Media context and reporting opportunities on climate change: 2012 versus 1988

Environmental Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 233-248

  Ungar, Sheldon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change communication

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EID: 84901004093     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.907193     Document Type: Article

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