环境传播：一个新的学术领域

On Environmental Communication：A New Research Field

中文关键词: 环境传播 环境新闻 科学传播

英文关键词: environmental communication  environmental journalism  science communication

中文摘要:

      近年来国际社会应对气候变化问题存在着诸多争议，学术界对环境议题也日益关注，形成环境传 播这一新的综合性交叉学术领域。本文首先梳理了环境传播的概念，其次比较系统地阐述了环境传播产生 的背景及其成为一个独立的研究领域的发展过程，然后以《环境传播》杂志为研究对象对当前环境传播研 究的主要领域、理论与方法以及热点议题进行了评述，并对环境传播的学科性质和特征进行探讨，希望有 助于我国学术界重视和发展环境传播这一新的学术领域。

英文摘要:

      With the controversies over climate change between developed countries and developing countries in recent years becoming increasingly heat-debated，scholars from a variety of disciplinary fields have paid attention to environmental issues，thus environmental communication has become an independent discipline. In the paper，the authors firstly define the concept of environmental communication，and subsequently map out the background and process in which how environmental communication research is developed，and finally，figure out its research interests，theoretical foundation and methodology by analyzing papers published in the journal Environmental Communication (2007—2014).