Public responses to climate change: The role of deliberation in building capacity for adaptive action

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 957-971

  Hobson, Kersty ^a   Niemeyer, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Deliberation; Q methodology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LEADERSHIP; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PUBLIC SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79960068434     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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