Transcript Environmental risks, mass communications and ecological civilization

Environmental risks, mass
communications and
ecological civilization
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• Kuo Viola Huang
Ph.D candidate in International communication, Macquarie university
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• Xiaodong Tou
Post doctoral research fellow in environmental law, Macquarie university
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Abstract
• This paper offers a study of functioning mass
communications as educators, organizers and facilitators
for adjustment of multiple interests over time in a
'sandwich age'.
• This study suggests a practical approach to mass media
in adopting more interactive two-way communications to
construct stakeholder participations and a vibrant public
sphere to deal with environmental risks.
• Environmental risks have redivided interest groups in
current society and the ecological civilization is the
settlement in constructing a harmonious sustainable codevelopment.
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Key words
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Environmental risks,
mass communication,
ecological civilization,
multi-interests,
stakeholder participation
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Introduction
• The ‘sandwich’ age.
• Mass media are spontaneously relied as a
tool for communicating towards solutions.
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Environmental risks in the
context of globalization
• The existence of environmental risk—
environmental problem
• Characteristics of environmental problems
• Characteristics of environmental risks
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The character of mass communication
during Multi-interests adjustment
• Environmental risk is close related to
multi-interest
• Media contribution to ER , Critique to
tradition opinions
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Ecological civilization as the
settlement
• Civilization and media, environment
• Definition of EC tradition
• The other level of meaning
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Conclusion
• The environmental hazards “downsize” the
human beings with their characteristics of
unpredictability, incalculability,
uncontrollability and irrestorability.
• Environmental risks mix up the boundaries
of nation, region, race, organizations,
individuals and time, and redivide the
interest groups
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• The loose and unsteady multi-interest groups
compete but rather more reorganize to solve the
enormous environmental hazards.
• Mass communications can work as educators,
organizers and facilitators by adjusting multiinterests and adopting more interactive two-way
communications, and they are the must for
constructing stakeholder participation and
vibrant public sphere to deal with the
environmental risks.
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• Ecological civilization is not an optimistic
ideological concept but the only possible
settlement for all interest groups in facing the
open-ended, ultimately irremediable large-scale
environmental hazards.
• An ecological civilization includes two levels of
meanings:
– The environmental risks and correlative responding
activities are significant constitutions of modern
civilization;
– Ecological systematic progress of civilization
containing various interplayed interest-groups and
can only be achieved by the harmonious sustainable
co-development of all.
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• mass communications are responsible for
inspiring more active, interactive,
pragmatic and co-beneficial public actions
towards a sustainable world of peace and
justice, democracy, self-management,
freedom and community.
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About the authors
• Kuo Huang, Ph.D candidate in International
Communication in Macquarie University, Lecturer in
School of Communication in Heilongjiang University,
China.
• Email: [email protected]
• Xiaodong Tou, Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow in
Centre for Environmental Law in Macquarie University,
Professor in College of Law and Politic Science in
Wenzhou University, China.
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