Bad weather: On planetary crisis

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-40

  Masco, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere; Climate change; Earth sciences; Hurricane Katrina; National security; Nuclear war; Nuclear winter; Radioactive fallout

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949533762     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312709341598     Document Type: Article

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