Environmental Journalism Research Articles

Animation in Environmental Journalism: Effects on News Perception and Information Seeking

ABSTRACT An experiment with 413 US participants was conducted to examine the role of animation in environmental journalism. Results show that there was no consistent modality effect (live-action vs. animation) on news perception and information-seeking across environmental topics. Specifically, animation was favored in the communication of fracking. On climate change, concern for the issue moderates the modality’s effect on news perceptions, information-seeking. The findings contribute to the literature of effective visual environmental communication by incorporating the modality effects perspectives, while also offering practical advice on how to effectively use animation to promote audience trust, news enjoyment, information-seeking with various environmental issues.

Corrigendum to “Characterization of Particulate Emissions from Biodiesel using High Resolution Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer” Published in Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment, 9, 78–85, 2015

Corrigendum to “Characterization of Particulate Emissions from Biodiesel using High Resolution Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer” Published in Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment, 9, 78–85, 2015

A topic network analysis of the system turn in the environmental sciences

The concept of Earth system science denotes a shift in the scientific discourse from disciplinary accounts of isolated components of the global environment towards the holistic and interdisciplinary treatment of their complex, functional interactions. We measure to what extent the environmental scientific literature of the past three decades reflects this system turn. Our initial dataset consists of 133,670 articles published in 95 relevant journals since 1990. We apply a combination of topic modelling and network analysis. Correlated Topic Models identify latent themes (“topics”) in the scientific discourse as well as intertopic correlations. This allows the generation of topic networks and thus the application of network-analytic techniques. We generate and analyze 2 topic networks. The first network focuses on climate linkages in a subset of our corpus consisting only of environmental journals without a climate-specific orientation: as the climate system is constitutional for the notion of Earth system science, a system turn should reflect itself in strong linkages between climate- and non-climate environmental topics. The second network, based on the full dataset, applies community detection to identify broader topical clusters. Here, we expect the system turn to manifest itself in communities with high topical diversity regarding the components of the global environment as well as types of human-nature interactions, rather than reflecting the boundaries between broader research fields. Our results show that climate topics are comparatively weakly connected and less integrated into broader thematic packages than other topics; that linkages frequently reflect conceptual debates rather than functional interactions between substantive environmental components; and that the scientific discourse splits into 4 broader domains, two of those being topically homogeneous and the other two comprising only marginally diverse topics. We conclude that the concept of Earth system science is primarily aspirational in nature rather than reflecting an empirical shift in the structure of the scientific discourse.

Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti

Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti

Determination of Hydroxymethylfurfural Content (HMF) in Fresh Bee Honey Produced in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) by HPLC DAD Method

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Determination of Hydroxymethylfurfural Content (HMF) in Fresh Bee Honey Produced in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) by HPLC DAD Method

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Editorial: Journal Accountability Report

Our editorial office reports the following data to present a clear analysis regarding the publication process of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education (IJESE) and to inform readers and researchers. The following data are from January 1, 2020–December 31, 2020. We present an overview of the new publisher, number of manuscripts, acceptance rate, rejection rates, distribution of accepted manuscripts, new editorial board members, and other information.

Message from the Editor: Why Did We Change the Title and Journal Web Site?<br />  

International Journal of Environmental and Science Education (IJESE) was founded in 2006 to disseminate high-quality open access research works related to psychological, sociological, economic, and organizational aspects of environmental science, environmental education, and science education, as well as evaluation studies of curriculum development in these fields. From its very first issue, IJESE has proven to be a distinguished scientific platform for experts throughout the World. Shortly after its launch, the journal was included in many respectable indexes such as ERIC and SCOPUS. Due to a miscommunication between the founders of IJESE and the national ISSN center, the title of the journal was recorded as “International Journal of Environmental Science Education” (details are available at https:// portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1306-3065) instead of “International Journal of Environmental and Science Education”. Missing word: “and” in the title, generated a discrepancy between the aims of the journal and the title. Additionally, it caused many problems with index centers, such as loss of a considerable number of citations, etc. In 2019, IJESE was acquired by Veritas Publications, UK, a London-based publisher of scientific journals. Veritas Publications, UK, decided to make the following changes to increase the impact and visibility of the journal: 1) During the transfer of the ISSN record for the journal, the title of the journal was changed to “Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education”. This change has cleared the inconsistency for the title. Additionally, the word: “Interdisciplinary” emphasized the interdisciplinary nature inherent in the journal’s aims and scope. 2) ijese.com is obtained in addition to ijese.net. Old issues of the journal remain accessible in ijese.net, while new issues of the journal continue to be published in ijese.com. 3) Article processing fee is waived for all articles. 4) All published articles are assigned unique DOI numbers. 5) All incoming manuscripts are subject to screening against plagiarism using a similarity check software. 6) More rigorous editorial criteria are enforced to accept a manuscript for publication. Consequently, readers of IJESE enjoy top quality articles written by authors from diverse geographic locations. We invite you to visit www.ijese.com for new issues and to submit your manuscripts to IJESE.

