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Scale and the construction of environmental imaginaries in local news

Mary LawhonDepartment of Geography, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Joseph PierceDepartment of Geography, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Roy BouwerDepartment of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Tshwane, South Africa
Pages 1-21 | Received 18 Aug 2015, Accepted 11 Jul 2016, Published online: 24 Oct 2016

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