Not Just a Coalmine: Shifting Grounds of Community Opposition to Coal Mining in Southeastern Australia

Ethnos

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 490-513

  Connor, Linda ^a   Freeman, Sonia ^b   Higginbotham, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

activism; Australia; climate change; Coal mining; community groups; environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951664311     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840903202132     Document Type: Article

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