Climate change in literature and literary criticism

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-200

  Trexler, Adam ^a   Johns Putra, Adeline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNOLOGY;

CRITICAL MODES; CRITICAL TASKS; DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79961237647     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.105     Document Type: Article

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