Multi-sited resilience: The mutual construction of "local" and "global" understandings and practices of adaptation and innovation

Applied Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 112-118

  Olwig, Mette F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Development; Disaster; Ghana; Groups; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; LOCAL PLANNING;

GHANA;

EID: 82255183159     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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