Climate change, adaptive capacity and policy direction in the Canadian North: Can we learn anything from the collapse of the east coast cod fishery?

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1305-1320

  Budreau, Davin ^a   McBean, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Atlantic Canada; Climate change; Environmental change; Impacts; Northern Canada; Proactive policy; Reactive policy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GADOID FISHERY; GLOBAL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34447632340     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-006-9053-6     Document Type: Article

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