Network governance and regional resilience to climate change: Empirical evidence from mountain tourism communities in the Swiss Gotthard region

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 839-854

  Luthe, Tobias ^a   Wyss, Romano ^a   Schuckert, Markus ^b  

^a University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur   (Switzerland)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Mountain communities; Regional environmental change; Social network analysis; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869190943     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0294-5     Document Type: Article

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