Framing the flood: A media analysis of themes of resilience in the 2011 Brisbane flood

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 475-488

  Bohensky, Erin L ^a   Leitch, Anne M ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community; Discourse; Government; Learning; Natural disaster

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897028472     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0438-2     Document Type: Article

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