Identifying burdens of coping with climate change: A typology of the duties of climate justice

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 746-753

  Duus Otterström, Göran ^a   Jagers, Sverker C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Burden sharing; Climate change; Justice; Mitigation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 84865720970     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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