Introduction: From Public Participation to Community Engagement--and Beyond / Kathleen P. Hunt, Susan Senecah, Gregg B. Walker, and Stephen P. Depoe -- Opening Reflections. Health, the Environment, and Sustainability: Emergent Communication Lessons Across Highly Diverse Public Participation Activities / Linda Silka, Bridie McGreavy, and David D. Hart -- Section I. Exploring Dimensions of Participation Within Policy Frameworks. Listening and Learning: Stakeholder Views of Participation and Communication in Forest Planning / Gregg B. Walker, Steve Daniels, Sharon Timko, Carmine Lockwood, and Susan Hansen -- Rethinking Public Participation: The Case of Public Land Management in the American West / Matthew McKinney -- Speaking of Place: Analysis of Place-Based Discourse in Participatory Decision Making / Colene J. Lind -- Cultural Discourses of Public Participation: Insights for Democratic Design and Energy System Transformation / Lydia Reinig and Leah Sprain -- The Radical Potential of Public Participation Processes: Using Indecorous Voice and Resistance to Expand the Scope of Public Participation / Kathleen P. Hunt, Nicholas S. Paliewicz, and Danielle Endres -- Section II. Expanding Pathways of Community Engagement. Advancing Practical Theory in Environmental Communication: A Phronetic Analysis of Environmental Participation and Dialogue in New Zealand / Giles Dodson and Anna Palliser -- Toward Communicative Space: A Maritime Agora of Backrooms and Thoroughfares / Chui-Ling Tam -- Rare's Conservation Campaigns: Community Decision Making and Public Participation in Global Contexts / Sarah D. Upton, Carlos A. Tarin, Stacey K. Sowards, and Kenneth C. C. Yang -- Fracking, the Elsipogtog First Nation, and Disruptive Public Participation: The Role of Images in Amplifying Outrage on Twitter / Molly Simis-Wilkinson and Jill E. Hopke -- Section III. Enacting Horizons of Civic Technology. Sustainable Stories: Integrated Transmedia as an Ecology of Storymaking / Tyler Quiring -- Eco-Apps and Environmental Public Participation / Eli Typhina.