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Allan, Stuart - Adam, Barbara - Carter, Cynthia (eds.):
Environmental Risks and the Media
London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2000. xiv, 278 p.
ISBN 0-415-21447-5






CONTENTS


    List of figures and tables  vii

    List of contributors  viii

    Foreword  xii
    Ulrich Beck

    Acknowledgements  xv

    Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk  1
    Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam And Cynthia Carter

    PART I
    Mapping environmental risks      27

        1. TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks  29
            Simon Cottle

        2. Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues  45
            M. Mark Miller and Ronnie Parnell Riechert

        3. Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the `Brent Spar' controversy  55
            Anders Hansen

        4. The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas  73
            Maggie Wykess

    PART II
    Denaturalising risk politics      91

        5. Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society'  93
            Alison Anderson

        6. 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics  105
            Peter Phillimore and Suzanne Moffatt

        7. The media timescapes of BSE news  117
            Barbara Adam

        8. Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project  130
            Peter Glasner

    PART III
    Bodies, risks and public environments      143

        9. Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure  145
            Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland

      10. Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness 160
            Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard

      11. The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments  171
            C. Kay Weaver, Cynhia Carter and Elizabeth Stanko

      12. 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media  184
           John Tulloch

    PART IV
    Globalising environments at risk      199

      13. Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk  201
            Kris M. Wilson

      14. Global citizenship, the environment and the media  218
            Bronislaw Szebszynski and Mark Toogood

      15. Mediating the risks of virtual environments  229
            Joost Van Loon

    Bibliography 241

    Index 265