Resisting and Reconciling Big Wind: Middle Landscape Politics in the New American West

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Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 754-776

  Phadke, Roopali ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Place; Rural geography; Social movements; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; ESTHETICS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RURAL ENERGY; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; WIND POWER;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955741959     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00881.x     Document Type: Article

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