Media, Culture and the Environment (Communications, Media, and Culture)

This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics. The contentious issue of the environment has provoked a heated political debate. Alison Anderson offers the reader an in-depth analysis of pressure-group politics, the environmental lobby and the manner in which news is distributed on these issues This volume weaves together the literature on the media and the environment into an integrated cultural studies text. The author re-examines the concept of culture using the environment as a case study.