A spatial analysis of local climate change policy in the United States: Risk, stress, and opportunity

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-41

  Brody, Samuel D ^a   Zahran, Sammy ^b   Grover, Himanshu ^a   Vedlitz, Arnold ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

CCP; Climate change; Climate change risk; Climate change stress; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; CITIES FOR CLIMATE PROTECTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS; DECISION MAKERS; ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MITIGATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45449108396     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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