The role of institutions in the transformation of coping capacity to sustainable adaptive capacity

Environmental Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-100

  Berman, Rachel ^a   Quinn, Claire ^a   Paavola, Jouni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Institutions; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860994426     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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