Narratives in climate change discourse

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Fløttum, Kjersti ^a   Gjerstad, Øyvind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ANALYTICAL TOOL; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT; INITIAL SITUATION; LINGUISTIC APPROACH; NARRATIVE ANALYSIS; POLICY FRAMEWORK; PUBLIC OPINIONS; RECENT RESEARCHES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; POLICY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85006910732     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.429     Document Type: Review

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