Textbook

The Textbook - A Critical Introduction to Environmental Communication

In order to gather knowledge from the research programme and the Master’s education in Environmental Communication, and make it widely available, we are writing the open access textbook ‘A Critical Introduction to Environmental Communication’. As part of the writing process, the author team gathers participants from across the programme in discussions and meetings, which enables programme-wide conversations and learning.
Theme leader

Amelia Mutter

  • Researcher, contact person for Textbook
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • Email
I am interested in the role of future imaginaries in sustainability transformations, including how views on knowledge-production and technology influence practices and decision-making.

Textbook Project: ’A Critical Introduction to Environmental Communication’ 

Based on the findings and insights from Mistra Environmental Communication, we write the textbook ‘A Critical Introduction to Environmental Communication’. The book is under contract with Routledge. We are currently in the process of revising the chapter drafts and plan to publish the book in the summer of 2026.

In the book we:  

  1. contextualise environmental communication in critical social science research and introduce essential conceptual lenses such as practice, governance, and power 
  2. relate environmental communication to communication theory more broadly
  3. unpack communicative dynamics and disagreements, including conflict, deliberation and facilitation
  4. develop an understanding of the role of environmental communication in the mediated world we live in

More information about the Textbook and its progress will come.  

The textbook is written by the following Mistra Environmental Communication researchers: Camilo Calderon, Anke Fischer, Lars Hallgren, Amelia Mutter and Malte Rödl. If you have questions about this process you can reach out to Amelia Mutter (amelia.mutter@slu.se).  

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