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    A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism

    A Strategic Nature by Aronczyk, Melissa; Espinoza, Maria I.;

    Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism

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    Short description:

    In A Strategic Nature, Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza show how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years. More than spin or misinformation, they argue, PR is a social and political force that shapes how we understand and address the environmental crises we now face.

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    A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years.

    In A Strategic Nature, Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza examine public relations as a social and political force that shapes both our understanding of the environmental crises we now face and our responses to them. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnography, and archival research, Aronczyk and Espinoza document the evolution of PR techniques to control public perception of the environment since the beginning of the twentieth century. More than spin or misinformation, PR affects how institutions and individuals conceptualize environmental problems -- from conservation to coal mining to carbon credits. Revealing the linkages of professional strategists, information politics, and environmental standards, A Strategic Nature shows how public relations restricts alternative paths to a sustainable climate future.

    Diverse and sometimes contending perspectives inform the book's seven chapters, each one examining a significant historical moment in the development of the American environmental movement from the early 20th century to the present.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Figures and Tables
    List of Abbreviations
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction: Public Relations and Its Problems
    1. Seeing Like a Publicist: How the Environment became an Issue
    2. Bringing the Outside In: Managing Industry's "External Environment"
    3. Environment, Energy, Economy: The Campaign for Balance
    4. PR for the Public Interest: The Rule of Reason and the Hazards of Environmental Consensus
    5. Sustainable Communication™: Green PR and the Export of Corporate Environmentalism
    6. The Climate of Publicity: Climate Advocates and the Compromise of PR
    7. "Shared Value": Promoting Climate Change for Data Worlds
    Conclusion: We're Supposed to Be Engaging
    Notes
    References
    Appendix 1. Interviews and Observation Sites
    Appendix 2. E. Bruce Harrison Company, List of Clients, 1973-1997
    Index

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