News

En tjej med långt, flätat regnbågsfärgat näshår som åker tunnelbana.

Näshår som filtrerar luftföroreningar – ironisk kampanj i Kina fick spridning

En miljökampanj i Kina väckte uppmärksamhet genom att visa en framtid där näshår vuxit sig långt för att skydda mot luftföroreningar. I en ny studie, som analyserar kampanjens framgång, visar forskare hur ironi kan användas som ett verktyg för att lyckas med miljökommunikation.

New paper: Citizens as consumers: styles of reasoning about agricultural biotechnologies and publics

Mistra Environmental Communication presents at the grand seminar: Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication

Annual events

The Environmental Communication Day is aimed at those who in one way or another use communication for sustainability in their practice in the public and private sectors, NGOs, other organisations and civil society.

Mistra Environmental Communication Programme Meeting include some innovative activities to share and summarise insights from the work to date.

Commentary

Read about our collaborators’ latest thoughts.​

"Spotlight on: Focus area Knowledge"

“Spotlight on” is a feature that introduces new work done by Mistra Environmental Communication researchers, outlining the key issues and challenges explored, and their societal relevance to sustainability transitions. This month we put spotlight on the focus area “The constitution of knowledge and truth in environmental communication “ led by professor Anke Fischer. This focus area explores knowledge, emotions and values in the discussion of environmental issues, and how they affect governance practices.
Anke Fischer

"Spotlight on: focus area Transformation"

“Spotlight on” is a feature that introduces new work done by Mistra Environmental Communication researchers, outlining the key issues and challenges explored, and their societal relevance to sustainability transitions. In this feature, we get to know more about the focus area “Co-creating transformations through environmental communication” led by researcher Sara Holmgren. This focus area centers around emerging, locally anchored land-use narratives as communicative acts that seek to reconnect people and nature to foster meaningful and responsible practices.
Sara Holmgren

"Spotlight on Focus area: Information cultures, data and technology in environmental communication"

In our “Spotlight on” feature, we introduce new work done by Mistra Environmental Communication researchers, outlining the key issues and challenges explored, and their societal relevance to sustainability transitions.
Jutta Haider

"Renewed Passion and Broader Perspectives: My Time as a Communicator-in-Residence"

During October and November 2023, I had the honour of being part of the Mistra Environmental Communication (Mistra EC) programme as a Communicator-in-Residence. What’s that? Well, neither the programme nor I really knew before.
Jenny Hansson

"Reflections on four years of Mistra Environmental Communication"

After four years of research, exploration, and collaboration, the first phase of MISTRA Environmental Communication – Reframing communication for sustainability, with its core of researchers from seven universities in four countries, associated partners from even more countries and universities, and key societal partners, is coming to an end. The end of such a process lends itself to taking a step back and reflecting on where we find ourselves today, four years later. What have we learned? Have we met the goals we set for these first years? Has the programme made the kind of contribution we envisaged, to research and to fields of practice outside academia?
Robert Österbergh

"Co-creation for ecosystem restoration – a reflection from Mosquitia"

Arriving on the Misquito coast in eastern Honduras provides a sobering reminder of the tremendous challenge of healing ecosystems that lie ahead of us. The once forest-covered area has largely lost its trees, and the continuous fires ensure they won’t return anytime soon. As a result, the ecosystem in parts of La Mosquitia is moving from forest to grassland.
Max Whitman