Mistra Environmental Communication
KEY POINTS- Communication shapes our understanding of environmental issues – this influences how we act.
- The research programme seeks to understand the role of communication in sustainability transformations.
- Researchers, public authorities, businesses and civil society organisations work closely together in the programme.
Project overview
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Short summary
Mistra Environmental Communication is an eight-year research programme dedicated to investigating how communication shapes sustainability transformations. Our work is critical and change-oriented: we advance a scientifically grounded understanding of how communication practices can contribute to efforts towards a sustainable future. The programme is a close collaboration between researchers from diverse disciplines, authorities, civil society organisations, and companies. SLU is the programme host and leads the work together with Uppsala University.
Research programme website
Visit the Mistra Environmental Communication programme website at www.environmental-communication.org. There you can find news and information about the programme's research, focus areas and upcoming events.
Why environmental communication?
Environmental communication is any communication about the environment – spoken, written and visual. It takes place all the time and everywhere, from casual conversations at the kitchen table to high-stake negotiations at COP meetings. The way we express ourselves and interact with each other shapes our understanding of nature and environmental challenges. Ultimately, these understandings influence how we act upon these issues. This places environmental communication at the center of sustainability efforts.
To address complex and controversial crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss, we need to identify harmful communication patterns and develop ways of communicating that encourage constructive dialogue and drive action toward sustainability.
Partnership
- Biosfärsområde Voxnadalen
- Biotopia
- Greenpeace
- HAW Hamburg
- Historiska Museet
- Loughborough University
- Lunds kommun
- Lund University
- Moderna Museet
- Mälarens vattenvårdsförbund
- Naturum Skrylle
- Ovanåkers kommun
- Svensk biblioteksförening
- Svenska Jägareförbundet
- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
- Swedish Forest Agency
- Swedish National Heritage Board
- The Federation of Swedish Farmers
- The University of Texas at Austin
- University of Borås
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Uppsala kommun
- Urban Minds
- Wikimedia Foundation
- WSP
