We speak for the trees: Media reporting on the environment

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 34, Issue , 2009, Pages 431-457

  Boykoff, Maxwell T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Cultural politics; Discourse; Governance; News

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL LINKS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; MEDIA COVERAGE; MEDIA REPORTING; MEDIA REPRESENTATION; MULTISCALES; NONLINEAR WAYS; PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 77149168781     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.environ.051308.084254     Document Type: Article

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