Narrating Sustainability through Storytelling

<p>Stories and narratives are powerful tools for explaining the world around us. This book explores storytelling as a way of engaging audiences with sustainable development issues and reflects on the opportunities and limitations of storytelling for sustainability as an innovative approach to sustainability communication. </p><p>Bringing together voices and perspectives from research and practice, this volume explores the ways in which storytelling can support change toward sustainability. Unlike other anthologies, the book first provides a sound scientific basis by unfolding the storytelling approach and presenting empirical studies on its impact on effects. It clarifies important terms and presents recent findings on the impact of storytelling on sustainability from an extensive 3-year research project on this question. The second part shows how storytelling can be used in different fields of practice to communicate sustainability in more engaging and effective ways. Here, the main focus is on not only case-based accounts of positive change, but also tensions, arising from the application of storytelling for sustainability in journalism, higher education, corporate communication, or science communication. </p><p>Combining theory with practical examples, this innovative book will be a great resource for students and scholars of environmental communication and sustainable development, as well as professionals working in related fields.</p> <p>FOREWORD</p><p>Sustainability Communication "Like Gold"?<br><i>Thomas Pyhel</i></p><p>PROLOGUE</p><p>Of Sustainability and Storytelling – An Introduction to this Book<br><i>Anna Sundermann, Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Hanna Selm</i></p><p>PART I: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES</p><p>Chapter 1. SusTelling: Storytelling for Sustainability<br><i>Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Hanna Selm, Martin Storksdieck, Anna Sundermann </i></p><p>Chapter 2. Does SusTelling for Sustainability Work? An Experiment<br><i>Anna Sundermann, Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Daniel Hanss, Hanna Selm</i></p><p>Chapter 3. SusTelling in the Reception Lab – On How Young Adults Perceive Storytelling<br><i>Sonja Fücker, Daniel Fischer, Hanna Selm, Anna Sundermann</i></p><p>PART II: PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES</p><p>Chapter 4. Telling Your Own Stories: Teaching and Learning Storytelling<br><i>Hanna Selm, Daniel Fischer, Heike Janßen, Torsten Schäfer, Anna Sundermann, Sonja Fücker</i></p><p>Chapter 5. SusTelling in Higher Education<br><i>Petra Molthan-Hill, Daniel Fischer</i></p><p>Chapter 6. SusTelling and Constructive Journalism: A Perfect Pair?<br><i>Maren Urner</i></p><p>Chapter 7. Learning from Humboldt – Storytelling as a Method of Science Communication<br><i>Dorothee Menhart, Sabine Hoscislawski</i></p><p>Chapter 8. Storytelling in Corporate Communications – When, Why, and How Storytelling Works in Personnel Training<br><i>Jennifer Fritz</i></p><p>EPILOGUE</p><p>Storytelling for Sustainability: A Preliminary Conclusion <br><i>Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Hanna Selm, Anna Sundermann</i></p><p>Index</p>