Risk as a challenge in practice: Investigating climate change in water management

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-122

  Larsen, Sanne Vammen ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Actors; Climate change; Risk; River basin management plans; Water framework directive

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952040823     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0123-7     Document Type: Article

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