The evolution of climate ideas and knowledge

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 581-597

  Heymann, Matthias ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; EARTH (PLANET);

CLIMATE SCIENCE; EARTH SYSTEMS; HIPPOCRATES; PUBLIC INTEREST; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS; SOCIAL PROCESS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; MECHANISTICS;

EARTH (PLANET); PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 79956260802     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.61     Document Type: Article

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