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Local natures? Climate change, beliefs, facts and norms

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Climatic Change, Volume: 133, Issue: 3, Pages: 525 - 533

Swansea University Author: Gideon Calder Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10584-015-1418-y

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It is banal to say that different beliefs provide the basis for different conceptions of the good and diverse ways of life, the protection of which will seem to many to be paramount as a matter of justice. But what happens when those beliefs are about global processes of the magnitude of those invol...

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ISSN: 0165-0009 1573-1480
Published: 2015
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