This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics.

Pressure politics; the environmental lobby; identity, ideology and contemporary collective action; the social construction of the environment; news production - personal and professional values; contested ground - news-sources and the media; mediating the environment; consuming lifestyles.