Belonging to the rainbow region: Place, local media, and the construction of civil and moral identities strategic to climate change adaptability

Environmental Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-79

  Ward, Susan ^a,b   Van Vuuren, Kitty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Creative Class; Independent Media; Landscape; Place identity; Regional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878312981     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2012.753098     Document Type: Article

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