the land they farm (tenants and part-owners) and farmers
who own all of the land they farm (full-owners). We find
that renters are more likely to practice conservation tillage
than full-owners, though they are less likely to rotate crops.
In addition, renters report using federal government
employees (specifically, Natural Resource Conservation
Service and Farm Service Agency) as their primary sources
of conservation information, while full-owners most frequently
rely on neighbors, friends, and County Extension.
These findings are significant for conservation policy
because, unlike some past research, they indicate that
renters are not resistant to all types of conservation practices,
echoing recent studies finding an increase in conservation
adoption among non-full-owners. Our results
emphasize the importance of government conservation
communication and can inform outreach efforts by helping
tailor effective, targeted conservation strategies for owners
and renters.

We look to a particular social-ecological system, the restoration community in Rhode Island, USA ... more We look to a particular social-ecological system, the restoration community in Rhode Island, USA and the rivers, wetlands, marshes, and estuaries they work to protect, to draw connections between communication, community involvement, and ecological restoration project success. Offering real-world examples drawn from interviews with 27 local, state, federal, and nonprofit restoration managers, we synthesize the mechanisms that managers found effective to argue that the communication employed by resource managers in each phase of the restoration process, in prioritization, implementation, and monitoring, and for garnering broad-based support, shapes the quality of public engagement in natural resources management, which, in turn, can impact the stakeholder, learning, and ecological success of restoration projects. Despite the possible trade-offs and conflicts between social and ecological outcomes, we suggest that managers need to consider their desired social-ecological outcomes and work from the outset to deliberately design mechanisms for communication and public engagement that weave community stakeholders into all phases of restoration projects in sustained and consequential ways.

Citizen science is growing in popularity, but little research addresses participant learning outc... more Citizen science is growing in popularity, but little research addresses participant learning outcomes. We describe the Chicago Area Pollinator Study (CAPS), which relied on citizen scientists to gather information about urban bee diversity and abundance. Based on pre- and post-CAPS participant surveys, we determined that citizen scientists collected an impressive amount of data and enjoyed the experience but did not achieve the educational goals we hoped for. We detail our failure to effectively engage citizen scientists in the learning process, and we make specific recommendations for creating the types of dynamic and mutually successful projects that scientists and citizens deserve.

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature …, 2013

This article, highlighting qualitative data collected from farmers and landowners in the Clear Cr... more This article, highlighting qualitative data collected from farmers and landowners in the Clear Creek watershed in eastern Iowa, offers a situated analysis of the relationship between rhetorical change and landscape change. After chronicling the rise of government-sponsored watershed-based agricultural conservation efforts, I adopt Kenneth Burke’s framing of rhetoric as identification to argue that the watershed, as it is mobilized in contemporary conservation efforts, serves as a potent material and symbolic site for identification. Focusing on my ethnographic research in the Clear Creek watershed in eastern Iowa, I consider how farmers’ and landowners’ identification with the watershed has prompted changes to the landscape for the sake of soil and water conservation. I then consider the implications of this argument for extending theories of the rhetorical landscape, suggesting that rhetorical landscapes contain elements of both the symbolic and the material.

As climate change continues to impact New England's coastal ecosystems and their related fisherie... more As climate change continues to impact New England's coastal ecosystems and their related fisheries, the need for measuring, projecting, interpreting, and applying those impacts for adaptive management is expanding. In New England, different types of formal and informal research efforts that involve collaboration between the fishing community and traditional university and government researchers continue to develop to address some of this need. To better understand the opportunities and challenges that these collaborative research efforts face, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 members of the fishing and research communities who are engaged in advancing New England climate change and fisheries science. Participants showed clear concern for the impacts of climate change on New England fisheries and about the insufficient availability of the necessary science to manage for those impacts. They also noted a number of challenges in collaborative research, including poor communication and a lack of trust among fishers, researchers, and decision makers, as well as a lack of perceived credibility for research coming out of the fishing community. We identify a number of opportunities for improving collaboration and communication among these groups, which could build upon the identified value of existing collaborations.

Urban aquatic restoration can be difficult to accomplish because of complications like industrial... more Urban aquatic restoration can be difficult to accomplish because of complications like industrial pollutants, population density, infrastructure, and expense; however, unique opportunities in urban settings, including the potential to provide benefits to many diverse people, can make urban restoration especially rewarding. The success of urban restoration projects—even those focused primarily on ecological targets—depends on community involvement and managers considering community needs. However, research on the social barriers to urban restoration and strategies managers use to overcome them is relatively rare. This work attempts to fill that gap by presenting barriers for aquatic restoration projects in urban settings and strategies to overcome them. Building from interviews with restoration managers involved in urban aquatic restoration projects in Rhode Island, we contribute through an adaptive management approach: identifying and synthesizing the lessons learned from managers’ work in urban settings. Ultimately, we suggest potential for double- and triple-loop learning by disentangling and critiquing the frames and policy/power structures that influence decision making in urban aquatic restoration.

