Week 9 part 2 : Environnemental communication

Question 1

Cox : What is environnemental communication ?

Answer 1

“the pragmatic and constitutive vehicle for our understanding of the environment as well as our relationships to the natural world; it is the symbolic medium that we use in constructing environmental problems and in negotiating society’s different responses to them.”

(Cox 2012, p. 19)

Question 2

Cox : what are the two functions of environnemental communication ?

Answer 2

Environmental communication is pragmatic.

Environmental communication is constitutive.

Question 3

What does constitutive mean ?

Answer 3

“By constitutive, I mean that our communication about nature also helps us construct or compose representations of nature and environmental problems as subjects for our understanding.” (pg 19)