A review of tourism and climate change as an evolving knowledge domain

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-62

  Becken, Susanne ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Co authorship; Knowledge domain; Mitigation; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872402639     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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