Embodied experiences of environmental and climatic changes in landscapes of everyday life in Ghana

Emotion, Space and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-25

  Tschakert, Petra ^a   Tutu, Raymond ^a   Alcaro, Anna ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Endemic sense of place; Hollow homes; Internal migration; Landscapes of everyday life; Solastalgia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877130443     PISSN: 17554586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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