Responding to environmental change: A new age for human geography?

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 542-549

  O'Brien, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

climate change; global environmental change; human dimensions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 79955632768     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132510377573     Document Type: Article

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