Integrating adaptation into policy: Upscaling evidence from local to global

Climate Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 371-376

  Burton, Ian ^a   Bizikova, Livia ^b   Dickinson, Thea ^a   Howard, Yvonne ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptation modelling; Climate change; Climate policy; International negotiations; Policy formation; Scale; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 38549108134     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2007.9685662     Document Type: Article

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