Conspicuous redemption? Reflections on the promises and perils of the ‘Celebritization’ of climate change

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Geoforum

• Publication date

  2009-05-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Sociology, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2008.04.006
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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