Yesterday's dinner, tomorrow's weather, today's news? US newspaper coverage of food system contributions to climate change

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1006-1014

  Neff, Roni A ^a   Chan, Iris L ^a   Smith, Katherine Clegg ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Food system; Global warming; Media analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD; FOOD SECURITY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AWARENESS; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLIMATE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; STATISTICS; WEATHER;

ANIMALIA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AWARENESS; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLIMATE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

EID: 67651018648     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008003480     Document Type: Article

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