Explaining topic prevalence in answers to open-ended survey questions about climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 744-747

  Tvinnereim, Endre ^a   Fløttum, Kjersti ^b  

^a Uni Rokkan Centre   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; GENDER; KNOWLEDGE; PANEL DATA; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

NORWAY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937877530     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2663     Document Type: Article

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