Environmental News in South America; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Extraction, National Development and Environmental News in Twenty-first-century South America; Latin American Environmental Communication; Political Ecology and Neo-extractivism in the News; Social Constructions, Frames and Claims; References; 2 News, Conflict and Environment as Social Constructions; Socially Constructed News and Environmental Conflicts; Indexing; Framing; Culture and Ideology; Methods; Content Analysis; Coincidence Analysis; Interviews; Notes; References

3 Ecuador and the Chevron Case: Spinning Risk, Hazard and RewardConflict and Contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon; Social Constructions, Frames and Claims; Risk Words; "There are No Winners"; References; 4 Brazil and the Belo Monte Dam: "The Amazon Is Ours"; Unable to See the Forest for the Trees; "Amazonia Is Ours"; "It's a Free for All"; "A Cascade of Problems"; All that Glitters; "Power Is a Game of Push and Pull"; Notes; References; 5 Chile's Pascua Lama: Where Water Is Worth More than Gold; The Gold Rush; In the Shadow of Pinochet; Thirt; Note; References

6 Mediated Neo-extractivism and National DevelopmentElite Urban Constructions of Rural Realities; Culture, Routines and Structures: "There Are Reporters Who Think They Sell Bread"; Conclusions; References; Index