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Technical communication for environmental action [electronic book] / edited by Sean D. Williams

Contributor(s): Williams, Sean, 1970- [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication: Publisher: New York : SUNY Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781438491295 (hardback); 9781438491301 (e-Book).Subject(s): Communication in the environmental sciences | Communication of technical informationDDC classification: 333.72014 Online resources: e-Book
Contents:
When sound is frozen: extracting climate data from Inuit narratives -- Boundary waters: deliberative experience design for environmental decision making -- In defense of a greenspace: students discover agency in the practice of community-engaged technical communication -- Flood insurance rate maps as communicative sites of pragmatic environmental action -- Collaborating for clean air: virtue ethics and the cultivation of transformational service-learning partnerships -- The narrative of silent stakeholders: reframing local environmental communications to include global human impacts -- Resilient farmland: the role of technical communicators -- Writing for clients, writing for change: proposals, persuasion, and problem solving in the technical writing classroom -- Health in the shale fields: technical communication and environmental health risks -- Participatory policy: enacting technical communication for a shared water future -- Rhino crash: teaching science, medical, and environmental writing for social action.
Summary: Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work-which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication-this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action.
List(s) this item appears in: Sustainable Development Goals Collection
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Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work--which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication--this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action.

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When sound is frozen: extracting climate data from Inuit narratives -- Boundary waters: deliberative experience design for environmental decision making -- In defense of a greenspace: students discover agency in the practice of community-engaged technical communication -- Flood insurance rate maps as communicative sites of pragmatic environmental action -- Collaborating for clean air: virtue ethics and the cultivation of transformational service-learning partnerships -- The narrative of silent stakeholders: reframing local environmental communications to include global human impacts -- Resilient farmland: the role of technical communicators -- Writing for clients, writing for change: proposals, persuasion, and problem solving in the technical writing classroom -- Health in the shale fields: technical communication and environmental health risks -- Participatory policy: enacting technical communication for a shared water future -- Rhino crash: teaching science, medical, and environmental writing for social action.

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work-which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication-this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action.

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CHOICE Review

This collection, edited by Williams (Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs), presents examples and approaches to illustrate technical communication for addressing complex environmental issues involving audiences with diverse needs. The introduction and epilogue explore and summarize a framework geared toward a practical goal: making information accessible to promote community dialogue and collective decision-making. The contributed chapters, each the work of a university-based author, address land masses large and small, air quality, water quality, scarcity and flooding, organizational performance goals, and dimensions of local knowledge, ethics, and agency. Beyond the specific issues presented in the 11 case studies, each offers contextual discussion as well: classroom applications, narrative voices and methods, and choices of application with attention to policy and process. The book will be useful to practitioners in many fields as background on multiple and varied environmental issues and in presenting the diverse requirements involved in decision-making and framing approaches. Prescriptive statements on applying concepts of participation, treatment of risk, value formation, and social and environmental justice are varied and case-specific. The contributing authors' vivid contrasts of case details with more generalizable principles from fields such as public policy, economics, and operations research provide much insight. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. --James F Booker, Siena College

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Sean D. Williams is Professor of Technical Communication and Information Design at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the coauthor of Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook .

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