COMMUNICATING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: The cultural politics of climate change news coverage around the world

The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 221-231

  Boykoff, Maxwell T ^a   McNatt, Marisa B ^a   Goodman, Michael K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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