Drought and declining reservoirs: Comparing media discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002-2004

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-113

  Sonnett, John ^a   Morehouse, Barbara J ^a   Finger, Thomas D ^a   Garfin, Gregg ^a   Rattray, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Discourse; Drought; Framing; Newspapers; Temporal and spatial scales

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; MEDIA ROLE; RESERVOIR;

ARIZONA; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31844448266     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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