Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Communication; Founder and immediate-past Chair of the IAMCR Group on Environment, Science and Risk Communication; Founding member, and Executive Board Member and Secretary 2011-2015, of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA).

The book draws on the advances in the field of environmental communication research to show the increasing complexity of environmental communication and to stress the persistent urgency of analysing and understanding how communication about the environment is being influenced and manipulated.

List of boxes List of exercises Preface to Routledge Introductions to Environment Series Preface to the Second Edition Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Communication and the construction of environmental issues Chapter 3: Making claims and managing news about the environment Chapter 4: The environment as news: news values, news media and journalistic practices Chapter 5: Popular culture, nature and environmental issues Chapter 6: Selling 'nature/the natural': Advertising, nature, national identity, nostalgia and the environmental image Chapter 7: Media, publics, politics and environmental issues Chapter 8: Environment, media and communication - looking back, looking forward Glossary References Index