New Directions in Environmental Communication Research

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental and health communication has become increasingly important across the world, partly due to the increased number of communities, towns, and cities that are badly polluted with toxic chemicals. Residents have fears not only about their family’s health, but also about the quality of their living environments, as well as their investments in homes and properties. Governments at local, provincial, state, and federal levels play central roles in identifying and characterizing risks and then overseeing remediation of polluted water and soil. The result is a complex interplay of stakeholder interests that co-occur while polluted sites are cleaned up.

This Special Issue focuses on communication research and practice in one of the oldest and largest toxic chemical research programs in the United States, the Superfund Research Program. This program supports research and community engagement at 22 funded centers across the U.S. that involve more than 100 institutions and 1700 researchers in 40 states. Superfund researchers have produced more than 11,600 peer-reviewed articles. Articles in this Special Issue will include lessons learned about community-based environmental and health communication, including those with disadvantaged populations.

Prof. Dr. James W. Dearing
Dr. Jeffrey G. Cox
Guest Editors

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