Integrating media studies of climate change into transdisciplinary research: Which direction should we be heading?

Environmental Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 179-196

  Smith, Hollie M ^a   Lindenfeld, Laura ^b  

^a Department of Communication and Journalism Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center University of Maine ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

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media

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EID: 84901028809     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.906479     Document Type: Article

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