3 -  Towards an Environmental Communication Conceptual Model for Enabling Socio-economic Development in Africa

Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo

doi:10.57054/amr.v12i2.5113

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2004): Africa Media Review, Volume 12, n° 2, 2004

Issue Published : December 28, 2021

3 - Towards an Environmental Communication Conceptual Model for Enabling Socio-economic Development in Africa

https://doi.org/10.57054/amr.v12i2.5113

Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo

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Africa Media Review, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2004): Africa Media Review, Volume 12, n° 2, 2004
Article Published : May 20, 2004

Abstract

Africa has vast natural and human resources and thus great potential for socioeconomic development. Yet, very few countries on the continent have been able to utilise their resources fully and to reap the expected benefits from that potential. Many of the factors for this failure to boost socio-economic development and improve the lives of individuals and groups on the continent have been well documented. However, one factor that is often glossed over is the role of negative environmental behaviour on development. This paper argues that there is a strong
relationship between the two and suggests a viable framework for integrating these two issues/ areas by providing a theoretical model for incorporating environmental communication, and subsequently environmental consciousness, into socio-economic development programmes.

Keywords

Environmental communication communication for environmental consciousness development communication and environment

Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo. (2004). 3 - Towards an Environmental Communication Conceptual Model for Enabling Socio-economic Development in Africa. Africa Media Review, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.57054/amr.v12i2.5113

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Ansah, P. A.V. (1985) GBC Golden Jubilee Lectures. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation.

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International Journal of Social Economics, 27, 2, 114-133.

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Berscheid, E. and Walster, E. H. (1978). Interpersonal attraction. (2nd edition), Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley.

Boateng, A.B. (1993) ‘Moderating the interface: Media role in environmental management in Ghana’.

In S.T.K. Boafo (ed.), Media and environment in Africa—Challenges for the future. Nairobi: ACCE (pp. 45–51).

Borden, R.J. and A. P. Schettino (1979) ‘Determinants of environmentally re- sponsible behaviour’. The Journal of Environmental Education, 10, 35–39. Gooch, G.D. (1996) ‘Environmental concern and the Swedish Press: A case study of the effects of newspaper reporting, personal experience and social interac- tion on the public’s perception of environmental risks’. European Journal ofCommunication, 11 (1), 107–127.

Grob, A. (1995) ‘A structural model for environmental attitudes and behaviour, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 15, 209–220.

Katzev, R.D. and T.R. Johnson (1984) ‘Comparing the effects of monetary in- centives and foot-in-the-door strategies in promoting residential electricity conservation’. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 14, 12–27.

Kwansah-Aidoo, K. (2003) ‘Environmentalism and cultural change: The role of the mass media’. In W. J. Tettey, K. Puplampu, & B. Berman (eds) Critical perspectives on politics and socio-economic development in Ghana. Leiden: Brill Publishers (pp. 389–411).

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Nwosu, I.E. (1993) ‘Disseminating information on environmental issues and problems in rural Africa: Towards an integrated model’. In Boafo, S.T.K. (ed.) Media and environment in Africa: Challenges for the future. Nairobi: ACCE (pp. 11–21).

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Johnson (1990). ‘Studies of individual environmental concern: The role of knowledge, gender and

background variables’. Environment and Behaviour, 22, 767–786.

Suhonen, P. (1993) ‘Environmental issues, the Finnish major press, and public opinion’. Gazette, 51, 91–112.

Szagun, G., and V. Pavlov (1995) ‘Environmental awareness: A comparative study of German and

Russian adolescents’. Youth and Society, 27 (1), 93–112.

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Timberlake, L. (1985) Africa in crisis – the causes, the cures of environmental bankruptcy. Earthscan. UK: Russel Press.

United Nations Development Program (1997) Human Development Report. New York: Oxford University Press.

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