Nitrogen and Carbon Characteristics of Sludges from Formic Acid and Sodium Hydroxide Pulping of Kenaf Stem

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Nitrogen and Carbon Characteristics of Sludges from Formic Acid and Sodium Hydroxide Pulping of Kenaf Stem

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Typology Of Materials On The Environmental Topic In The Media Of Uzbekistan

The article discusses the issues of classification of materials of the media in Uzbekistan on environmental topics, analyzes the state of environmental journalism in the republic and identifies shortcomings in the presentation of environmental information and its impact on the formation of environmental thinking of the population. The author of the study revealed and analyzed the shortcomings of the theoretical base on the problems of media coverage of environmental problems, highlight the typology of environmental journalism in Uzbekistan,consider the problems of forming the ecological culture of the population through the media.And also to determine the role of environmental journalism in Uzbekistan in the international information space. The main results of the research are the analysis of quantitative indicators of journalistic materials on environmental topics. As a result of the study, it was revealed that there is no consistency, genre and thematic diversity in the presentation of environmental information in the media. The expediency of ecological specialization in training journalists is recommended.

Book review: Paul Thompson and Susan Hunston, Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals

Book review: Paul Thompson and Susan Hunston, <i>Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals</i>

Mapping the knowledge domains of research on fire safety – an informetrics analysis

To understand the current status and the development of fire safety studies, explore the knowledge bases and research frontiers, 2027 fire safety-related papers from 2000 to 2019 were retrieved from the SCIE and SSCI databases of the Web of Science platform as data samples. Bibliometric analysis methods for informetrics, such as co-occurrence analysis, co-citation analysis, and burst analysis of keywords were adopted for comprehensive visualization analysis of fire safety studies by means of two tools of mapping knowledge domains. The results show that China has the highest number of publications in the country/region and that the University of Science and Technology of China has the highest number of publications of relevant institutions. Analysis of flame retardance, thermodynamics and flame retardant polymer development of graphite and other nanomaterials are the knowledge bases in the field of fire safety studies. Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Fire and Materials, Journal of Fire Sciences, and Building and Environment are the core journals in this field. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Fire Safety Journal and Fire Technology are the top 3 journals related to fire safety studies of tunnel and underground space. The research topics were aggregated into three core paths: the “fire safety of building and tunnel” path, the “combustion behavior-simulation analysis” path, and the “flame-retardant material” path. Building and tunnel fires, forest fires, and materials science engineering have been hot research areas in recent years. At present, the basic theory and research system of fire safety studies are essentially completed, and there are many future research directions with extensive branches. The fire safety of tunnel and underground space, intelligent firefighting and rescue, the basic theories and research systems in the field of fire and flame retardant materials represent the current frontiers of fire safety studies.

Print Media Coverage of Environmental Issues in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ecolinguistic Analysis

The coverage of environmental issues is of great importance to Moroccan newspapers, namely As-Sabah, Al-Akhbar, and Al-Massae. The present study explores the frequency of articles that covered environmental issues and investigated the newspapers’ professionalism in writing environmental reports on man’s environmental setting violations. The Research was accomplished through the framework of ecolinguistics to categorize and analyze all environmental stories that extended from March to July 2020. The sums of 308 issues of the three newspapers were manually checked to identify the issues reported about environmental problems. The findings revealed that environmental coverage by the three newspapers was feeble. Precisely, only 73 newspaper issues pertaining to the three newspapers contained at least one environmental title. Practically, identified environmental articles were manually searched and treated based on a keyword selection such as environment, forest, animals, water, pollution, air, irrigation, deforestation, and overgrazing, among other words. In total, the final sum of environmental articles published by the three newspapers during the COVID-19 period were 92 articles (1.8%) over 4922 total articles published by 73 issues. The role of print media is determinant in covering environmental topics to maintain the public informed about the protection of environmental resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, this role is far from being achieved given the feeble interest devoted to environmental issues and the way through which the newspapers have produced environmentally based stories. To remedy this situation, some recommendations are afforded to improve the writing of environmental reports in line with ecolinguistics principles and environmental journalism ethics.Â

China Weekly as a Form of Environmental Advocacy Journalism

ABSTRACT This study examines the environmental journalism published in the small, monthly magazine, China Weekly, and investigates how this publication functions as an environmental advocate seeking to promote positive, environmental change in China. In doing so, this research considers two questions: Firstly, what does environmental advocacy mean in a Chinese context and how does China Weekly perform this role and, secondly, how does a rapidly changing media market threaten China Weekly’s future as an environmental advocate? This study demonstrates how, through its collaborative work with environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) and its environmentally-themed photojournalism, China Weekly produces a form of journalism that avoids pointed critique of government and instead focuses on the less contentious goals of environmental consciousness raising and education. It also argues that, while political restrictions do impact the magazine’s environmental advocacy journalism, it is the economic and technological challenges that China Weekly currently faces which are threatening the magazine’s future as an environmental advocate.

