Human geographies of climate change: Landscape, temporality, and lay knowledges

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 284-302

  Brace, Catherine ^a   Geoghegan, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; everyday life; landscape; lay knowledge; temporality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE;

EID: 79956070419     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132510376259     Document Type: Article

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