Another Angle on Pollution Experience: Toward an Anthropology of the Emotional Ecology of Risk Mitigation

Ethos

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-452

  Little, Peter C ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Mitigation; Risk experience; Toxic environments; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868306195     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: 15481352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2012.01269.x     Document Type: Article

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