Vulnerability and capacity: Explaining local commitment to climate-change policy

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 544-562

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

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GIS; LOGISTICS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46849090496     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c2g     Document Type: Article

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