The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development

by Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u (Editor), Jan Servaes (Editor)

Overview

The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN’S Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing together theoretical and applied contributions from scholars in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America, the handbook argues that communication is a key factor in achieving the global goals and suggests a review of the SDGs to consider its importance. Reflecting on the impact of COVID-19, it highlights the need for effective communication infrastructure and critically assesses the 2030 agenda and timeline. Including individual SDG and country case studies as well as integrated analysis, the chapters seek to enrich understanding of communication for development and propose crucial policy interventions. It is critical reading for researchers as well as policy makers and NGOs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030697723
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/30/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	635
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u is the Managing Editor of "Africa Policy Journal" at Harvard Kennedy School, USA. He is a development expert and the author of Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria (2018). An ex-BBC journalist, and previously Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria University, UK, he has taught global journalism and mass communications at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Bayero University, Nigeria.

Jan Servaes was UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change. He has taught International Communication and Communication for Social Change in Australia, Belgium, China, Hong Kong, the United States, the Netherlands, and Thailand, in addition to several teaching stints at about 120 universities in 55 countries. Servaes is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal “Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies.” He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change (2020).

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
1. Communication for Sustainable Development in the Age of COVID-19
2. The Sustainable Development Goals: A Major Reboot or Just Another Acronym?
3. SDG18—The Missing Ventilator: An Introduction to the 2030 Agenda for Development
4. Communication for Sustainable Development and Blue Growth: Towards New Theoretical and Empirical Directions
5. A Buddhist Approach to Participatory Communication and Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Lao PDR
6. Between Rights and Diversities: Can the Regulation of Communication Help Prevent Climate Change and Promote Sustainable Development?
7. Islamic Finance for SDGs: A Mirage?
Part 2: Communicating the Global Goals
8. Community Learning Centre as a Promising Medium for Promoting Sustainable Development Goal 4: Lifelong Learning
9. Communicating Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Evaluation of Education Experiences and Proposals for Teachers’ Orientation
10. Media, Literacy and Education: Partners for Sustainable Development
11. The Paradox in Discourse and Praxis of Gender Equality: A Communicative Framework for Sustainable Development
12. Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: An Analytical Overview of Indian Experience (2000–2019)
13. Fostering Gender-Sensitive Programming and Practices Among Community Radios in India: The Road Ahead
14. Miscommunication of Harms? A Critique of SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production Implementation in the Food Sector in Northern Ireland
15. Fake News and SDG16: The Situation in Ghana
16.Communication for Sustainable Social Change and the Pursuit of Zero Hunger: The Food Sovereignty Language Frame
17. Internet Philanthropy as China’s ‘Digital Solution’ to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, Politics and Critique
18. Facts Aren’t Enough: Addressing Communication Challenges in the Pollinator Crisis and Beyond
Part 3:International Communication, Journalism and Sustainable Development
19. Egyptian TV Coverage of the Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS): Egypt Vision 2030
20. SDG #3: Communicating “Health for All” in German-Speaking Countries as Exemplified by HIV/AIDS Advertising Campaigns
21. Global Communication and Sustainable Development: From the Earth Summit in Rio 1992 to the Olympic Games in Rio 2016
22. A Comparative Analysis of American and Chinese News Media Coverage of Climate Change Issues over the Period 2007–2015
23. Running Ahead: Trump’s Presidency and Climate Change Discourses. Has Trump’s Presidency Changed Climate Change Discourses?: A Text Mining Analysis of Newspaper Contents in the United States
24. Communicating Development: News Coverage of the SDGs in the Nigerian Press
25. Selected Journalists’ Role Perception Towards Achieving Agenda 2030 in Nigeria
Part 4:Conclusion
26. Beyond the SDGs: From 2030 to 2050 Agenda for Development.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u and Jan Servaes have edited a most significant collection of essays for scholars and practitioners interested in the intersection of communication, international development, and the sustainable development goals. Comprehensive in nature and insightful in breadth, depth, and scope, this diverse volume will appeal to both the expert and the layperson.”

—-Arvind Singhal, Ph.D. is the Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Professor of Communication, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA

“This new book makes an important addition to the field of international communication and sustainable development because of the wide range of salient and topical subjects covered, and the points of views represented. When we thought that interest in the field was ebbing because of deservedly increasing attention on information technology and artificial intelligence, this new collection comes along to show that communication and development are perennially relevant in our society”

—-Professor Charles Okigbo, North Dakota State University, USA.

“The scenario suggests a thriller. A global pandemic threatens humanity. Who will tackle it? How will it affect life as we know it? What will its consequences be for the future of humankind? Yet, not for the first time in history, it is real-life and no one knows the full extent of the havoc that has been wreaked. Despite advances in technology and research between the Spanish Flu in 1914-18 and COVID-19 in 2020, the coronavirus still shocked the world. Worse still, the pandemic and its devastating impact has called into question whether the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be achieved by 2030. This book represents a compilation by leading thinkers in the field of communication for development. It recounts the evolution of the SDGs and various well-established approaches to understanding communication for development, providing international perspectives on the SDGs in various countries.

The editors conclude with several key recommendations based on lessons learned. First, that funding the SDGs remains a huge challenge. Second, that journalism for sustainable development must be deepened. Third, that technology plays a crucial role in development. And fourth, that the timeline for the SDGs has to be reconsidered.

The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development calls for a profound rethink of how development takes place on the ground, what its true aims should be, and how genuine communication underlies every one of the Sustainable Development Goals.”

—-Philip Lee, Co-Editor, Expanding Shrinking Communication Spaces (2020).