Tim Shuff

Clay Schoenfeld
“The roots of EC include nature writing, outdoor recreation and travel writing, science writing, public affairs reporting, and persuasion. The common denominators of the various forms of EC include a hard core of ecological content, a recognition of worldwide problems of crisis proportions, a value system, and a concern for private and public action.”—source

Mark Meisner
“In his textbook Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, Robert Cox provides a more formal definition that situates environmental communication as a form of symbolic action. In Cox’s words (p.12), environmental communication is “the pragmatic and constitutive vehicle for our understanding of the environment as well as our relationships to the natural world; it is the symbolic medium that we use in constructing environmental problems and negotiating society’s different responses to them.” By pragmatic Cox means the instrumental function of educating, alerting, persuading, mobilizing, solving, etc. By constitutive he means the creative function of helping to shape our perceptions of nature, environmental issues and ourselves.”—source

National Communication Association, Environmental Communication Division
“We believe all communication involves an environmental dimension, because symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted. Humans are one part of the broader ecosystems and cultures we inhabit, both shaping and shaped by our corporeal, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical alienation from and proximity to those spaces and communities.”—source

Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
“…symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted…”—source