From "burning library" to "green medicine": The role of metaphors in communicating biodiversity

Science Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 229-245

  Väliverronen, Esa ^a   Hellsten, Iina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038388922     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107554702237848     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (58)

1. Baumann, M., J. Bell, F. Koechlin, and M. Pimbert, eds. 1996. The life industry: Biodiversity, people and profits. London: Intermediate Technology.
2. Black, M. 1962. Models and metaphors: Studies in language and philosophy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
3. Bono, J. 1990. Science, discourse, and literature. The role/rule of metaphor in science. In Literature and science: Theory & practice, edited by S. Peterfreund, 59-89. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
4. Bowker, G. 2000. Biodiversity datadiversity. Social Studies of Science 30 (5): 643-83.
5. Bucchi, M. 1998. Science and the media: Alternative routes in scientific communication. London: Routledge.
6. Cheng, V. 1995. 328 useful drugs are said to lie hidden in tropical forests. The New York Times, 27 June, p. C4.
7. Chiappe, D. L. 1998. Similarity, relevance, and the comparison process. Metaphor and Symbol 13 (1): 17-30.
8. Collins, C., and S. Kephart. 1995. Science as news: The emergence and framing of biodiversity. Mass Communication Review 22 (1-2): 21-45.
9. Ehrlich, P. R. 1992. Environmental deterioration, biodiversity and the preservation of civilization. Environmentalist 12 (1): 9-14.
10. Evans, P. 1992. Environment post Rio: What is this thing called life? The Guardian, 21 August, p. 23.
11. _. 1993. Agenda: Survival has become a matter of economics. The Guardian, 21 May, p. 19.
12. Fernandez, J., ed. 1991. Beyond metaphor: The theory of tropes in anthropology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
13. Gray, K. 1993. The ambivalence of property. In Threats without enemies: Facing environmental insecurity, edited by G. Prins, 150-70. London: Earthscan.
14. Haila, Y. 1999. Biodiversity and the divide between culture and nature. Biodiversity and Conservation 8:165-81.
15. Hajer, M. 1995. The politics of environmental discourse: Ecological modernization and the policy process. Oxford, UK: Clarendon.
16. Hannigan, J. 1995. Environmental sociology: A social constructionist perspective. London: Routledge.
17. Hellsten, I. 2000. Dolly: Scientific breakthrough or Frankenstein's monster? Scientific and journalistic metaphors of cloning. Metaphor and Symbol 15 (4): 213-21.
18. Hesse, M. 1970. The explanatory function of metaphor. In Logic, methodology and philosophy in science, edited by Y. Bar-Hillel, 249-59. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: North-Holland.
19. Heywood, V. H., and R. T. Watson, eds. 1995. Global biodiversity assessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. Jeffries, M. 1997. Biodiversity and conservation. London: Routledge.
21. Kaennel, M. 1998. Biodiversity: A diversity in definition. In Assessment of biodiversity for improved forest planning, edited by P. Bachmann et al., 71-81. Joensuu, Finland: European Forest Institute.
22. Kay, L. 1999. In the beginning was the word? The genetic code and the book of life. In The science studies reader, edited by M. Bagioli, 224-33. London: Routledge.
23. Killingsworth, M. J., and J. S. Palmer. 1992. Ecospeak: Rhetoric and environmental politics in America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
24. Lakoff, G., and M. Johnson. 1980. Metaphors we live by. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
25. Lewis, T. 2000. Media representations of "sustainable development." Science Communication 21:244-73.
26. Livesey, S. 1999. McDonald's and the Environmental Defense Fund: A case study of a green alliance. Journal of Business Communication 36 (1): 5-39.
27. Luoma, J. R. 1991.Taxonomy, lacking in prestige, may be nearing a renaissance. The New York Times, 10 December, p. C4.
28. Maasen, S. 1994. Who is afraid of metaphors? In Biology as society, society as biology: Metaphors, edited by S. Maasen, E. Mendelsohn, and P. Weingart, 11-35. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer.
29. Maasen, S., and P. Weingart. 1995. Metaphors-Messengers of meaning: A contribution to an evolutionary sociology of science. Science Communication 17:9-31.
30. _. 2000. Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge. London: Routledge.
31. Macnaghten, P., and J. Urry. 1998. Contested natures. London: Sage Ltd.
32. Mayr, E. 1982. The growth of biological thought: Diversity, evolution, and inheritance. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.
33. Mazur, A., and J. Lee. 1993. Sounding the global alarm: Environmental issues in the US national news. Social Studies of Science 23:681-720.
34. Muir, S. A. 1994. The web and the spaceship: Metaphors of the environment. ETC: A Review of General Semantics 51:145-53.
35. Murray, M. 1993. The value of biodiversity. In Threats without enemies: Facing environmental insecurity, edited by G. Prins, 66-84. London: Earthscan.
36. Myers, N. 1993. For dear life. The Guardian, 10 June, pp. 12-13.
37. _. 1995. Biodiversity: Bugs in the system. The Guardian, 19 October, p. 8.
38. Myerson, G., and Y. Rydin. 1996. The language of environment: A new rhetoric. London: UCL Press.
39. Papineau, D. 1992. In the footsteps of the dodo. Book review of E. O. Wilson's The Diversity of Life. The New York Times, 4 October, p. 7:1.
40. Pearce, D., and D. Moran. 1994. The economic value of biodiversity. London: Earthscan.
41. Radford, T. 1994. Till death us do part. The Guardian, 2 June, p. S6.
42. _. 1995. World losing three species every hour. The Guardian, 18 February, p. 8.
43. _. 1997. Alarm grows as mankind wipes out species in their thousands. The Guardian, 24 October, p. 1.
44. Reid, W. V., A. Sittenfeld, S. A. Laird, D. H. Janzen, C. A. Meyer, M. A. Collin, R. Gatnaz, and C. Juma. 1993. Biodiversity prospecting: Using genetic resources for sustainable development. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
45. Schneider, K. 1992. U.S. to reject pact on protection of wildlife and global resources. The New York Times, 29 May, p. 1:1.
46. Shiva, V. 1993. The greening of the global reach. In Global ecology: A new arena of political conflict, edited by W. Sachs, 149-56. London: Zed.
47. Stevens, W. 1991. Species loss: Crisis or false alarm? The New York Times, 20 August, p. C1.
48. Takacs, D. 1996. The idea of biodiversity: Philosophies of paradise. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
49. Tuxill, J. 1998. Losing strands in the web of life. Worldwatch Paper 141. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.
50. UK Systematics Forum. 1998. The web of life: A strategy for systematic biology in the United Kingdom. London: UK Systematics Forum.
51. Väliverronen, E. 1998. Biodiversity and the power of metaphor in environmental issues. Science Studies 11 (1): 19-34.
52. von Weiszäcker, C. 1996. Biodiversity newspeak. In The life industry: Biodiversity, people and profits, edited by M. Baumann, J. Bell, F. Koechlin, and M. Pimbert, 53-68. London: Intermediate Technology.
53. Weingart, P., A. Engels, and P. Pansegrau. 2000. Risks of communication: Discourses on climate change in science, politics, and the mass media. Public Understanding of Science 9:261-83.
54. Weingart, P., and P. Pansegrau. 1999. Reputation in science and prominence in the media: The Goldhagen debate. Public Understanding of Science 8:1-16.
55. Wilson, E. O., ed. 1988. Biodiversity. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
56. _. 1992. The diversity of life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
57. World Commission on Environment and Development. 1987. Our common future. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
58. Yoon, C. K. 1995. Monumental inventory of insects in a Costa Rican forest is under way. The New York Times, 11 July, p. C4.