Cultural ecology: Adaptation - retrofitting a concept?

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 234-242

  Head, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Culture; Mitigation; More than climate; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 77950291615     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132509338978     Document Type: Article

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