Communicating environmental geoscience: introduction, D Liverman, C P G Pereira, & B Marker • Altered priorities ahead; or how to develop fruitful relationships with the media, T Nield • Media and scientific communication: a case of climate change, M T Boykoff • Good and bad practice in the communication of uncertainties associated with the relationship between climate change and weather-related natural disasters, R E T Ward • Community participation in natural risk prevention: case histories from Colombia, M Hermelin & G Bedoya • Guidelines for landslide hazard mapping in the Andes: speaking one language, Map:Gac Project • Lead contamination, the media and risk communication: a case study from the Ribeira Valley, Brazil, G M Di Giulio, N M Pereira & B R De Figueiredo • Communicating uncertainty in climate-change adaptation and decision support; further development of the Gdańsk case study, P Schmidt-Thomé & D Kaulbarsz • GeoSure; a bridge between geology and decision-makers, J C Walsby • The modelling and visualization of digital geoscientific data as a communication aid to land-use planning in the urban environment: an example from the Thames Gateway, K R Royse, H J Reeves & A R Gibson • Communication in geology: a personal perspective and lessons from volcanic, mining, exploration, geotechnical, police and geoforensic investigations, L J Donnelly • Hazard and vulnerability assessment and adaptive planning: mutual and multilateral community–researcher communication, Arctic Canada, N R Catto & K Parewick • Communicating geoscience to indigenous people: examples from the Solomon Islands, M G Petterson, D Tolia, S J Cronin & R Addison • Framing volcanic risk communication within disaster risk reduction: finding ways for the social and physical sciences to work together, J Barclay, K Haynes, T Mitchell, C Solana, R Teeuw, A Darnell, H S Crosweller, P Cole, D Pyle, C Lowe, C Fearnley & I Kelman • Communicating environmental geoscience; Australian communication pathways, C J Simpson • Communication of geoscience information in public administration: UK experiences, B Marker • Environmental geoscience; communication challenges, D G E Liverman • Index