Not in our back yard: Media coverage of community opposition to mobile phone towers - An application of Sandman's outrage model of risk perception

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 614-620

  Chapman, Simon ^a   Wutzke, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031433157     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1997.tb01765.x     Document Type: Article

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