Climate change, adaptation, and formal education: The role of schooling for increasing societies' adaptive capacities in El Salvador and Brazil

Ecology and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Wamsler, Christine ^a,b,c   Brink, Ebba ^a   Rentala, Oskari ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)   (United Kingdom)

^c Global Urban Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Brazil; Climate change; Coping capacity; Disaster; Education; El Salvador; Flood; Income; Informal settlement; Landslide; Risk reduction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COPING STRATEGY; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EDUCATION; INCOME; LANDSLIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BRAZIL; EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84864477813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04645-170202     Document Type: Article

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