Environmental Journalists Perspective on the Coverage of Environmental Issues in Media of Pakistan

Pakistan is facing serious environmental issues which is becoming a risk for the citizens of the country. This study is designed to focus on the Environmental journalist’s perspective on the coverage of environmental issues in the Media of Pakistan. Survey research method was used and a structured questionnaire was distributed to collect data from environmental journalists in Pakistan. A non-probability sampling method, snow ball sampling was applied to collect data from the journalists on the specified issues. The questionnaire was sent to 20 journalists covering environmental beats, in which 18 responded. All major issues prevailing in the context of environment (globally/locally) were incorporated in the questionnaire. The results showed that, according to the environmental journalists, the coverage of environmental issues in the media of Pakistan is not satisfactory, even considerable low, print and electronic media were the only major channel of communications that covered environmental issues, while these issues have significance and also audiences have some sort of interest in these issues, but journalists noted that there is no such options to highlight in the media due to some major reasons except a little coverage in the media.

Withdrawal: Feng, C., Liu, X., Wang, C., Wang, J. and Sun, J. (2020), Characteristics and Changes of Microorganisms in Simulated Pipe Network with Ultraviolet‐Tea Polyphenols Combined Disinfection. Water and Environment Journal. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/wej.12557.

The above article from Water and Environment Journal, published online on 03 March 2020 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief Dr Ana Soares, and John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management. The withdrawal has been agreed following a request from the authors due to their concern over some of the data in the article.

‘We Don’t Need No Thought Control’ – Rob Gray’s Fight Against ‘Indoctrination’ in Accounting Education

ABSTRACT I have written about Rob before – about his colossal influence on social and environmental accounting research and practice and his immense contribution to accounting academia more broadly. Not only did Rob establish the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) and Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (SEAJ), but he was instrumental in establishing the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) and The British Accounting Review (BAR). For these reasons alone, there are probably thousands of accounting scholars across the world who have benefited enormously from Rob’s trailblazing achievements. In this contribution, I want to remember Rob for another significant aspect of his scholarship. More specifically, I want to remember Rob as an inspirational accounting educator – as someone who cared deeply about his students, his subject and his profession.

The Shape of Green Fixed Income Investing to Come

This paper serves as an introduction to the Journal of Environmental Investing’s issue (Vol. 10, No. 1, 2020) on climate and green bonds. Fixed income securities that integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors have become a crucial component of most sustainable investment and climate-related risk management strategies. Global green bond issuance has grown from USD87.2bn in 2016 to USD257.7bn in 2019. However, this issue is addressing some of the challenges of rapid market scaling. The first pertains to the labeling of green bonds. Albeit the term “green bond” becoming synonymous for all ESG-aligned fixed income securities, there now exists a plethora of labels, names, and designations for green bonds, often resulting in confusion of what exactly constitutes a green bond. By providing the most comprehensive overview to date of all green bond variants, this issue explores the core attributes of green bonds, such as their potential returns from financial and non-financial angles, taxonomical and underlying conceptual considerations, and academic assessment of the market as a whole. In conclusion, this paper and the corresponding issue provide contemporary insights and an up-to-date snapshot of the evolving characteristics of climate and green bonds.

The political economics of news making in Russian media: Ownership, clickbait and censorship

This article explores the dual influence of market and political pressures on journalists and the resulting character of censorship and self-censorship in Russia. In particular, it focuses on how these pressures affect the work environment journalists have to engage with and the quality of news they produce. It also explains the economic and political context of commercialised news aggregation and its impact on the media industry and its workers. A cut-throat media market makes it almost impossible for any outlet to not have to sacrifice some aspects of quality journalism in order to increase its audience. As a journalist with almost 20 years of experience in the media industry, I explore the conditions in Russia’s media market. Even private media owners are often deeply beholden to the state and are as susceptible to pressure from state agents and censorship as are outlets that are directly owned by the government. This can partly be explained by the fact that many outlets which used to be privately-owned and independent have undergone hostile takeovers, including new editorial teams loyal to the state.