Leadership and the Construction of Environmental Concern

This book emerges from a three-year Australian Research Council-funded study that asks how the formation and (d)evolution of leadership has impacted on public environmental debate. To do this, it draws on extensive news text analysis and public opinion survey data, as well as qualitative interviews with Australian and international movement actors. The volume investigates environmental leadership in a period of rapid political and media change by examining the nature, variety and scope; specifically, how it is understood and generated and how it changes over time. For the first time, the interconnected roles of leaders and media in constructing environmental issues are researched together, providing new evidence-based understandings of the people and processes driving public debate on environmental futures.

Explores the way organizational and movement leadership influences the public articulation and negotiation of the pressing threats and conflict surrounding the damaged environment and local communities/individuals Multidisciplinary as well as topical, the book will appeal to social sciences and media studies scholars, including honours and research higher degree candidates, and will be of interest to those preparing and teaching undergraduate courses in environmental politics and communications The three-decade time span of the research and the inclusion of personal reflections from environmentalists will provide insights for historians and anthropologists, and all those investigating or interested in the public and political negotiation of shared environmental futures Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur

Bruce Tranter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Libby Lester is Professor of Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Lyn McGaurr is a post-doctoral Research Associate in Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Contenu

1. Environmental Leadership in Transition, Profile: Alec Marr.- 2. Who Cares About Climate Change, Profile: Dan Spencer.- 3. Environmental Concerns and the Media, Profile: Phillip Toyne.- 4. Locking the Gate on Coal and Gas, Profile: Chloe Aldenhoven.- 5. Indigenous Engagement: Three Case Studies, Profile: Anne Poelina.- 6.The New Media Politics of Environmental Leadership, Profile: Warrick Jordan.