Environmental Communication Questions and Answers

Care Discipline Ans- involves research devoted to unearthing human and nonhuman interconnections, interdependence, biodiversity, and system limits; we have a duty not only to prevent harm but to honor the people, places, and nonhuman species with which we share our world Civil society Ans- citizens or residents of a community, growing out of families and the private sphere constitutive Ans- invites a particular perspective, evokes certain beliefs and feelings (and not others), fosters particular ways of relating to others, and thus creates palpable feelings that may move us crisis discipline Ans- The ethical duty of researchers, in the face of looming crises, to offer recommendations to address the worsening situation, even with imperfect knowledge. environmental communication Ans- The pragmatic and constitutive modes of expression- the naming, shaping, orienting, and negotiating- of our ecological relationships in the world, including those with nonhuman systems, elements, and species. pragmatic Ans- environmental com. consists of verbal and nonverbal modes of interaction that convey an instrumental purpose; it greets, informs, demands, promises, requests, educates, alerts, persuades, rejects, and more symbolic actio