TY - BOOK AU - Allan,Stuart AU - Adam,Barbara AU - Carter,Cynthia TI - Environmental risks and the media SN - 0415214475 AV - P96.E57 E57 2000 U1 - 070.4493637 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Mass media and the environment KW - Environmental health KW - Press coverage KW - Environmental protection N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index; List of figures and tables --; List of contributors --; Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk --; Pt. I; Mapping environmental risks --; 1; TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks --; 2; Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues --; 3; Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy --; 4; The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas --; Pt. II; Denaturalising risk politics --; 5; Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' --; 6; 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics --; 7; The media timescapes of BSE news --; 8; Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project --; Pt. III; Bodies, risks and public environments --; 9; Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure --; 10; Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness --; 11; The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments --; 12; 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media --; Pt. IV; Globalising environments at risk --; 13; Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk --; 14; Global citizenship, the environment and the media --; 15; Mediating the risks of virtual environments --; Bibliography --; Index ER -