Planning for climate change: The security community's precautionary principle

Climatic Change

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Dabelko, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; SECURITY;

EID: 76349118756     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9639-6     Document Type: Article

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