Global warming in the public sphere

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1860, 2007, Pages 2741-2776

  Corfee Morlot, Jan ^a,c   Maslin, Mark ^a   Burgess, Jacquelin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Co construction of knowledge; Environmental policy; Global warming; Social theory and the environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948975746     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2084     Document Type: Article

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