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News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development

Palgrave Macmillan

Editors:

  1. Bruno Takahashi

    1. School of Journalism and Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

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  2. Juliet Pinto

    1. Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

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  3. Manuel Chavez

    1. Journalism and Latin American Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

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  4. Mercedes Vigón

    1. Department of Journalism, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA

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  • First comprehensive volume on media and the environment in Latin America

  • Contributes to the broadening and internationalization of the scholarly work in environmental communication

  • Integration of disciplinary, methodological, cultural, and epistemological approaches in the examination of media issues in Latin America

  • A resource for instructors teaching a variety of courses focused on news media or Latin America, including courses in journalism, sociology, cultural studies, communication, Latin American studies, and international studies, among others

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Challenges in the Reporting of Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Mercedes Vigón, Manuel Chavez
    Pages 1-15

  3. North America and the Caribbean

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. The News Media and Environmental Challenges in Mexico: The Structural Deficits in the Coverage and Reporting by the Press

      • Manuel Chavez, Mireya Marquez, Denisse J. Flores, Manuel A. Guerrero
      Pages 19-46

  4. The Andes and the Amazon Regions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    3. Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources, Old Media–State Tensions and Practices

      • Mercedes Vigón, Juliet Pinto, Lilliam Martínez-Bustos
      Pages 91-112

  5. Southern South America

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Environmental Journalism in Argentina

      • María Teresa Mercado-Sáez, Fermín Koop
      Pages 159-176

    3. The Future of Environmental Communication and Journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean

      • Juliet Pinto, Mercedes Vigón, Manuel Chavez, Bruno Takahashi
      Pages 177-185

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 187-191
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About this book

This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society about the importance of strategic communication and the news media in informing current societal and policy discussions about environmental issues. With this in mind, this volume explores the content of reporting as well as the structural and individual contests faced by media organizations and journalists, with a focus on the very unique political, social, cultural and environmental conditions that affect the countries individually. The book provides a survey of the most relevant and current environmental issues that have attracted public attention across the region and within countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the first part of the 21st century.

This volume will be of interest to students, instructors and researchers interested in Latin America and the Caribbean, media and the environment.
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Keywords

  • Environmental Communication
  • Environmental Issues
  • Environmental Policy
  • Latin America
  • News Media Organizations
  • Environmental Challenges
  • Global, Regional and Local
  • Journalists
  • Political, Social, Cultural and Environmental Conditions
  • IECA
  • NCA
  • ICA
  • AEJMC
  • media research
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Journalism and Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Bruno Takahashi

  • Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

    Juliet Pinto

  • Journalism and Latin American Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Manuel Chavez

  • Department of Journalism, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA

    Mercedes Vigón

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About the editors

Bruno Takahashi is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, USA.

Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.

Manuel Chavez is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, USA.

Mercedes Vigón is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.

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