Defining issue-based publics for public engagement: Climate change as a case study

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 214-228

  Featherstone, Helen ^a   Weitkamp, Emma ^a   Ling, Katy ^a   Burnet, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERCEPTION; PILOT STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCIENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AWARENESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 59449085653     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662507082890     Document Type: Article

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