Representations of climate change in canadian national print media: The banalization of global warming

Canadian Review of Sociology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Young, Nathan ^a   Dugas, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 79551662670     PISSN: 17556171     EISSN: 1755618X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618X.2011.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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