Frontmatter -- Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Rethinking environmental communication scholarship -- Part I: Research field -- A: Development and challenges of environmental communication -- 2 Environmental communication as a field for investigation and action -- 3 Advancing the environmental communication field: A research agenda -- B: Epistemologies and research paradigms -- 4 Rhetorical approaches to environmental communication -- 5 Exploring the potential for quantitative environmental communication to support social change -- 6 Ethnographic iterations and seeds of possibilities in environmental communication research -- 7 Environmental communication as epistemological struggle: Knowledge, ideology, and political ecology -- 8 Post-foundationalism and post-politics in critical environmental communication scholarship -- Part II: Perspectives -- A: Arenas -- 9 Tweeting on a rapidly warming planet: Environmental communication social media research -- 10 Negotiating the norms of science communication: Blogs by climate scientists and journalists -- 11 Analysing climate change communication in African countries: Scales, frames, and claims-makers in media from South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya -- 12 Climate change coverage under the lens of alternativeness -- B: Voice -- 13 Sourcing matters: Voices in progressive alternative media -- 14 Voice and environmental communication: Indonesian women's conservation advocacy -- 15 Communication in youth climate activism: Addressing research pitfalls and centring young people's voices -- 16 The more-than-human world in environmental communication: Attunement for transformation -- C: Place -- 17 The authority of place -- 18 Re(integrating) the public in "public" participation processes in East Sikkim, India -- 19 Representing Amazonia: Perspectives from the Global North and the Global South -- Part III: Futures -- A: Social change: Constraints and possibilities -- 20 A communication perspective on societal transformations towards sustainability -- 21 When resiliencies collide: How Luhmann's theory of social systems can be utilized to think through climate resiliency planning -- 22 On wolves and commons: Steps towards local deliberation and social learning in wildlife management -- 23 Environmental communication, social practices, and food system transformation -- 24 Low-tech energy for essential, accessible, ecological transitions -- B: Open questions -- 25 Investigating the untapped potential of disagreements -- 26 Embracing grief in a climate-changed world: Learning to cope with loss and companioning with Earth -- 27 Deep sustainability and the tyranny of duality -- Conclusion -- 28 Reclaiming openness in ways of knowing -- Author biographies -- Index