Vigilant geography: Newspaper coverage of a wildfire at the Hanford nuclear site

Environmental Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 247-256

  Mercer, Douglas ^a   Prisbrey, Donna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; MEDIA ROLE; PERCEPTION; WILDFIRE;

HANFORD; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24644455863     PISSN: 14660466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1466046604000390     Document Type: Review

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