Responding to bushfire risk: The need for transformative adaptation

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Oneill, Saffron J ^a   Handmer, John ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate change; emergency management; evidence based policy; transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857941118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014018     Document Type: Article

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