Does adaptive management of natural resources enhance resilience to climate change?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Tompkins, Emma L ^a   Adger, W Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Caribbean; Climate change; Community based management; Natural resource management; Social ecological resilience; Trinidad and Tobago

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESILIENCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 27444437760     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-00667-090210     Document Type: Review

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