Responses to climate change: Exploring organisational learning across internationally networked organisations for development

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 629-643

  Boyd, Emily ^a,b   Osbahr, Henny ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Development; Organisations; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960164634     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2010.505444     Document Type: Article

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