Participatory networks and the environment : the BGreen Project in the US and Bangladesh / Fadia Hasan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hasan, Fadia, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in environmental communication and media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in the environmental sciences.

Environmental protection--International cooperation.

Environmental protection.

Environmental protection--United States.

United States.

Environmental protection--Bangladesh.

Action research.

BGreen Project.

Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

x, 217 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Seeking innovative answers to global sustainability challenges has become an urgent need with the onslaught of environmental and ecological degradation that surrounds us today. More than ever, there is a need to carve new ways for citizens and different industries and institutions to unite--to cooperate, communicate and collaborate to address growing global sustainability concerns. This book examines one such global collaboration called The BGreen Project (BGreen): a transnational participatory action research project that spans the United States and Bangladesh with the aim of addressing environmental issues via academic-community engagement. By analysing and unpacking the architecture of BGreen, Hasan teases out the key factors that are required for the continued momentum of environmentally focuses, academic-community partnership projects in order to present a workable model that could be applied elsewhere. This model is based around a unique conceptual framework developed by the author--"transnational participatory networks"--which is drawn from participatory action research and actor network theory, with the specific aim of addressing the common challenge of building evolving, stable and sustainable networks. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental communication, citizen participation, environmental politics, environmental sociology and sustainable development.

Contents:

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. Theory and methods

3. Transnational political economic realities and their impacts on social transformation

4. The networked architecture of the BGreen experience

5. Multi-media amplification of the BGreen Project

6. Youth reflections, growth and sustenance of BGreen participatory network

7. Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge"-- title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138234734

1138234737

OCLC:

1039190468

Publisher Number:

99977981793