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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"environmental communication"”.
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Gender Justice in Environmental Communication: Exploring the Impact of Message Framing
… and norms embedded in Western society shape environmental communication, requiring its study through a gendered lens. This study explored how individuals perceived four gendered messages about a program regarding a climate action initiative. Elicitation interviews revealed themes of trust and …
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Exploring environmental communication : discussing systems concepts with communicators in Banff National Park
… concepts to a purposely-selected sample of environmental communicators within Banff National Park. Participants’ individual reflections and collective discussions of the systems concepts led them to develop an expanded understanding of what constitutes effective environmental communication. …
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Heating Up the Conversation on Climate Change Storytelling in Canada
The urgency for storytelling as an environmental communication and climate justice strategy is becoming clearer and louder as the climate crisis unfolds disastrously around the world. This qualitative study explored how eleven storytellers in Canada are responding to this need and how …
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An Analysis of Environmental Advertising Frames from 1990 to 2010
Recent calls in environmental communication literature suggest researchers should understand the relationships between media message content, message construction, and audience effects. This thesis analyzed environmental advertising frames over time to inform strategic environmental communication …
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Constructing, Consuming, and Complicating the Human-Nature Binary: Communication Practices in Forest Environmental Education
… conversations within the field of communication to examine environmental meaning systems and communication practices in the context of forest environmental education. Due to concerns over children's environmental alienation, there has been a continued push toward place-based …
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Efficacy of communication strategies employed by the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve to promote environmental awareness and sustainability
Communication plays an important role in fostering environmental awareness and sustainable behaviour in biosphere reserves. Existing studies emphasise the importance of communication in biosphere reserves. However, these studies often lack context-specific analysis. The communication strategies …
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How will the use of high fidelity simulation in a North American paramedic curriculum contribute to high quality teaching and learning?
… environment (ORPPE), which includes, safety, environmental, communication, and patient access. Participants also feel that additional training is required before they can feel comfortable conducting HFS exercises.
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ORGANIC IS MORE OF AN AMERICAN TERM--WE ARE TRADITIONAL FARMERS': DISCOURSES OF PLACE-BASED ORGANIC FARMING, COMMUNITY, HERITAGE, AND SUSTAINABILITY
… cultural practices. The study draws on environmental communication theories, the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning, and Actor Network Theory to construct a communication-based framework through which to view farmers stories about sustainability and visions for the future of …
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How Does VR Enhance or Detract from the Value of Interactive Visualization Tools for Planning and Stakeholder Engagement?
… the promise of immersive visualization for environmental communication and participatory planning purposes.
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What happens when we walk? Exploring how walking in nature influences childhood well-being
… Insights from the fields of health promotion and environmental communication were employed to ensure research findings were communicated in ways other educators may use in their own school contexts including an adapted framework of indicators specifically addressing weekly walks.
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Television, mass media, and environmental cultivation: a study of private forest landowners in Delaware
… in Delaware to extend previous studies into “environmental cultivation,” a research perspective that explores the theoretical link between television exposure and potential differences in the ecological worldviews of lighter versus heavier viewers. The study also sought to assess possible …
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Factors That Impact a Child on the Autism Spectrum in the General Education Classroom
… intervention with preschool students as well as environmental, communication, and social supports. Educators from general and special education were interviewed for their ideas and experiences in working with this population. Their information was analyzed and summarized to form a list of …
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Identity, Intergroup Relationships, and Environmental Conflict
… for addressing identity-related barriers to environmental problem-solving through the lens of two social-psychological theories: self-affirmation theory and moral foundations theory. Through one theoretical review, two online experiments and one in-lab experiment I explore, integrate and test …
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Framing Environmental Messages: Examining Audience Response to Humor, Shock, and Emotional Treatments
… study was to examine individual reactions to environmental messages based on three message frames. The frames include shock or fear, humor, and emotional frames. The intent of the study was to document, through the use of pre- and post-questionnaires, individuals' reactions to the three types …
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The Interaction between Personal and Company Environmental Values and Their Influence on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in Hospitality Sector Workplace: A Case Study of An International Hotel Company
… and thus there is a growing interest in pro-environmental behaviours. Thus, this has become an increasingly important topic for academics and practitioners in the hospitality sector. Over recent years, theoretical pro-environmental behaviour models have been tested in domestic, public and …
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Crafting and delivering effective energy and water conservation messages: The role of forceful language and source features in psychological reactance
A considerable portion of environmental damage is rooted in unsustainable behavior (Schultz, 2014), which presents opportunities for behavioral and social scientific study. The negative environmental and health outcomes of energy emissions (Asensio & Delmas, 2015) and water scarcity (Mazdiyasni & …
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A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold
… one of the twentieth centurys most versatile environmental communicators. Drawing on scholarship in environmental rhetoric, rhetorical genre theory, citizenship theory and ecofeminism, I argue that throughout his career Leopold offered evolving rhetorical versions of himself as ideals of …
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Aplinkosauginė informacija Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje ir jos įtaka pilietinės visuomenės plėtotei /
… how to improve their environment is by covering environmental topics in the Media. Therefore, the objective of this final thesis is to research how environmental information makes the impact on our society. The subject of research is: environmental information in daily Lithuanian newspapers …
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Whose Honey, Whose Hive?: Genre and Rhetorical Agency in the U.S. Colony Collapse Disorder
… analyzes the rhetoric surrounding the environmental crisis of the honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder, commonly known as CCD. Since 2007, the United States has lost on average a third of its honey bee colonies each year to CCD. The crisis has potentially serious environmental …
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