What influences climate information use in water management? The role of boundary organizations and governance regimes in Brazil and the U.S.

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue , 2013, Pages 6-18

  Kirchhoff, Christine J ^a   Lemos, Maria Carmen ^a   Engle, Nathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Climate variability and climate change; Integrated assessment; Integrated water resources management; IWRM; RISA; Seasonal climate forecasts

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84871716017     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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