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Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

Abstract

Nowadays, environmental communication is known as one of the important fields in development communication and has attracted the attention of a large number of communication scholars.
In this article, the concept of sustainable development and the importance of environment in this developmentare reviewed and then environmental communication as a subset of development communication is introduced. Once the definition, history, and features of this field are presented, the research topics in that domain are also introduced. Further, communicating the environment is discussed through a review of the meaning of theconcept and environment and their relations to media.The final part of the article is dedicated to suggesting some potential topics to Iranian communication and media studies scholars

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