Visual climate change communication: From iconography to locally framed 3D visualization

Environmental Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 413-432

  Schroth, Olaf ^a   Angel, Jeannette ^b   Sheppard, Stephen ^b   Dulic, Aleksandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

attitudes; climate change; educational games; images; landscape change; visual communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918823722     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.906478     Document Type: Article

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