Adaptation to climate change-related risks in Dutch urban areas: Stimuli and barriers

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 777-790

  Runhaar, Hens ^a   Mees, Heleen ^a   Wardekker, Arjan ^a   van der Sluijs, Jeroen ^a   Driessen, Peter P J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Flooding; Heat stress; Risk; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869189888     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0292-7     Document Type: Article

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