Environmental communication in Mexico: between multidisciplinarity, practice, and socio-environmental conflict

| This article, based on a systematized bibliographic review of the scientific production published between 2000 and 2021, outlines a picture of environmental communication in Mexico, to establish a possible configuration of this field. Based on the analysis of 34 scientific articles, this paper describes the profile of the field in the current context, according to the predominant approaches, both in the observed professional practices, their research, their corresponding disciplines, and the goals and characteristics of their studies. The results show that Environmental Communication, as a discipline, has scant theoretical and methodological advances, and it is mainly made up by contributions from researchers in communication and natural sciences. The majority of this research is focused on the media's managing of environmental topics and the work of other disciplines that observe the need of including communication to address the different perspectives and situations involved in socioenvironmental issues. There is little reflection on the paradigms of contemporary environmentalism and the role of communication in socioenvironmental issues that would allow for research relevant to the national context.