Lars Hallgren
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View article: The flipside of hope discourse: avoiding accountability and assigning responsibility in sustainability transitions
The flipside of hope discourse: avoiding accountability and assigning responsibility in sustainability transitions Open
Nowadays, environmental scholars and practitioners largely embrace the importance of characterizing environmental communication via messages of hope. Overall, research on hope and communication suggests that strategically designed hope mes…
View article: How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations: practices, concerns and new perspectives on environmental communication
How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations: practices, concerns and new perspectives on environmental communication Open
Communication is an integral part of natural resource management and sustainability transformations, and questions on how communication helps or hinders the development of more sustainable relationships between people and their environment…
View article: Meaning-making in the practice of collaboration: how implicit normative structures guide collaborative processes around contested natural resource issues
Meaning-making in the practice of collaboration: how implicit normative structures guide collaborative processes around contested natural resource issues Open
Although communication is considered crucial for collaboration in natural resource management (NRM), its role has so far been superficially studied. In this paper, we present a way to investigate this communication by focusing on its impli…
View article: When hope messages become the discursive norm: how repertoires of hope shape communicative capacity in conversations on the circular economy
When hope messages become the discursive norm: how repertoires of hope shape communicative capacity in conversations on the circular economy Open
Environmental communication research often conceptualises hope as an internal state of mind, suggesting that messages focused on hope can be used in strategic communication to foster environmental engagement. In this paper, we critique thi…
View article: “I don’t know if we should have that discussion now”
“I don’t know if we should have that discussion now” Open
Collaborative governance within natural resource management relies on dialogical forums where people can negotiate complex issues through conversations. In this paper, we investigate situations where procedural frames around these discussi…
View article: Between authority and argumentation: facilitators’ use of power in collaborative governance
Between authority and argumentation: facilitators’ use of power in collaborative governance Open
Facilitators of collaborative governance structure communication between stakeholders. They influence the process and, in some instances, also the outcome of collaborative governance. Even so, facilitators are, in the literature and in pra…
View article: Performing the Circular economy: How an ambiguous discourse is managed and maintained through meetings
Performing the Circular economy: How an ambiguous discourse is managed and maintained through meetings Open
The circular economy (CE) is seen as a structural solution to society's sustainability problems. But with a large diversity of definitions, CE is also often portrayed as immature or in need of conceptual synthesis. Rather than treating the…
View article: Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With Open
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View article: Communication Interventions and Fear of Brown Bears: Considerations of Content and Format
Communication Interventions and Fear of Brown Bears: Considerations of Content and Format Open
Communication interventions are commonly proposed as a way to address people's fear and negative attitudes to build tolerance in shared landscapes between humans and large carnivores. Therefore, managing authorities sometimes respond to pe…
View article: Communication Problems When Participants Disagree (or Avoid Disagreeing) in Dialogues in Swedish Natural Resource Management—Challenges to Agonism in Practice
Communication Problems When Participants Disagree (or Avoid Disagreeing) in Dialogues in Swedish Natural Resource Management—Challenges to Agonism in Practice Open
In this article, we analyze how participants perform disagreement in meetings organized with the explicit purpose of managing through dialogue conflicts concerning natural resources in Sweden. How is a conversation initiated about somethin…