The Success and Failure of An Inconvenient Truth and the Stern Report in Influencing Australian Public Support for Greenhouse Policy

Economic Record

Volumn 87, Issue 277, 2011, Pages 269-281

  Morrison, Mark ^a   Hatfield Dodds, Steve ^b,c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79957449986     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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