Integrating climate change adaptation into public health practice: Using adaptive management to increase adaptive capacity and build resilience

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-179

  Hess, Jeremy J ^a,b,c   McDowell, Julia Z ^a,b   Luber, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Climate change; Climate change adaptation; Public health; Public health administration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; MANAGEMENT STYLE; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EID: 84856722483     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103515     Document Type: Review

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