Solar festivals and climate bills: Comparing NGO climate change campaigns in the UK and Australia

Voluntas

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 317-338

  Hall, Nina L ^a   Taplin, Ros ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Environmental nongovernment organizations; Global warming; NGOs; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 37049039689     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-007-9050-8     Document Type: Article

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