A group of international communication and environmental specialists have put together a reader on environmental communication (EnvCom) that show-cases related concepts, success stories and lessons learned in this field. The book, written in a non-academic language, lobbies for the recognition, support and replication of «best practices» in EnvCom with policy and decision makers of donor and receiver organizations, especially in Third World countries. Readers who may most benefit from the book are middle management planners at NGOs, government agencies, and development organizations who run environmental projects as they will learn how to integrate EnvCom as a management tool into planning and implementation. This will also be relevant to environmental project staff of those organizations who are supposed to put communication and non-formal education into practice.

The Editors: Manfred Oepen completed studies of communication and political studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and at Stanford University in the United States. Between 1984 and 1993, he managed projects with integrated media support systems in Indonesia in both rural and urban community development and environmental contexts. Since 1992, he is general manager of a private consulting company (ACT – Appropriate Communication in Development), where he oversees development and environmental communication related projects. Winfried Hamacher holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Social Sciences from the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bochum, Germany. He worked as a teacher and as a free lance lecturer from 1982-87, and at a professional school in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 1988-90. He has been working for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) since 1991.