Glossary

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• AccountabilityThe obligation of institutions, decision-makers, and external collaborators to answer to frontline communities for the impacts of their actions.
• AnecdoteA short, personal account of a specific incident, used in environmental storytelling to illustrate broader systemic harms or community resilience.
• AnonymityThe practice of withholding someone's personal identity to protect them from safety risks, retaliation, or emergent threats.
• AudienceThe specific group of people—such as policymakers, community members, or the general public—that a narrative is designed to reach and influence.
• AutonomyThe right and capacity of frontline communities and community-based organizations (CBOs) to make independent decisions about their stories, resources, and governance without external control.

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• B-RollSupplemental or background footage inserted alongside primary storytelling media to visually illustrate a community's environment, lived reality, or activism.