Misperceptions of climate-change risk as barriers to climate-change adaptation: A case study from the Rewa Delta, Fiji

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 169-186

  Lata, Shalini ^a   Nunn, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PERCEIVED RISK; REGIONAL GOVERNMENT; RIVER DELTAS; RIVERBANK EROSION; SHORT TERM PLANNING; TRANS NATIONALS;

FLOODS; GROUNDWATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK PERCEPTION; SHORELINE; VULNERABILITY;

FIJI;

EID: 83055188487     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0062-4     Document Type: Article

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