Understanding climate change risk and vulnerability in northern forest-based communities

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2252-2261

  Davidson, Debra J ^a   Williamson, Tim ^b   Parkins, John R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FOREST BASED COMMUNITIES; MACROSOCIAL FEATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ARENA;

EID: 1842766302     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x03-138     Document Type: Review

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