Nature's "Crisis Disciplines": Does Environmental Communication Have an Ethical Duty?

被引:156
作者
Cox, Robert [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ N Carolina, Dept Commun Studies, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
来源
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION-A JOURNAL OF NATURE AND CULTURE | 2007年 / 1卷 / 01期
关键词
Conservation Biology; Crisis; Crisis Discipline; Environmental Communication; Ethical Duty;
D O I
10.1080/17524030701333948
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This essay proposes a heuristic conservation between the emerging field of environmental communication and the "crisis discipline'' of conservation biology in order to generate a set of ethical postulates for research, teaching, and professional consultation. To the extent that social/symbolic representations of "environment'' embody interested orientations, such discourses potentially constrain and/or enable societal responses to environmental signals, including signs of ecological crises. The essay argues that, implicit in this and other functional premises, lies a principal ethical duty of environmental communication: the obligation to enhance the ability of society to respond appropriately to environmental signals relevant to the well-being of both human communities and natural biological systems.
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