27 Jan. Sustainability & Risk Communication.
Featured Image: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Class Meeting Agenda
The Following are the topics/goals we will cover into today’s class session:
- 1. Overview of Caradonna, J. (2014). Introduction. Sustainability: a history (pp. 1-20).
- 2. Group Discussion 1: Breakout rooms
- 3. Overview of Grabill, J. T. & W. & Simmons, M. (1998). Toward a critical rhetoric of risk communications. (pp.415-441).
- 4. Group Discussion 2: Breakout rooms
- 5. Defining Key Terms in professional academic writing
Sustainability: A History
DQ: Breakout Session 1
Please respond to the following in your breakout sessions. Just write down as much information as you need to respond during discussion:
- 1. What’s your final assessment of “sustainability”? As a descriptive term, how does “sustainability” differ from some of the terms/movements that it subsumes? For instance, what does “Sustainability” communicate that say, “Climate Change” or “Global Warming” cannot?
- 2. What are some drawbacks, OR how well does sustainability withstand the criticism leveled at it by guys like Bill McKibben way back when it first entered popular usage (2)
- 3. If sustainability is such a useful term why have environmental conditions deteriorated so much since the 1970’s?
Risk Communication, 4 Models
DQ: Breakout Session 2
Please respond to the following in your breakout sessions. Just write down as much information as you need to respond during discussion:
- 1. Do Grabill & Simmons have suggestions for how to communicate sustainability more effectively?
- 2. For example, how can sustainability discourse be fit into a participatory democracy model?
