Future visioning of local climate change: A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualisation

Futures

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 400-412

  Sheppard, Stephen R J ^a   Shaw, Alison ^a   Flanders, David ^a   Burch, Sarah ^a   Wiek, Arnim ^b   Carmichael, Jeff ^c   Robinson, John ^a   Cohen, Stewart ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Metro Vancouver   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; STAKEHOLDER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 79953162332     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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