Responding to climate and other change processes in complex contexts: Challenges facing development of adaptive policy frameworks in the Ganga Basin

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 975-986

  Moench, Marcus ^a  

^a Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET)   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive management; Climate change; Floods; Himalaya; India; Water management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ADAPTIVE POLICY; CHANGE PROCESS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DIRECT IMPACT; DYNAMIC NATURE; EMBANKMENT FAILURE; EXTREME EVENTS; GANGA BASIN; HIMALAYAS; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS; NATURAL DYNAMICS; POLICY FRAMEWORK; POLICY LEVEL; POWER SYSTEMS; VULNERABLE REGIONS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYNAMICS; EMBANKMENTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOODS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BASIN MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING STRATEGY; EMBANKMENT; FLOODING; RIVER BASIN; VULNERABILITY;

GANGES BASIN; HIMALAYAS; KOSI RIVER;

EID: 77953809483     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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