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Towards Cosmopolitan Relational ‘Scales’ of Actoral Interconnectivity

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Risk Journalism between Transnational Politics and Climate Change

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The previous chapter addressed the dimensions of climate change as a globalized risk (Beck in World at risk, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2009), and it is argued that a globalized perspective requires a transnational methodological framework for assessing the new dimensions of interdependent risk journalism.

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Volkmer, I., Sharif, K. (2018). Towards Cosmopolitan Relational ‘Scales’ of Actoral Interconnectivity. In: Risk Journalism between Transnational Politics and Climate Change. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73308-1_3

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