Objetivo To analyze the ways in which environmental issues are framed in public discourse in five European countries, focusing on the period after the Chernobyl accident occurred in 1986.The project consist of the following : i) media coverage of environmental problems in the aftermath of Chernobyl, an event that proved to have an important impact on social and political sensitivity towards environmental issues; ii) European environmental discourse and its repercussions upon the national discourses ; iii) influence of communication strategies of business actors, environmental movements and organizations on the way in which environmental issues are formed ; iv) changing role of the established actors in the public discourse on the environment. The starting point of the project is the analysis of the institutionalization and professionalization of environmental protest, the development of communication strategies and techniques by industry, the changes in public discourse on environmental issues and the changes in the framing of environmental issues. The approach is the following : i) A content and discourse analysis of communication strategies employed in regard to environmental issues. This is provided by an analysis of the media coverage of environmental issues contained in by newspapers in Italy, Germany, France, U.K. and Ireland following Chernobyl. ii) An interview analysis to understand the activity of organizations in environmental issues now and in the past years, their relationships with other actors in the field, their public communication activities and their internal organizational adaptations due to such activities. On the basis of such analysis, the project will provide a better undertsanding of the changes in the way environmental problems are perceived and defined in European public debates. Programa(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Tema(s) 0303 - Societal and ethical aspects of sustainable development Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinador EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Via dei Roccetini 9 50016 SAN DOMENICO DI FIESOLE Italia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (4) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo Münchner Projektgruppe für Sozialforschung Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Dachauer Straße 189 80637 München Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK Irlanda Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Safari, Donovan's Road 30 CORK Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos University of Lancaster Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Bailrigg LA1 4YR Lancaster Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Université de Paris X (Paris-Nanterre) Francia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 200 avenue de la République 92001 Nanterre Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos
