Agency, capacity, and resilience to environmental change: Lessons from human development, well-being, and disasters

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 36, Issue , 2011, Pages 321-342

  Brown, Katrina ^a   Westaway, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation; adaptive capacity; psychosocial factors; transformation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; DIVERSE FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN AGENCY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; KEY FACTORS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION;

DISASTERS;

EID: 80155192371     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-052610-092905     Document Type: Article

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