"The book will be useful to practitioners in many fields as background on multiple and varied environmental issues and in presenting the diverse requirements involved in decision-making and framing approaches … Highly recommended." — <i>CHOICE</i><br /><br />"The strength of <i>Technical Communication for Environmental Action</i> resides in the diversity of approaches represented by the array of contributors. Its timely publication contributes to the scholarship on pressing environmental issues." — Lisa L. Phillips, Texas Tech University
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work—which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication—this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action.SUNY Press has collaborated with Knowledge Unlatched to unlock KU Focus Collection titles. The Knowledge Unlatched titles have been made open access through libraries coming together to crowd fund the publication cost. Each monograph has been released as open access making the eBook freely available to readers worldwide. Discover more about the Knowledge Unlatched program here: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8482
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This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSean D. Williams1. When the Sound Is Frozen: Extracting Climate Data from Inuit NarrativesCana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq2. Boundary Waters: Deliberative Experience Design for Environmental Decision MakingDaniel Card3. In Defense of a Greenspace: Students Discover Agency in the Practice of Community-Engaged Technical CommunicationBob Hyland4. Flood Insurance Rate Maps as Communicative Sites of Pragmatic Environmental ActionDaniel P. Richards5. Collaborating for Clean Air: Virtue Ethics and the Cultivation of Transformational Service-Learning PartnershipsLauren E. Cagle and Roberta Burnes6. The Narrative of Silent Stakeholders: Reframing Local Environmental Communications to Include Global Human ImpactsBeth Shirley7. Resilient Farmland: The Role of Technical CommunicatorsSara B. Parks and Lee S. Tesdell8. Writing for Clients, Writing for Change: Proposals, Persuasion, and Problem Solving in the Technical Writing ClassroomMonika A. Smith9. Health in the Shale Fields: Technical Communication and Environmental Health RisksBarbara George10. Participatory Policy: Enacting Technical Communication for a Shared Water FutureJosephine Walwema11. Rhino Crash: Teaching Science, Medical, and Environmental Writing for Social ActionMichelle Hall KellsEpilogue: Right Relation with the Whole World: Creating a Richer Polyvocality for Environmental Technical CommunicationCaroline Gottschalk DruschkeContributors Index
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"The book will be useful to practitioners in many fields as background on multiple and varied environmental issues and in presenting the diverse requirements involved in decision-making and framing approaches … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"The strength of Technical Communication for Environmental Action resides in the diversity of approaches represented by the array of contributors. Its timely publication contributes to the scholarship on pressing environmental issues." — Lisa L. Phillips, Texas Tech University
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ISBN
9781438491288
Publisert
2023-07-02
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State University of New York Press
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227 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
338
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