Ecological engagement is about attending to the possibilities of dwelling in a place; skunkwork i... more Ecological engagement is about attending to the possibilities of dwelling in a place; skunkwork is a way of orienting this dwelling. Skunkwork refers to creative, self-coordinated, collective work in informal spaces of learning and reminds us that ecologically attuned work in the world can promote unexpected, yet collectively desired, change. In this essay, we describe how we used skunkwork to orient our ecological engagement in two workshops on 'community resilience.' In both workshops, Boulder Creek became our commonplace, with its history of flooding and abatements as well as one city's planning and management of crisis and sustainability. We draw from our respective home ecologies and our collective experiences in these workshops to highlight how four attributes of skunkwork and ecological engagement, namely proximity, movement, ecological narration, and weak theory, contribute to community engagement scholarship and advocacy.

Pedagogy informed by environmental communication can enhance collaboration within and outside the... more Pedagogy informed by environmental communication can
enhance collaboration within and outside the classroom.
Through our collaborative, sustainability-focused work within the United States and internationally, we identified core capacities that prepare people to work together to form inclusive organizations and identify and respond to pressing socioecological problems. We describe six activities we have used in adult learner classrooms, on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research teams, and with organizational, governmental, and business partners to improve collaborations for sustainability-related problem solving. We conclude with a reflection on opportunities for situated assessment practices.

In the land use and land cover (LULC) literature, narrative scenarios are qualitative description... more In the land use and land cover (LULC) literature, narrative scenarios are qualitative descriptions of plausible futures associated with a combination of socioeconomic , policy, technological, and climate changes. LULC models are then often used to translate these narrative descriptions into quantitative characterizations of possible future societal and ecological impacts and conditions. To respect the intent of the underlying scenario descriptions, this process of translation needs to be thoughtful, transparent, and reproducible. This paper evaluates the current state of the art in scenario translation methods and outlines their relative advantages and disadvantages, as well as the respective roles of stakeholders and subject matter experts. We summarize our findings in the form of a decision matrix that can assist land use planners, scientists, and modelers in choosing a translation method appropriate to their situation.

Scholars have focused on militaristic metaphors of invasion for more than a decade, but few if an... more Scholars have focused on militaristic metaphors of invasion for more than a decade, but few if any studies look to the on-the-ground language of restoration practitioners to determine how they talk about invasive species. Here we demonstrate the absence of militaristic metaphors in one subset of restoration managers in coastal Rhode Island who manage for introduced Phragmites australis, the highly invasive common reed. Instead, these managers frame their discussions of Phragmites in terms of indicators of condition, ecosystem services, and resilience, which might indicate a shift away from command-and-control models of invasive species management. We suggest that qualitative research, including interviews with restoration managers, can offer a useful, in depth view onto issues of management and decision making and that it is crucially important to attend to the language of invasion science and management in an era of global change. Ecological changes in coastal ecosystems seem to impact managers’ language choices, while these language choices, in turn, can have far-reaching impacts on decision making in coastal systems.

Increasingly, scientists and funding agencies such as the US National Science Foundation are reco... more Increasingly, scientists and funding agencies such as the US National Science Foundation are recognizing the need for better science communication and more effective broader impacts activities. Compelled to make research more relevant to public stakeholders and policy makers, researchers look for ways to gain the necessary skillset to move their science from the field and laboratory into public for ums. We suggest that the ancient discipline of rhetoric provides a useful – and underutilized – path forward. Building from the fundamental connections between ecology and rhetoric and drawing from practical examples at the intersection of these two fields, we demonstrate how rhetoric can inform training in science communication for better academic writing and broader impacts, and can promote interdisciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations that support sustainability science. Integrating rhetoric and ecology helps to address complex and pressing sustainability problems through improved understanding, cooperation, and science and policy actions.

We focus on the long-term impacts of service-learning pedagogy on an oft-overlooked assessment gr... more We focus on the long-term impacts of service-learning
pedagogy on an oft-overlooked assessment group: graduate
instructors. We describe the civic engagement program we
participated in as graduate student teachers, the Chicago
Civic Leadership Certificate Program, and we illustrate how
our early experiences with community-based pedagogies led
to formative and long-term impacts on our approaches to
research, teaching, and service and on our professional and
personal work and identities. Based on our experiences, we
offer a set of best practices that can serve as a foundation
for the intentional design and assessment—both formative
and summative—of forward-thinking graduate instructor
objectives and outcomes.

