News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development 1st ed. 2018 Edition

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• ISBN 10: 3319705091
• ISBN 13: 9783319705095
• Author: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Challenges in the Reporting of Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean
2. Part I. North America and the Caribbean
3. 2. The News Media and Environmental Challenges in Mexico: The Structural Deficits in the Coverage and Reporting by the Press
4. 3. Comparing Cuban and South Florida Spanish-Language Media Coverage of Sea-Level Rise
5. Part II. The Andes and the Amazon Regions
6. 4. Environmental Journalism in Brazil: History, Characteristics, and Framing of Disasters
7. 5. Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources, Old Media–State Tensions and Practices
8. 6. Environmental Journalism in Colombia: An Analysis of Two Specialized Environmental Magazines
9. 7. The Challenges for Environmental Reporting in Peru: Coverage of Small-Scale Mining in Peruvian Newspapers
10. Part III. Southern South America
11. 8. Environmental Journalism in Argentina
12. 9. The Future of Environmental Communication and Journalism in Latin America and the Car

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