Science in Fiction: A Brief Look at the Potential of Communicating Climate Change through the Novel
Tabak explores the potential of novels for communicating about climate change.
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Let's Say It in Their Own Words
Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.
A Level Playing Field, or the Hope for Science as a Common Ground
Oomen argues that science has an important role in climate communication as a common ground and honest broker.
Decentering Science in Climate Communication
Walsh argues that science should be decentered in communicating about climate change.
Environmental Writing in Times of Terrorism: The Peruvian Journalist Bárbara D’Achille
Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 10
"Avian Bedlam: Toward a Biosemiosis of Troubled Parrots"
Jean M. Langford explores different modes of interspecies communications at an urban parrot sanctuary, suggesting that humans can alter their interactions to ease parrots’ distress.
"Military Cetology"
Considering the role of sound in shifting conceptions of the ocean, Ritts and Shiga explore how the US Navy mimicked whale, dolphin, and popoise communication techniques during the Cold War.
"Changes in Media Portrayal of Human-wildlife Conflict During Successive Fatal Shark Bites"
Etienne Sabatier and Charlie Huveneers examine media portrayals of human-shark encounters between 2011 and 2013 in the state of Western Australia, arguing that negative framing by media feeds public anxiety.
"On the Plausibility of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds: A Cognitive-Semiotic Assessment of fi· fc · L"
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, David Dunér scrutinizes the underlying suppositions involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) research, particularly the last three factors of the Drake equation.
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.