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

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 i...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- About the editors -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Ethics and anthropocentrism in climate change denial and public relations -- 1 Rethinking the ethical challenge in climate change lobbying: a discussion of ideological denial -- 2 The anthropocentric roots of public relations: a (pre)historical approach and ontological consideration -- 3 An ecofeminist analysis of worldviews and climate change denial -- 4 Why environmentalism cannot beat denialism: an antispeciesist approach to the ethics of climate change -- 5 The elephant in the room: the role of interest groups in creating and sustaining the population taboo -- Part II Theorizing the story line of climate change denial -- 6 Talking about climate change: the power of narratives -- 7 Climate change countermovement organizations and media attention in the United States -- 8 Think tank networks and the knowledge-interest nexus: the case of climate change -- Part III Lobbying for denial in climate change -- 9 The climate smokescreen: the public relations consultancies working to obstruct greenhouse gas emissions reductions in Europe - a critical approach -- 10 "Cowgate": meat eating and climate change denial -- 11 "This nagging worry about the carbon dioxide issue": nuclear denial and the nuclear renaissance campaign -- Part IV Advocating against climate change denial -- 12 Fighting climate change denial in the United States -- 13 A wicked systems approach to climate change advocacy -- Index