Scholars
Maria Isabel Espinoza Paredes
Michigan State University
Based in
United States
North America
Dr. Maria Isabel Espinoza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her areas of expertise are the sociology of climate change, environmental communication, and the climate and health nexus.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United States PeruFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate policy and politics Communications research Climate JusticePublications
Book
Aronczyk, M. and Espinoza, M.I. 2022. A Strategic Nature. Public Relations and The Politics of American Environmentalism. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-strategic-nature-9780190055356?cc=gb&lang=en&
Book Chapters
Aronczyk, M., and Espinoza, M.I. (Forthcoming) Climate Change and Public Relations Firms. Routledge Handbook on Climate Change & Society, 2nd Edition.
Journal Articles
Espinoza, M.I. 2021. “Conflicting diagnostic and prognostic framing of epidemics? Newspaper representations of dengue as a public health problem.” Social Science & Medicine 289, 114398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114398
Espinoza, M.I. and Aronczyk, M. 2021. “Big data for climate action or climate action for big data?”Big Data & Society 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720982032
Aronczyk, M. and Espinoza, M.I. 2019. “Sustainable communication: Green PR and the export of corporate environmentalism, 1989–1997.” Environmental Sociology 5(3), 308-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2018.1564455
Brechin, S.R. and Espinoza, M.I. 2017. “A case for further refinement of the Green Climate Fund’s 50:50 ratio climate change mitigation and adaptation allocation framework: Toward a more targeted approach.” Climatic Change 142, 311–320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-017-1938-8