This volume aims to improve our understanding of culturally bounded rationalities across racial and ethnic groups facing environmental challenges, and will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of environmental communication.

Bruno Takahashi is Research Director and Associate Professor at the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University, USA.

Sonny Rosenthal is Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Introduction Bruno Takahashi and Sonny Rosenthal

1. Models for Environmental Communication for Unique Populations: Cases from the Field Maria Knight Lapinski, Kami Silk, Rain Wuyu Liu, and Daniel Totzkay


2. The Vanishing Racial Divide: The Dynamics of Race and Socioeconomic Class in Environmental Risk Communication B.F. Battistoli



3. Voices in the Garden: Designing Social Change at the Intersection of Green Radicalism and Participatory Media Patrick D. Murphy and Clemencia Rodríguez


4. Interrogating metaphors of sustainability: Laying the framework for a more inclusive discussion of the development of the Alberta oil sands for Indigenous groups Amanda Williams


5. "So that the environment looks clean": Cultural values and environmental communication in a Nicaraguan community Jessica Love-Nichols


6. Women Farmers' Voices on Climate Change Adaptation in India Jagadish Thaker and Mohan J. Dutta