Reason and rhetoric in climate communication

Environmental Politics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-16

  Dryzek, John S ^a   Lo, Alex Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; climate sceptics; climate change deniers; deliberative democracy; rhetoric

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOCRACY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY APPROACH;

EID: 84921844838     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.961273     Document Type: Article

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