Computers, citizens and climate change: The art of communicating technical issues

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 266-289

  Pereira, Angela Guimarães ^a   Gough, Clair ^a,c   De Marchi, Bruna ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Istituto Di Sociologia Internazionale Di Gorizia   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT); INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032690979     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.1999.002261     Document Type: Article

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