Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction (Hardcover)

Introduction. Nuria Almiron and Jordi Xifra PART I: Ethics and anthropocentrism in climate change denial and public relations 1. Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in Climate Change Lobbying: A Discussion of Ideological Denial. Nuria Almiron 2. The Anthropocentric Roots of Public Relations: A (Pre)historical Approach and Ontological Consideration. Jordi Xifra 3. An Ecofeminist Analysis of Worldviews and Climate Change Denial. Lisa Kemmerer 4. Why Environmentalism Cannot Beat Denialism. An Antispeciesist Approach to the Ethics of Climate Change. Catia Faria and Eze Paez 5. The Elephant in the Room: The Role of Interest Groups in Creating and Sustaining the Population Taboo. Karin Kuhlemann PART II: Theorizing the Storyline of Climate Change Denial 6. Talking about Climate Change: The Power of Narratives. Miquel Rodrigo-Alsina 7. Climate Change Countermovement Organizations and Media Attention in the United States. Maxwell Boykoff and Justin Farrell 8. Think Tank Networks and the Knowledge-Interest Nexus: The Case of Climate Change. Dieter Plehwe PART III: Lobbying for Denial in climate change 9. The Climate Smokescreen: The Public Relations Consultancies Working to Obstruct Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Europe?A Critical Approach. Lucy Michaels and Katharina Ainger 10. "Cowgate": Meat Eating and Climate Change Denial. Vasile Stanescu 11. "This Nagging Worry About the Carbon Dioxide Issue": Nuclear Denial and the Nuclear Renaissance Campaign. Nuria Almiron, Natalia Khozyainova & Lluis Freixes PART IV: Advocating against Climate Change Denial 12. Fighting Climate Change Denial in the United States. Louis Hestres 13. A Wicked Systems Approach to Climate Change Advocacy. Ana Fernandez-Aballi