Tenants and part-owners are farming an increasing number of acres in the United States, while ful... more Tenants and part-owners are farming an
increasing number of acres in the United States, while fullowners
are farming fewer acres. This shift in ownership is a
potential cause for concern because some previous research
indicated that tenant and part-owner farmers were less
likely to adopt conservation practices than farmers who
owned the land they farmed. If that trend persists, ownership
changes would signal a national drop in conservation
adoption. Here we examine this issue using a survey of
agricultural operators in the Clear Creek watershed in
Iowa, a state with intensive agricultural production. We
compare adoption of conservation practices, and preferences
for conservation information sources and communication
channels, between farmers who rent some portion of
the land they farm (tenants and part-owners) and farmers
who own all of the land they farm (full-owners). We find
that renters are more likely to practice conservation tillage
than full-owners, though they are less likely to rotate crops.
In addition, renters report using federal government
employees (specifically, Natural Resource Conservation
Service and Farm Service Agency) as their primary sources
of conservation information, while full-owners most frequently
rely on neighbors, friends, and County Extension.
These findings are significant for conservation policy
because, unlike some past research, they indicate that
renters are not resistant to all types of conservation practices,
echoing recent studies finding an increase in conservation
adoption among non-full-owners. Our results
emphasize the importance of government conservation
communication and can inform outreach efforts by helping
tailor effective, targeted conservation strategies for owners
and renters.

We look to a particular social-ecological system, the restoration community in Rhode Island, USA ... more We look to a particular social-ecological system, the restoration community in Rhode Island, USA and the rivers, wetlands, marshes, and estuaries they work to protect, to draw connections between communication, community involvement, and ecological restoration project success. Offering real-world examples drawn from interviews with 27 local, state, federal, and nonprofit restoration managers, we synthesize the mechanisms that managers found effective to argue that the communication employed by resource managers in each phase of the restoration process, in prioritization, implementation, and monitoring, and for garnering broad-based support, shapes the quality of public engagement in natural resources management, which, in turn, can impact the stakeholder, learning, and ecological success of restoration projects. Despite the possible trade-offs and conflicts between social and ecological outcomes, we suggest that managers need to consider their desired social-ecological outcomes and work from the outset to deliberately design mechanisms for communication and public engagement that weave community stakeholders into all phases of restoration projects in sustained and consequential ways.

Citizen science is growing in popularity, but little research addresses participant learning outc... more Citizen science is growing in popularity, but little research addresses participant learning outcomes. We describe the Chicago Area Pollinator Study (CAPS), which relied on citizen scientists to gather information about urban bee diversity and abundance. Based on pre- and post-CAPS participant surveys, we determined that citizen scientists collected an impressive amount of data and enjoyed the experience but did not achieve the educational goals we hoped for. We detail our failure to effectively engage citizen scientists in the learning process, and we make specific recommendations for creating the types of dynamic and mutually successful projects that scientists and citizens deserve.

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature …, 2013

This article, highlighting qualitative data collected from farmers and landowners in the Clear Cr... more This article, highlighting qualitative data collected from farmers and landowners in the Clear Creek watershed in eastern Iowa, offers a situated analysis of the relationship between rhetorical change and landscape change. After chronicling the rise of government-sponsored watershed-based agricultural conservation efforts, I adopt Kenneth Burke’s framing of rhetoric as identification to argue that the watershed, as it is mobilized in contemporary conservation efforts, serves as a potent material and symbolic site for identification. Focusing on my ethnographic research in the Clear Creek watershed in eastern Iowa, I consider how farmers’ and landowners’ identification with the watershed has prompted changes to the landscape for the sake of soil and water conservation. I then consider the implications of this argument for extending theories of the rhetorical landscape, suggesting that rhetorical landscapes contain elements of both the symbolic and the material.

This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and... more This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and ecology. The chapters build a multi-layered understanding of material life by gathering scholars from varied theoretical and critical traditions around the common theme of ecology. Emphasizing relationality, connectedness and context, the ecological orientation we build informs both rhetorical theory and environmentalist interventions. Contributors offer practical-theoretical inquiries into several areas - rhetoric’s cosmologies, the trophe, bioregional rhetoric’s, nuclear colonialism, and more - collectively forging new avenues of communication among scholars in environmental communication, communication studies, and rhetoric and composition. This book aims at inspiring and advancing ecological thinking, demonstrating its value for rhetoric and communication as well as for environmental thought and action.

