Transatlantic Risk Perceptions, Public Health, and Environmental Concerns: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?

The State of the European Union Vol. 7: With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kurzer, Paulette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Genetically modified organism; Institutions; Risk perception; Tobacco; Transgenic food

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921675295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199283958.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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