E2: Engagement and Ecology in Environmental Communication

Chair: Claire Konkes

Engaged approaches to environmental communication recognize the value of including “many voices” for addressing questions about just and sustainable futures. The multiplicity of voices, and of participants, ecosystems, perspectives and worldviews, methods, and intended outcomes, constitute core commitments and are also some of the most pressing challenges related to engagement. The co-authors on this panel find value in connecting across ecological and engaged approaches to environmental communication for identifying ways to attend to multiplicity and work through differences and challenges in participatory, collaborative, and field-based methods. This panel seeks to deepen connections between ecological, place-based thinking and engaged approaches to methods and to more fully address considerations related to ethics, cultural and other forms of difference, and interdisciplinary collaboration and pedagogy.