Assessing community vulnerability: A study of the mountain pine beetle outbreak in British Columbia, Canada

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 460-471

  Parkins, John R ^a   MacKendrick, Norah A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Community capacity; Community vulnerability; Mountain pine beetle; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PEST OUTBREAK; RISK FACTOR; RISK PERCEPTION; VULNERABILITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 34548526648     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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