Understanding adaptation: What can social capital offer assessments of adaptive capacity?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 308-319

  Pelling, Mark ^a   High, Chris ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Community; Social capital; Social organisation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 27744523506     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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