Global warming and sociology

Current Sociology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Lever Tracy, Constance ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Multidisciplinarity; Science; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749106947     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392107088238     Document Type: Article

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