Examining locally driven climate change policy efforts in three Pacific states

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 415-426

  Tang, Zhenghong ^a   Brody, Samuel D ^b   Li, Ruopu ^c   Quinn, Courtney ^c   Zhao, Nan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; DECISION MODELS; LOCAL CLIMATE; LOCAL COMMUNITY; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; POPULATION DENSITIES; REGRESSION MODEL; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WASHINGTON;

CLIMATE MODELS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GIS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MITIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CALIFORNIA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 79953284811     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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