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Burning forests: the wood pellet industry’s framing of sustainability and its shadow places

Author: Etsuko Kinefuchi

Date: 2022

Location: Array

Language: English

Type of resource: Academic article

Topics: Sustainable energy

This paper examines the woody biomass industry’s construction of sustainability by focusing on the case of the world’s largest wood pellet company, Enviva. Following ecolinguistics and framing theory, the first part of the paper examines the company’s website and social media presence to unpack the frames that Enviva engages to communicate its sustainability. Then, the paper turns to the spheres of life that the company omits from its framing but are crucial to the conceptualization of sustainability from an ecojustice perspective.

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Organization: Frontiers in Communication