Responding to Climate Change: Barriers to Reflexive Modernization in U.S. Agriculture

Organization and Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 308-327

  Stuart, Diana ^a   Schewe, Rebecca L ^b   McDermott, Matthew ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; climate change; corn production; fertilizer; political economy; reflexive modernization; reflexivity; risk society; social construction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MODERNIZATION; NITROGEN; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867663416     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026612456536     Document Type: Article

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