Risk, responsibility, and blame: An analysis of vocabularies of motive in air-pollution(ing) discourses

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2175-2192

  Bickerstaff, Karen ^a   Walker, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; HEALTH RISK; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POLLUTION CONTROL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0036942753     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3521     Document Type: Article

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