Mapping Environmental Risk and Energy Communication

Ecoculture in Energy Risk

Barbara George

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Lexington Books
05 February 2025

Communication studies; Applied ecology

Series: Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene

As the rise of the Anthropocene has led to serious deliberation about how energy is best produced and distributed in a world pressured by both the depletion of natural resources and global climate change, advances in technology have enabled new systems of extracting energy like High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF), commonly known as fracking, that complicate these discussions. In this book, Barbara George explores how citizens impacted by HVHF tell stories about environmental risks, the conflict they experience in attempting to articulate these risks, and the hope for a post-carbon future in which HVHF is banned. Deep ideologies linked to history, coal, and industry permeate areas like the Rust Belt and Appalachia and, George argues, create “frames” that encourage and advocate for HVHF and make it difficult for publics in these locales to find a platform to tell their stories in a meaningful way. This book offers a case study of three communities in the United States – New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio – and how each community frames HVHF environmental and health risks differently based on their differing sociocultural histories. Scholars of communication, environmental studies, history, and sociology may find this book of particular interest.

By: Barbara George
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781666926484
ISBN 10: 1666926485
Series: Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 05 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 Conflict: Stories of Language, Identity, Place, and Environmental Risk Practice Chapter 2 Frames: Stories of Environmental Regulatory Bodies and Attempts to Deliberate About Risk Chapter 3 - Linguistic Frames: Stories from Ohio and Pennsylvania and the difficulty of revealing environmental risk Chapter 4: Linguistic Frames: Stories of environmental activism, New York, changing policy and practice Ch. 5 Possibilities for Reframing Energy discourse, Positive Discourse Analysis

Barbara George is lecturer of writing and communication at Carnegie Mellon University.

Reviews for Mapping Environmental Risk and Energy Communication: Ecoculture in Energy Risk

For those interested in literacy studies at intersection with environmental risk communication, George’s book offers critical insights into how place-based responses to environmental risks posed by the fracking industry work in tandem with ideological frameworks circulating in a given region. Using intersectional feminist principles, George adds to our understanding of how procedural justice and community-based literacies can aid public deliberation and representation of environmental risk that activists and policymakers can use to better evaluate and mitigate environmental risk. * Lisa L. Phillips, Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University, USA *