Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News and Public Policy (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media)

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Synopsis
Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in practical terms. Extinction isn’t new. However, the pace of extinction is accelerating globally. The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies more than 26,000 species as threatened. The causes are many, including climate change, overdevelopment, human exploitation, disease, overhunting, habitat destruction, and predators. The willingness and the ability of ordinary people, governments, scientists, nongovernmental organizations, and businesses to slow this deeply disturbing acceleration are uncertain. Meanwhile, researchers around the world are laboring to better understand and communicate the possibility and implications of extinctions and to discover effective tools and public policies to combat the threats to species survival. This book presents a history of news coverage of endangered species around the world, examining how and why journalists and other communicators wrote what they did, how attitudes have changed, and why they have changed. It draws on the latest research by chapter authors who are a mix of social scientists, communication experts, and natural scientists. Each chapter includes a mass media and/or cultural aspect. This book will be essential reading for students, natural resource managers, government officials, environmental activists, and academics interested in conservation and biodiversity, environmental communication and journalism, and public policy.
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
278 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000425680
Related ISBNs:
9780367486211, 9781032045443, 9781003041955
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Eric Freedman, Sara Shipley Hiles and David B. Sachsman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Animals, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Eric Freedman
Edited by:
Sara Shipley Hiles
Edited by:
David B. Sachsman

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