Environmental Risks and the Media (Paperback)

Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk PART I Mapping environmental risks 1 TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks 2 Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues 3 Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the ‘Brent Spar’ controversy 4 The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas PART II Denaturalising risk politics 5 Environmental pressure politics and the ‘risk society’ 6 ‘Industry causes lung cancer’: would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics 7 The media time scapes of BSE news 8 Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project PART III Bodies, risks and public environments 9 Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure 10 Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness 11 The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments 12 ‘Landscapes of fear’: public places, fear of crime and the media PART IV Globalising environments at risk 13 Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk 14 Global citizenship, the environment and the media 15 Mediating the risks of virtual environments