Focus areas for second program period 2024-2027
Mistra Environmental Communication addresses five major fields of environmental communication practice. Additionally, cross-cutting strands of work integrate insights across focus areas.
Our Focus areas
Five major fields of environmental communication practice
Focus area 1 – Information
Information cultures, data and technology in environmental communication
In this focus area, researchers from information studies, communication studies, ecology and environmental social science explore how information technologies, data and society shape environmental meaning-making.
Jutta Haider
Focus area 2 – Meaning-making
Processes of meaning-making in environmental communication
Focus area 2 – Meaning-making sets emotions at the heart, looking into the relation between people’s environmental experiences and individual and social processes of meaning-making with the objective to understand emotions in relation to climate change and biodiversity loss.
Maria Johansson
Focus area 3 – Knowledge
The constitution of knowledge and truth in environmental communication
Focus area 3 – knowledge starts from the observation that the role of scientific knowledge in decision-making about environmental issues is contested in manifold ways and from multiple directions.
Anke Fischer
Focus area 4 – Governance
Governance, collaboration and resistance in environmental communication
Martin Westin
Focus area 5 – Transformation
Co-creating transformations through environmental communication
What visions and principles of working together can help foster the engagement, innovation and action needed to realize sustainability transformations? This question is in focus in our research. We explore the co-creation of stories and ideas for engagement and collaboration which set out from a fundamental principle: that human beings are situated in nature. The stories and storytelling we examine are thus locally embedded but globally relevant.
Sara Holmgren
Cross-cutting
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Read more about the work we do under each individual focus area.
The Tools
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.
Deliverables
Read more about the results of our work in our Deliverables
On these pages you will find reports, films, articles and other things that the work within Mistra Environmental Communication has led to.
