Building resilience to climate change through development assistance: USAID's climate adaptation program

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 411-421

  Furlow, John ^a   Smith, Joel B ^b   Anderson, Glen ^c   Breed, William ^a   Padgham, Jon ^d  

^a UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c International Resources Group   (United States)

^d International START Secretariat   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE; PILOT STUDIES; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECADAL VARIATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STAKEHOLDER; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 80052923715     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0127-4     Document Type: Article

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