Asking about climate change: Reflections on methodology in qualitative climate change research published in Global Environmental Change since 2000

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 402-409

  Nielsen, Jonas Ø ^a,b   D'haen, Sarah Ann Lise ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change research; Global Environmental Change; Interdisciplinary research; Qualitative methods; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894341459     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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