Katrins, Wilma and Me: Learning to live with climate surprises?

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 76-80

  Grimm, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; FOOD PROCESSING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BIOREGIONAL ADAPTIVE CAPACITIES; CLIMATIC MODES; PRUDENT PREPARATION; QUASI STABLE STEADY STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HAZARD; HOLOCENE;

EID: 33845702195     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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