Environmental Justice Storytelling: Angels and Isotopes at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Antipode

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 417-435

  Houston, Donna ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activism; Contaminated landscapes; Environmental justice; Imaginative spaces; Nuclear waste; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; CONTAMINATED LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 84873522468     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01006.x     Document Type: Article

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