Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?

Climatic Change

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 335-354

  Adger, W Neil ^a   Dessai, Suraje ^b   Goulden, Marisa ^c   Hulme, Mike ^a   Lorenzoni, Irene ^a   Nelson, Donald R ^d   Naess, Lars Otto ^a   Wolf, Johanna ^a   Wreford, Anita ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ADAPTATION NEEDS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; POLITICAL SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 62949190925     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9520-z     Document Type: Review

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