Hard and soft paths for climate change adaptation

Climate Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1177-1183

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptation paths; Climate policy; Development paths; Low carbon society; Maldives

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY;

MALDIVES;

EID: 79959987799     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2011.579315     Document Type: Article

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