Risk versus national pride: Conflicting discourses over the construction of a High Voltage Power Station in the athens metropolitan area for demands of the 2004 olympics

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-142

  Karamichas, John ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Deep' 'light' green; Civil society; Environmental mobilizations; Mega events; New social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344444729     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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