'Signals' from pre-crisis discourse: Lessons from UK flooding for global environmental policy change?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 323-339

  Penning Rowsell, Edmund ^a   Johnson, Clare ^a   Tunstall, Sylvia ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crises; Discourse; Floods; Lessons; Policy change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FLOOD; POLICY MAKING; SIGNAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750043216     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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