Debating clean energy: Frames, counter frames, and audiences

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1225-1232

  Aklin, Michaël ^a   Urpelainen, Johannes ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Clean energy; Climate change; Counter frames; Frames; Public opinion; Survey experiments

Indexed keywords

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; SURVEY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886728697     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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