(Im)mobility and environment-society relations: Arguments for and against the 'mobilisation' of environmental sociology

Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 237-254

  Rau, Henrike ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Environmental sociology; Immobility; Inter and transdisciplinarity; Mobility; Mobility turn

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870018244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0_14     Document Type: Chapter

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