Environment, Science and Risk Communication

The objective of this Working Group is to provide a forum at IAMCR conferences for scholars researching in the field of media and communication on ‘Environmental Issues, Science and Risk’ to present and discuss their research. A second objective is to provide a focal point - through the visibility afforded via IAMCR for contact and networking among scholars interested in this sub-field of media and communication research.

Chair: Anders Hansen [Contact]
Vice-Chair: Pieter Maeseele [Contact]

This Working Group specialises in research on media and public understanding of science and environment issues; science and health-related media panics; science and environmental journalism; media roles in global environmental controversy; the political uses or constructions of nature; and the roles of pressure groups, new media and activism with respect to science and environment issues. Because risk perceptions vary culturally and within specific communities, this working group is located under this theme.

Members of the Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group.

IAMCR 2012 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffra The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites submissions of abstracts for papers for the 2012 IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.

The conference will be held under the general theme, 'South-North Conversations'. The theme reflects the asymmetry of global communication flows, but without implying the negatives that usually accompany discussions of the 'digital divide'. The theme also calls for balanced and empowering narratives that do not regard those in ‘the South’ as victims primarily in need of handouts from the more affluent. The general conference theme is thus highly relevant to the increasingly global communication themes and concerns that are central to the Environment, Science and Risk Communication Group.

Istanbul 2011 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group Call for Papers

The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2011 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 13-17 July 2011.

Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the conference theme 'Cities, Creativity, Connectivity' will be particularly welcome.

Braga 2010 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group Call for Papers

braga_2010 The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.

Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the conference theme 'Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change' will be particularly welcome.

Mexico 2009 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group Call for Papers

The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2009 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, July 21-24, 2009.

Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the conference theme ‘Human Rights and Communication' will be particularly welcome.

Stockholm 2008 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group Call for Papers

Stockholm 2008 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group Call for Papers EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2008 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, July 20-25, 2008.

Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the conference theme 'Media and Global Divides' will be particularly welcome.

Paris 2007 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group Call for Papers

The Environmental Issues, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2007 IAMCR Conference in Paris (23-25 July).

Following the well attended, lively and successful sessions of the Environmental Issues, Science and Risk Communication Working Group at the IAMCR Conferences in Budapest (2001), Barcelona (2002), Porto Alegre (2004) and Cairo (2006), it is a pleasure to be able to announce that space has been secured for this Group to be active also in this year's 50th Anniversary Conference in Paris.

IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research