Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication : Problems and Solutions Toward Social Sustainability.

DedicationForeword: Huiling Ding Chapter 1: Introduction, Mary Le Rouge and Samuel Stinson PART I: Representations of the Human BodyChapter 2: Toward an Audience-Centered Approach: Rhetorical Analysis of University Crisis Communication EmailsCourtney Cox & Erika SparbyChapter 3: Embodied Risk Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic EnvironmentBolanle Olaniran & Joseph WilliamsChapter 4: Judging the Unprecedented: Common Sense and Risk During COVID-19Scott WeedonChapter 5: College Freshmen Challenging Embodied Environmental RisksUma KrishnanPART II: Representations of the Earth⁰́₉s BodyChapter 6: The Ohio River: Re-imagining Water Risk Through Embodied DeliberationBarbara George & Heather ManzoChapter 7: Private Groundwater Contamination and Integrated Risk Communication Simon Mooney, Sarah Lavallee, Jean O⁰́₉Dwyer, Anna Majury, & Paul HyndsChapter 8: Public Responses to a Proposed Wind Farm and their Application to Technical Communication MethodsMary Le Rouge Chapter 9: Evaluating Ecological Perceptions and Approaches in the Fourth National Climate Assessment Report Diane Martinez PART III: Representations of Human and Earth TogetherChapter 10: Reconciling Gestures: Overcoming Obstacles to Transcultural Risk Communication in South African Coal MinesBeverly A. SauerChapter 11: Reanimating Risks: Forest Giants and Their Role in Technical CommunicationCooper Day & Christopher ScheidlerChapter 12: Technical Writing as Embodiment: iFixitElizabeth BaddourChapter 13: Changing Places: Understanding Climate Change Risk Communication and Comprehension through Socially Constructed Features of PlaceZachary GarrettChapter 14: An Antiracist Rhetoric of Embodied RiskSamuel Stinson

This timely and accessible edited collection explores how technical communicators meet the challenges of enacting effective risk and crisis communication policies to address local and global environmental problems. Through a series of practical studies, this collection calls for improved technical and environmental communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of risk. The chapters highlight the cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response and decision making, while considering issues of accessibility, pedagogy, and social justice. This volume also offers a diverse look at methodological practices for students, researchers, and practitioners looking to address embodied aspects of crisis and risk both locally and globally that incorporate UX, storytelling, and dynamic text. This collection provides accessible readings for use in undergraduate or graduate courses in technical communication, risk assessment and communication, and environmental communication, and will also be of interest to scholars in these areas.