Current Research

Research in our lab focuses on the intersections between communication, environmental policy, and democracy. My research goal is to provide a theoretically rich analysis of environmental policy that is useful to those who seek to transform the ways humans inhabit the planet. Funding for our research comes from a variety of sources, including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of Energy. I am an author/editor of Communication and the Culture of Technology (1990, Washington State University Press), Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development (1997, University of South Carolina Press), Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology (2004, Texas A&M University Press), Argumentation and Critical Decision Making (2004, Allyn and Bacon). My research is published in scholarly journals such as Agriculture and Human Values, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Conservation Biology, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Practice, Environmental Values, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Wildlife Management, as well as several book chapters, and symposium proceedings.