Vår forskning
Miljökommunikation är ett tvärvetenskapligt forskningsfält med kopplingar till bland annat kommunikationsvetenskap, ekologi, kulturgeografi, statsvetenskap, sociologi och hållbarhetsvetenskap. Nedan kan du läsa om våra utgångspunkter, fokusområden och syntesprojekt som är centrala för att omformulera kommunikation för hållbarhet.
We work from five points of departure:
Environmental communication shapes the world and our understanding of it.
When we communicate about the natural world and environmental issues, we don’t just describe them – we shape how we understand them. What we say, and how we say it, constitutes reality.
Environmental communication is shaped by who participates and in what way.
It is multilateral, entailing a wide range of communicative interactions: within individuals, between people, and within and between groups. It is also multimodal, encompassing different communication settings and ways of communicating (e.g. face to face, public debate, social media), each with its own forms, norms and possibilities for understanding, expressing and negotiating environmental concerns and human/nature relations.
Sustainability transformations are driven by the interplay of structure and agency.
Studying the dynamic interplay between societal patterns, such as laws and norms, and individual and collective actions, helps us see how and why change happens – and why not.
Environmental communication is a field of discursive struggle.
Sustainability transformations are deeply contested and characterised by conflicting understandings and beliefs. The language and discourses used both reflect and shape how different groups understand the environment and environmental issues.
Power is inherent to environmental communication.
While power is not always apparent in environmental communication, it is important to always critically analyse how power relations shape and are shaped by environmental communication: Whose voices are heard and whose are not? Whose knowledge counts? How do broader power structures enable and constrain sustainability transformations?
Från information till transformation
Programmet består av fem fokusområden, som alla erbjuder en kritisk utsiktspunkt för att förstå och hantera hållbarhetsutmaningar.
Fokusområde 1
Informationskulturer, data och teknik inom miljökommunikation

Fokusområde 2
Processer för meningsskapande inom miljökommunikation

Fokusområde 4
Styrning, samverkan och motstånd inom miljökommunikation

Syntes
Syntes innefattar aktiviteter och projekt som kopplar samman teman, teorier och personer från hela programmet. Dessa projekt behandlar aktuella samhällsfrågor,
framväxande frågor inom programmet och det bredare forskningsfältet för miljökommunikation.
C in EC
Communication in Environmental Communication

E in EC
Environment in Environmental Communication

Impact node
The Impact node

NiLab
The Nature Interpretation Lab

Textbook
The Textbook - A Critical Introduction to Environmental Communication

Understanding environmental communication
We want to mainstream a broader understanding that takes into account the different roles of and interactions between actors in communication, and that includes, for example, artists, land users and the wider public.
Läs mer om programmets resultat i våra publikationer
Under publikationer hittar du rapporter, filmer, artiklar och annat som arbetet inom Mistra Environmental Communication har resulterat i.