Transcending the adaptation/mitigation climate change science policy debate: Unmasking assumptions about adaptation and resilience

Weather, Climate, and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 238-245

  Jennings, Tori L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

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EID: 84866385835     PISSN: 19488327     EISSN: 19488335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-11-00056.1     Document Type: Article

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