Knowledge into action: Framing the debates over climate change and poverty

Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-83

  Nisbet, Matthew C ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203864463     Document Type: Chapter

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