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Selva sedienta: La paradoja hídrica de la región panamazónica

Carolina Martínez Molina et al.

Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte; Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM); Catholic Media Council (CAMECO); Fundación IPSA (2025), 161 pp.

"Este prediagnóstico tiene como objetivo ofrecer un panorama detallado sobre el agua y los recursos hídricos en la Amazonía. Buscamos explorar la magnitud y las características singulares de la red hidrográfica, los usos vitales que proporciona al ecosistema y a las poblaciones, así como las a ... more

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Chancen und Herausforderungen der redaktionellen Umsetzung von Audience Engagement – eine Fallstudie am Beispiel des Projektes #unserWasser

Bernadette Uth

Publizistik, volume 69 (2024), pp. 39-63

"Redaktionen müssen angesichts einer zunehmend fragmentierten Publikumsbeziehung neue Wege finden, ihre Rezipierenden an sich zu binden. Eine in diesem Kontext oftmals diskutierte Strategie ist die des Audience- Engagements. Im Rahmen einer Fallstudie untersucht dieser Beitrag Chancen und Herausfor ... more

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Africa-Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation

Chux Daniels, Benedikt Erforth, Chloe Teevan (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxiii, 247 pp.

"Digital transformations have had catalytic efects on African and European governance, economies, and societies, and will continue to do so. The COVID-19 pandemic has already accelerated the penetration of digital tools all over the globe and is likely to be perceived as a critical juncture in how a ... more

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Conflict narratives in the news and digital spaces: The dangerous placebo of geopolitical power and their digital news versus technology effects on stories of water and border disuptes in Africa

Loubna Mckouar

Africa No Filter (2022), iii, 31 pp.

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty

Sandra L. Borden (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 478 pp.

"The book is divided into five sections that examine philosophical principles for reporting on poverty, the history and nature of poverty coverage, problematic representations of people experiencing poverty, poverty coverage as part of reporting on public policy, and positive possibilities for pover ... more

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Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good

Matteo Cernison

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 241 pp.

"This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, thi ... more

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The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response

Geneva: Sphere Association, 4th ed. (2018), x, 406 pp.

"The Sphere Handbook is marking its 20th anniversary with the publication of this fourth edition. It is the result of an intense year-long mobilisation of humanitarian actors around the globe and reflects two decades of experience using the standards in front-line operations, policy development and ... more

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Communication for Water Sector Reform: Obstacles and Opportunities

Karla Chaman, Tracey Miller, Paul Mitchell

Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), vi, 16 pp.

"This Learning Note is published by the Operational Communications Division in the World Bank’s External Affairs Vice Presidency. It aims to help task managers communicate with service providers as they prepare for an urban water supply reform project. The focus is on how strategic public communic ... more

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The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia

Keya Acharya, Frederick Noronha (eds.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xv, 303 pp.

"This is the first book on environmental journalism in South Asia. It provides an important benchmark for journalism in the region as well as an excellent source of material for the future evolution of environmental journalism. This is a collection of essays by prominent Indian and South Asian envir ... more

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Contemporary Issues in South Africa: A Toolkit for Journalists

Tanya Farber

Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2009), 60 pp.

"In today’s climate in the media industry, reporters are expected to cover a broad range of issues. They no longer have the luxury of concentrating on a small piece of a larger puzzle, and at times, they may feel as if they need a better understanding of the background information before moving fo ... more

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Reporting Water in Southern Africa: A Media Guide to Managing Our Water Resources

Harare: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC); Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa (IMERCSA) (2009), 120 pp.

"Most of the current water problems in southern Africa arise from inadequate or improper management of water resources, rather than shortages. Thus it is essential to raise awareness of water availability and use, and of management approaches that are sustainable. A challenge for media practitioners ... when researching water issues is the problem that accessible sources of information tend to be cluttered with scientific and technical jargon. Statements commonly used in water expert circles often tend to be misunderstood or lose their meaning outside the profession, such as “…Water sustains ecosystems that provide valuable services to both the environment and people.” While water professionals and academics may get their information through peer-reviewed publications, specialist websites and water workshops, the public obtains knowledge of water management from television, radio, newspapers, magazines and sometimes through opinion leaders in their communities. The Internet is also becoming a useful tool in the search for knowledge about water resources due to its ability to offer access to large and varied amounts of information, although this can also be a liability, causing information overload. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), which is a holistic approach to managing water and related resources, is widely discussed among water academics, practitioners and professionals involved in the management of water resources, who consider water an abundant “good” with social, economic and environmental value. While the IWRM concept is not well appreciated among some policy makers and the public, the media is quickly catching on to reporting the many users and uses, and on the need to foster economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability in water resources management [...] It is thus the intention of this media guide to demonstrate that water reporting is not a technical specialisation but a bread-and-butter debate of today and tomorrow. This guide does not intend to make scientists out of journalists or the public, but to offer a quick reference to the main issues and policies as applied in southern Africa, to suggest ways to cut through the jargon, and to provide further references for reading and contacts for interviews." (Introduction, pages 9-10) more

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Regional Awareness and Communication Strategy for the SADC Water Sector

Southern African Development Community (SADC) (ed.)

Southern African Development Community (SADC) (2008), 54 pp.

"This Awareness and Communication Strategy fulfils the call for establishing sector specific (Water Sector) strategies and crafting, packaging and dissemination of messages and themes which should be based on but not limited to SADC’s priority intervention areas. It is basically expanding the SADC ... more

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People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
Inspiring Practice

Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp.

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N ... RM, particularly in Asia and Africa. There are many approaches and practices in development communication, and most of them have been implemented in the field of environment and natural resource management. But, even when considering participatory approaches in NRM, communication is often limited to information dissemination activities that mainly use printed materials, radio programmes and educational videos to send messages, explain technologies or illustrate activities. These approaches, with their strengths and weaknesses, have been well documented. Participatory development communication takes another perspective. This form of communication facilitates participation in a development initiative identified and selected by a community, with or without the external assistance of other stakeholders. The terminology has been used in the past by a number of scholars to stress the participatory approach of communication in contrast with its more traditional diffusion approach. Others refer to similar approaches as participatory communication for development, participatory communication or communication for social change. In this publication, participatory development communication is considered to be a planned activity that is based on participatory processes and on media and interpersonal communication. This communication facilitates dialogue among different stakeholders around a common development problem or goal. The objective is to develop and implement a set of activities that contribute to a solution to the problem or the realization of a goal, and which support and accompany this initiative. This kind of communication requires moving from a focus on information and persuasion to facilitating exchanges between different stakeholders to address a common problem, to develop a concrete initiative for experimenting with possible solutions, and to identify the partnerships, knowledge and materials needed to support these solutions." (Preface) more

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Water and Indigenous Peoples

Rutgerd Boelens, Moe Chiba, Douglas Nakashima, Vanessa Retana (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO; Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) (2006), 179 pp.

"Indigenous peoples from all corners of the globe continue to struggle for acknowledgement and recognition of their unique visions of water, both at home and in national, regional and international forums. But almost without exception, their voices remain obscured by a mainstream discourse rooted in ... more

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Communication Strategy for the Water Sector Reform Program in Kenya

Water Sector Reform Secretariat (ed.)

Kenya Ministry of Water Resources Management and Development (2004), 68 pp.

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Communication Strategies for Heightening Awareness of Water: Report 2 of IHP II Project Cl (on Heightening Awareness of the Socio-Economic Role of Water)

B. Sadler (ed.)

UNESCO (1987), x, 25 pp.

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management Inspiring Practice

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
Inspiring Practice