Imagining the future at the global and national scale: A comparative study of British and Dutch press coverage of Rio 1992 and Rio 2012

Environmental Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 468-488

  Hellsten, Iina ^a   Porter, Amanda J ^a   Nerlich, Brigitte ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; media; metaphors; newspapers; Rio; semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918796927     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.911197     Document Type: Article

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