• • Marijn Meijers Chair
    

• • University of Amsterdam
    Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    M.H.C.Meijers@uva.nl

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    • Hang Lu Vice Chair
      

  • • University of Michigan
      Department of Communication and Media
      Ann Arbor, MI, USA
      hanglu@umich.edu

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   Hanna E. Morris Secretary

• • University of Toronto
    School of the Environment
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    hanna.morris@utoronto.ca

The ICA Environmental Communication Division aims to advance research on the interplay of the environment with any level of communication and in any setting. Research on health, risk, and science communication issues related to the environment are especially germane. The group welcomes work from any perspective (including critical, cultural, ethnic/minority, feminist) employing any research method motivated by sound research questions about environmental communication.

The group seeks to foster a relationship with other scholarly environmental communication associations to forge global ties among academics and practitioners of environmental communication to increase research, education, funding, and publication opportunities.

The Environmental Communication Division is also a vehicle for advancing the Greening of ICA in the areas of scholarship and education. It will help communication scholars improve the environmental performance of their universities, the media industries, and environmental organizations. The group will support members to integrate sustainability issues into their teaching and promote research in this area.

The interest group began with it's initial meeting at ICA 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts with nearly 40 attendees. In 2012 we established bylaws and a full set of officers. By 2013 we had more than 180 members, and 2014 over 200 to gain Division Status. We maintain a group web site (see link above) and discussion forums for group members in the MyICA/Organization Tools area of the ICA web site. You can also follow us on Twitter @ICAEnviroComm