Climate Change Denial and Public Relations Strategic communication and interest groups in climate inaction

• Main Authors: Almiron, Núria, Xifra, Jordi
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research
• Subjects: Business; Business & Economics; Business and Management; Climate change; climate change advocacy; climate change inaction; Climate denial; Climatic changes; Climatic changes > Social aspects; Communication Ethics; Communication studies; Critical Management Studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Environmental Communication; Environmental economics; Environmental Politics; ethics; Global warming; Global Warming & Climate Change; Global warming > Social aspects; human overpopulation taboo; Interdisciplinary studies; Interest groups; Lobbying; Management & auxiliary services; Non-profitmaking organizations; Nonfiction; nuclear denial; Ownership and organization of enterprises; Political Communication; Pollution and threats to the environment; Public Relations; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Sales and marketing; Science; Strategic communication; The environment; Telic Environmentalism; Van De Graaff; Climate Change Advocacy; Tank Networks; Heartland Institute; Climate Change Denial; Nuclear Power; NBC News; Weber Shandwick; Climate Contrarian; WS; Climate Science Center; CCS Policy; Greenpeace USA; State Secretary; Smaller Grey Dots; EU Lobby; Lobbying Consultancies; Energy Policy; EU Transparency Register; Denial Machine; Climate Change; American Chemical Society; USA Today; Gazprom Neft
• ISBN: 1351121782; 9781351121781; 9780815358831; 0815358830; 9780367785871; 0367785870; 1351121790; 9781351121798; 1351121774; 9781351121774
• DOI: 10.4324/9781351121798

This is the first book on climate change denial and lobbying that combines the ideology of denial and the role of anthropocentrism in the study of interest groups and communication strategy. Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction is a critical approach to climate change denial from a strategic communication perspective. The book aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how strategic communication by interest groups is contributing to climate change inaction. It does this from a multidisciplinary perspective that expands the usual approach of climate change denialism and introduces a critical reflection on the roots of the problem, including the ethics of the denialist ideology and the rhetoric and role of climate change advocacy. Topics addressed include the power of persuasive narratives and discourses constructed to support climate inaction by lobbies and think tanks, the dominant human supremacist view and the patriarchal roots of denialists and advocates of climate change alike, the knowledge coalitions of the climate think tank networks, the denial strategies related to climate change of the nuclear, oil, and agrifood lobbies, the role of public relations firms, the anthropocentric roots of public relations, taboo topics such as human overpopulation and meat-eating, and the technological myth. This unique volume is recommended reading for students and scholars of communication and public relations.