by Tema Milstein, Aaron Phillips, Geo Takach, Carlos Tarin, Emily Plec, Bridie McGreavy, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Leah Sprain, Karey Harrison, Joy M Hamilton, Stephen Griego, Jeffrey Hoffmann, José Castro-Sotomayor, Maggie Siebert, and Melissa M Parks

Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is... more Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is concerned with ways to help learners effectively navigate and consciously contribute to the communication shaping our environmental present and future. The book brings together international educators working from a variety of perspectives to engage both theory and application. Contributors address how pedagogy can stimulate ecological wakefulness, support diverse and praxis-based ways of learning, and nurture environmental change agents. Additionally, the volume responds to a practical need to increase teaching effectiveness of environmental communication across disciplines by offering a repertoire of useful learning activities and assignments. Altogether, it provides an impetus for reflection upon and enhancement of our own practice as environmental educators, practitioners, and students. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is an essential resource for those working in environmental communication, environmental and sustainability studies, environmental journalism, environmental planning and management, environmental sciences, media studies and cultural studies, as well as communication subfields such as rhetoric, conflict and mediation, and intercultural. The volume is also a valuable resource for environmental communication professionals working with communities and governmental and non-governmental environmental organisations.

Table of Contents

Introducing Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi, & Eric Morgan

Section One: (Re)conceptualizing the Environmental Communication Classroom

Chapter 1. From Negotiation to Advocacy: Linking Two Approaches to Teaching Environmental Rhetoric. Garret Stack and Linda Flower

Chapter 2. Pedagogy as Environmental Communication: The Rhetorical Situations of the Classroom. Jessica Prody

Chapter 3. Environmental Communication Pedagogy: A Survey of the Field. Joy Hamilton and Mark Pedelty

Chapter 4. Breathing Life into Learning: Ecocultural Pedagogy and the Inside-Out Classroom. Tema Milstein, Maryam Alhinai, José Castro, Stephen Griego, Jeff Hoffmann, Melissa M. Parks, Maggie Siebert, and Mariko Thomas.

Section Two: Diverse Practices in Teaching Environmental Communication

Chapter 5. The Role of Social Constructionism as a Reflexive Tool in Environmental Communication Education. Lars Hallgren

Chapter 6. "Deep Impressions": The Promise and Possibilities of Intercultural Experiential Learning for Environmental Literacy and Language Attitudes. Aaron Philips

Chapter 7. Further Afield: Performance Pedagogy, Fieldwork, and Distance Learning in Environmental Communication Courses. Mark Pedelty and Joy Hamilton

Chapter 8. Arts-Based Research in the Pedagogy of Environmental Communication. Geo Takach

Chapter 9. Developing Visual Literacy Skills for Environmental Communication. Antonio Lopez

Chapter 10. Teaching Environmental Journalism Though Distance Education. Gabi Mocatta

Section Three: Transformative Practice: Nurturing Change Agents

Chapter 11. Changing Our Environmental Future: Student Praxis Through Community Inquiry. Eli Typhina

Chapter 12. Storytelling as Action. Mairi Pileggi and Eric Morgan

Chapter 13. Insider Windows in Nepal: A Critical Pedagogy for Empowering Environmental Change Agents. Grady Walker

Chapter 14. Repair Cafés - Reflecting on Materiality and Consumption in Environmental Communication. Sigrid Kannengießer

Chapter 15. Cultivating Pride: Transformative Leadership and Capacity Building in the Rare-UTEP Partnership. Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah D. Upton, Stacey K. Sowards, Kenneth C. C. Yang

Section Four: Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice Toolbox

Chapter 16. "Moral Vision Statement" Writing Assignment Instructions for Students. Carrie P. Freeman

Chapter 17. Environmental Privilege Walk: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Tema Milstein and Stephen Griego

Chapter 18. An Experiential Approach to Environmental Communication. Emily Plec.

Chapter 19. Greening Epideictic Speech. Jake Dionne

Chapter 20. Praxis-based environmental communication training: Innovative activities for building core capacities. Bridie McGreavy, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Leah Sprain, Jessica L. Thompson, Laura Lindenfeld

Chapter 21. Image(ination) and Motivation: Challenging Definitions and Inspiring Environmental Stakeholders. Mary Stroud

Chapter 22. Using Infographics. Antonio Lopez

Chapter 23. News Media Analysis. Carrie P. Freeman

Chapter 24. Newschart Assignment. Karey Harrison

Chapter 25. Speaking for/to/as Nature. Maggie Siebert

Chapter 26. Creating Emotional Proximity with Environment. Maria Clara Valencia

Chapter 27. Growing up with Animals (on screens). Gabi Hadl

Chapter 28. The Student-Run Environmental Communication Blog. Katherine Cruger