The flood myth in the age of global climate change

Environmental Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-61

  Salvador, Michael ^a   Norton, Todd ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apocalyptic; Culture; Environmental Activism; Flood Myth; Jeremiad; Rhetoric; Social Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951931448     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2010.544749     Document Type: Article

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