How can urban centers adapt to climate change with ineffective or unrepresentative local governments?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 767-776

  Satterthwaite, David ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INVESTMENTS;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOW INCOMES; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CENTERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 80052197526     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.136     Document Type: Article

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