Flint in crisis: Investigating environmental crisis communication response strategies

Abstract

Courses

Undergraduate courses in environmental communication, with crisis communication or public relations variations.

Objectives

After completing this unit activity, students will have a better understanding of how communication contributes to the complexity and interconnections of environmental challenges by exploring crisis communication response strategies in the Flint water crisis.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Drs. Kajsa Dalrymple, Becky Hayes and Cheri Simonds for their thoughtful comments on the manuscript. I would also like to thank the Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Education who awarded the initial activity an honorable mention during their inaugural teaching awards.