Environmental Risks and the Media

Name: Environmental Risks and the Media
Brand: ROUTLEDGE
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By: Barbara Adam (Editor), Stuart Allan (Editor), Cynthia Carter (Editor)

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Hardcover | 11 November 1999 | Edition Number 1

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294 Pages

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Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks - from the BSE or 'mad cow' crisis to global climate change - are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters, as well as 'everyday' hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. How do the media frame 'expert', 'counter-expert' and 'lay public' definitions of environmental risk? What role do environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace or 'eco-warriors' and 'green guerrillas' play in shaping what gets covered and how? Does the media emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting exacerbate the public tendency to overestimate sudden and violent risks and underestimate chronic long-term ones? Barbara Adam, Cardiff University, Wales Stuart Allan, University of the West of England, Bristol Alison Anderson, University of Plymouth, Plymouth Cynthia Carter, Cardiff U

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"A timely and important book." -Ulrich Beck, University of Munich

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