Political ambiguity in Chinese climate change discourses

Environmental Values

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 755-776

  Lo, Alex Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Climate change; Discourse; Political activism; Q methodology; Youth environmentalism

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; PLANNING METHOD; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VIEW;

CHINA;

EID: 84947207169     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: 17527015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327115X14420732702653     Document Type: Article

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