News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Takahashi, Bruno (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pinto, Juliet (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chavez, Manuel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vigón, Mercedes (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
• Subjects: Communication.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Sociology.; Environmental policy.; Media and Communication.; Latin American Culture.; Media Research.; Environmental Policy.

This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society abo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Challenges in the reporting of environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Part One. North America and the Caribbean
• Chapter 2: The News Media and Environmental Challenges in Mexico: the Structural Deficits of Coverage and Reporting by the Press
• Chapter 3: Comparing Cuban and South Florida Spanish-Language Media Coverage of Sea Level Rise
• Part Two. The Andes and the Amazon regions
• Chapter 4: Environmental Journalism in Brazil: History, Characteristics, and Framing of Disasters
• Chapter 5:Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources but Old Media-State Tensions and Practices
• Chapter 6: Environmental journalism in Colombia: An analysis of two specialized environmental magazines
• Chapter 7: The challenges for environmental reporting in Peru: Coverage of small-scale mining in Peruvian newspapers
• Part Three. Southern South America
• Chapter 8: Environmental journalism in Argentina
• Chapter 9: The future of environmental communication and journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean.