How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the camp for climate action (UK)

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 194-215

  Schlembach, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activism; aviation; climate change; coal; state

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79954538990     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018310395922     Document Type: Article

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