Bolstering resilience in the coconut kingdom: Improving adaptive capacity to climate change in Vanuatu

Energy Policy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 843-848

  Richmond, Noah ^a   Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a  

^a VERMONT LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF); Pacific Islands

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE POLICY; CLIMATIC HAZARDS; COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP; LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; NATIONAL LEVEL; PACIFIC ISLANDS; TOPDOWN; VANUATU;

COMMUNICATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANUATU;

EID: 84866896356     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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