Adaptation to climate variability and change: What is optimal and appropriate?

Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Socio-economic Perspectives of Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 32-52

  Klein, Richard J T ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 23844504035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781950258.000013     Document Type: Chapter

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