Environmental communication both enables action and shapes how environmental relationships are understood. Cox’s pragmatic and constitutive distinction connects warnings, coordination, and participation with representations of nature, responsibility, and legitimate futures. Evaluation examines practical response alongside meaning, recognition, and exclusion, without replacing ecological or audience evidence.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryAnalytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
- DomainMedia, Publics & Society
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.