'Energy security' and 'climate change': Constructing UK energy discursive realities

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 134-142

  Rogers Hayden, T ^a   Hatton, F ^a   Lorenzoni, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Critical Discourse Analysis; Energy security; Hegemonic discourse; Mitigation; New build nuclear power

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HEGEMONY; MITIGATION; NUCLEAR POWER; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78751704835     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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